Photo Contest - Panorama (3/31-4/6)

[ZapperZ]

Panorama

Most of our smartphones and cameras have the ability to allow us to take a panoramic shot, often by simply scanning and moving our devices. So, for this contest, show us your best or favorite panorama shots. These panorama photos may be taken with the help of your devices, or it may be a result of photo-stitching using an app or software.

For this contest alone, the size restriction will not be enforced in terms of pixel size. However, please note that the forum has a 3 MB limit on file size for uploading.Contest Rules:

1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.

2. Please resize your digital photo to no more than 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. You are also allowed to adjust the brightness and contrast of your picture but these should not dramatically alter the look of the picture. But other than those, any form of picture editing or modification is not allowed. This is a photo contest, not a picture editing/special effect contest. You may add a watermark or your name/nickname to the photo for identification purposes.

3. Upload your photos to any of the photo servers such as imageshack or photobucket. Then post it the relevant contest thread and link your picture using the img command. PM me if you do not know how. Alternatively, you may simply upload your image file to PF, and then have the full image displayed in your post.

4. Only ONE picture per member per contest. Once a picture is posted, it cannot be changed other than a total withdrawl by that member from that week's photo contest. Exceptions will be made for modification to comply with the rules, such as resizing.

5. At the end of the contest period, I will open a poll and every PF member can vote for the picture they like best.

6. Note that in case we have a large number of entries, I will do the polling in more than one thread. If that's the case, you can vote in each of the polling threads. The photos will be assigned in the polling threads in the order they were submitted.

7. The photo of the subject must be something that you took directly, not via in intermediary medium, and not taken by someone else. Unless otherwise noted, a photo of another photo, painting, print, etc. does not qualify.

8. You can use a picture only once. Once it is used in a contest, it cannot be reused in another contest.

9. Please post only pictures meant for submission in this thread. Photos not meant for submission must not be posted in the contest thread. Posting of more than one photos by a member may result in an automatic disqualification from the week's contest.

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[BillTre]

Cool, I like doing these kinds of pictures.
This is a montague of 30+ pictures I took at a small river going into the Pacific in Washington state to the west of the Olympic peninsula forest.
I call it "Log Pile".
In phtoshop, it was 2 GB. A strait jpg of it is 95 MB. This is a mini-version of 355 kb.
In the bigger versions, you can zoom in and see a kid on the beach with a ball.
I figure the logs either got hung up and snagged out of the flow or as the river's path widened the flow dropped and the logs "precipitated out" in some way.

 

[phinds]

panorama of Manhattan shot from New Jersey. I cut it down to half size to upload but the forum apparently throws away 90% of it so it's shown here at about 10% of my half-size reduction, so this is 5% of full size. At full size you can read signs, see cars, etc.

later edit: FULL SIZE -> www.phinds.com/manhattan/

 

[Janus]

Taken from the midpoint of the Golden Gate bridge.

 

[Borek]

Sadly, due to technical limitations forum software rescales every picture so that what we can see is just a sad reflection of the original image.

I am afraid the only way of making this reasonable is to post images AND link to the image hosted elsewhere (check this old post to see what I mean).

 

[DennisN]

Harbour at night.

A larger resolution photo is here (4000 x 941 pixels).

 

[Wrichik Basu]

At Parashuram Kund, Arunachal Pradesh, India:

The large rock that you see in front of the mountain at the back, is supposed to be the axe of Parashuram, who was a avatar of Lord Vishnu as per mythology. Before returning to heavens, he left his axe here.

 

[Andy Resnick]

This was an interesting exercise to assemble; it consists of (IIRC) 20 frames taken with a rectilinear wide-angle lens, Hugin (the stitching software) had a hard time dealing with the projection: you can see small discontinuities in the horizon line.

Full size is here:

https://resnicklab.wordpress.com/astrophotography/deep-sky-objects/#jp-carousel-1761

 

[Rubidium_71]

I love panoramic photos, so I hope that the Panorama-rama theme becomes a regular event. :)

 

[ZapperZ]

Full rainbow over the city of Miami.

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[ZapperZ]

Final day to submit your panoramic photo for this contest.

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[DennisN]

Full rainbow over the city of Miami.

Am I seeing a very faint second rainbow too in the photo, or are my eyes deceiving me?

 

[ZapperZ]

Am I seeing a very faint second rainbow too in the photo, or are my eyes deceiving me?

There is. Double rainbows are not that easy to see (I've only seen it very clearly for the entire arc only once before). So this was unusual.

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