Lee Greatorex Photo/3D blog

Here are some panoramas from my recent trip to Madeira, a really nice island off the Moroccan coast.

These were stitched in PS and taken with a 35mm 1.8 on a D7000 (lens distortion removed before stitching in Lightroom).

Click the images for a larger view!

These are quite narrow due to taking them Landscape at the time (they needed to be taken pretty quickly as it was windy up the peaks so not too much time to think. Hope you like them anyway!

I bought Lightroom 4 on the way back from the trip, just waiting for the postal delivery (got it retail, cheap on amazon at the moment). I'll give it a full test and review as soon as I get it. I've been using lightroom since 1.4 and have enjoyed using it since, I'll be testing the other shots taken in Madeira with it.

Only just got photoshop back on this PC so I stitched a few shots I took last year together (around august/sept time) at Crosshaven, County Cork. I only had my 50mm with me so I had to rely on stitching about 4-5 images together which can be troublesome but these came out ok.

A couple of shots from the last trip to Lisbon. 50mm (click for full view)

Second time in Cobh, some more shots done. Still working on the colour panorama of the town (black and white HDR is a few posts below). (click for full view as always)




Below is a photo of the Cathedral again done with 2 images. This time for stitching just tried Photoshop's (CS3) photo merger. It worked pretty well. To find it go to File> Automate > Photomerge. Seems to handle photos well and is a lot more straight forward than normal stitching programs although you get much more control in those. A mix of the 2 is ideal,

Some of the sights around Cobh (this place was the Titanic's final stop before embarking and crashing).


Below is a test HDR B+W Panorama. I used free stitching software Hugin to put it together (from 5 images). I am working on the full colour one at the moment but just wanted to test the software. Click to see an enlarged version.



Filters used: Circular Polariser, ND8 Grad + Neutral grey ND 8 Cokin filters