English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL

Take one hand-held while showing "how to" in real life, with people listening, it leads to 'accidents' as illustrated:
1) Gun emplacement clipped
2) Slight change of zoom ratio leading to inability to correct the stitching process
3) Did not correct the exposure on that shot
4) General comments:
The vertical alignment was shot in 4,5 and 7
Exposure goes from light to dark and left uncorrected

Conditions:
Overcast changing, hazy
Time: 16:01 (first camera time stamp) to 16:12 (last camera time stamp)

Equipment:
Nikon D300
18~200

Settings:
ISO 200, Fixed
Aperture: F:11, Fixed
Speed: from 1/125* to 1/320
Focal point: Variable

Panorama specifics:
Vantage is same as the top of the wall
1 horizontal band
9 pictures
Hand-held
Camera is on it's vertical side

Corrections:
Pay attention:
- I should have used the camera internal grid as vertical clue, I did not.
- I should have checked the zoom ration as I know it is loose at times. I did not.
Take one panorama quickly to avoid all this, before or after explaining how to.

* This is the picture that lead to comment #3, should have been 1/200. This was likely caused by a change of location when metering (used the red bricks).

Note: While not intended as such this is also a DOF picture stacking when if comes to extending a depth of field.

Reference as seen with a 22mm zoom setting


Panorama, emulates a 39mm due to gun clipping

nikon_jon Loc: Northeast Arkansas

I never had much interest in panoramas. My question is, "Where is the old fort?" Looks a little like Fort Gains on Dauphin island in Mobile bay.

ole sarg Loc: south florida

I use my Canon G10 for panorama. I just follow the directions. Set the camera to stitch, start at the left and move to the right using same focal length. Shot the Manhattan skyline from NJ and had no trouble. The camera and the computer matched things up.

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

Never had a problem with panoramas. Like nikon_jon, the flavor is lost before the gum is chewed; after I'd done a number of them, lost interest.

English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL

1) Fort Pickens, Pensacola, FL
2) It is an acquired taste, mostly for landscape photographers

pfredd

Oh, what is so rare as the confessions of a good photographer?
May I add two from my secret vault. I anger myself with any change in camera settings during the shot series, such as leaving any on 'auto'.
Second - the scene: oblique shot from high with town streets crossing the frames - The problem: neither I nor any stitching software could get vertical alignment of streets after hours of manipulation. Solution : click on "remove lens distortion" box,,,,, DUHH.

Iowegan

My first attempt of a panorama, was on the bank of a river, the "downtown" area of the city across the horizon.

Problems were:

#1 I didn't have a tripod, handheld.
#2 On the immediate left, was a structure, that I wanted to include in the panorama.
#3 On the right side, a small tree had twigs clearly in my FOV.
#4 I held the camera in landscape instead of portrait.


PSE 8 did a wonderful job of stitching the stack of images together. It was "almost" flawless, almost.

However, that structure on the left, coupled with my using landscape, forced the remainder of the stack to appear very, very small by comparison.
The twigs on the right side, showed in the composite, and the twigs were not contiguous. They were broken up, part here, part there.

I learned a few things from that!

I know there was much more to pick at, but these were the glaringly obvious, most distracting parts.

We learn, and move on.