Panorama of Istanbul, seen from the Topkapi Palace (looking to the West)

seen from Topkapi, view of the old centre, with Golden Horn to the

right and the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia to the left. The Marmara

Sea is behind the viewer, with Bosphorus also behind, to the right.

 

Maria

The transitions are very obvious. Can be cleaned up in Photoshop

You know, although one can easily see the seams of your mosaic, it doesn't bother me all that much. Kinda reminds of days past when I used to tape together multiple photos of a pano and hang them on my wall. Absolutely beautiful sky hues as it changes to all shades of blue and purple. You've shown that Istanbul is indeed a gorgeous place to be.

...(unless of course you already have). By setting the camera in full manual mode and keeping the exposure the same for all the shots that will make up the panorama, you should get more consistent color transitions between individual shots. You'll have to take several meter readings and figure an average of them to avoid blowing out highlights or overdarkening the shadows, but with a little practice it's not difficult and you can fine-tune it in photoshop if you need to. This is not a bad reconstruction despite the obvious transitions, but I might also suggest using a somewhat smaller aperture (larger fstop number) to increase the DOF, this should make the transitions even less noticable since they should turn out a little more evenly focused. Good luck Maria! James

Hi,

 

thanks for the comment and sorry for the delay in answering.

 

Well, the main problem is that usually at the left the sky is much darker than on the right in the photos. I tried play with the curves as much as I could (in the other Istanbul panorama is better), and of course took the middle of the overlapping part. It depends of course on where was the sun, as it can be seen on the Salzburg panorama - one separation is visible, the other is not.

 

thanks again for the time to comment

Maria

Thanks a lot for your kind comment!

 

Maria

hi James,

 

thanks for the visit, the comment and the kind advices.

 

No, I did not try yet that for panorama photos. I guess I should, since the panorama photos I am doing are better than the other ones; obviously in eye level photos I put too much detail and it is not clear which is really the subject. Panorama gives some distance.

 

thanks again

Maria