Panorama Fun

The Downtown Athens skyline at sunset in a multiple exposure panorama as seen on Thursday, January 8, 2009.

So i was commissioned to do a panorama of the downtown skyline. This was one of my test shots and one of the better results IMO. It was created through photostitch and works well. Probably better then what i ended up shooting from in the first place.

Some of my problems that i ran into:

- Size of buildings in the shot. Do we want them small or big?

- Horizon line & lens curvature at varying focal lengths. Due to the inherent curvature of camera lenses, it made it difficult to create a straight horizon at 24mm and still line up the buildings correctly.

- Swarms of mosquitos. Apparently Mosquitos love to live on the rooftops of 10+ story buildings.

So overall, you have to think about your end product as well as time of day. I went out and did this test shot at a good time because i had the time. Where does the sun hit the buildings, etc.

I'll probably do some more in the future but its very aggravating at times.