By Vladimir Brezina
Adobe Photoshop certainly makes nice panoramas. Here’s a 180-degree panorama of NYC’s frozen Central Park Reservoir, stitched together from 10 individual photos.
I haven’t posted many panoramas on Wind Against Current, because the results have always seemed unsatisfactory. The panoramas are long and narrow, and so unimpressive when wedged into the 500-pixel width of our page. You can always click on the panorama to expand it (try it on the panorama above), but even so…
How about presenting the panorama this way?
All you have to do is rotate your device 90 degrees, and scroll through ;-)
Maybe this will start a trend—but I wouldn’t count on it. :-)
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
They make GREAT header photos.
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They do! We have 8 header photos that appear randomly. But they are not panoramas, but rather just thin slices from single photos.
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That’s a beautiful panorama, I’d really love to visit New York one day and experience it first-hand!
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You definitely should—there is much to see! :-)
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As I scrolled through the long version of your panorama I began to feel as if I were moving in a slow spin, catching the view from one side to the other. Best to view it horizontally on a big screen to avoid Getty dizzy :-)
Beautiful photo!
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Indeed! I did not mean the rotation thing all that seriously (although people with phones can perform it easily). Best to view it the normal way but on the biggest screen possible!
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Full screen or scrolling through – either way, beautiful!
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This is fantastic! It’s something I have yet to try, but I really must now that I see your result here! Love your creative presentation idea — I’m all for rotating devices 😀
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You definitely should try it! Now that I think about it, I should have done a 360-degree panorama rather than a 180-degree one :-)
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On my list, Vlad :)
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Nice pano. A challenge viewing this on my side. Thanks for putting it together and posting it.
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Rotating the viewer is another possibility that I did not include :-)
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Love this photo(s). Go ahead, start a trend. Thanks for sharing
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Unfortunately starting a trend can’t be done alone :-)
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Agreed. So, instead of a trend just be unique as you already are in so many ways.
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WONDERFUL! A must try.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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Do! Panoramas are easy if you have the software for it…
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I bet everyone scrolling down with a smile on the face… ;-) Helen
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I hope so! :-)
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Woweee. Wow. I am certainly impressed with your panorama skills. They are sort of a hit and miss, hard to get a good one, but you get a good one when you least expect it – after some work of course ;) Well done :)
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It’s easy, at least in Photoshop. The problem is that, unless you use a tripod, it’s hard to capture all the individual shots in the same way, for instance with the horizon at the same place in the photo. Photoshop still makes a good panorama, but with irritating fringes that you have to crop away, so losing some of the vertical dimension of the panorama…
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I generally use my phone for panoramas since I don’t have a tripod (someday). The dimensions come out okay and sizeable, but the quality most of the time is hideous :D
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I haven’t tried panoramas with my phone. In fact, I don’t use my phone to take photos of any kind, as the quality is not as good. But I see that it has been improving in recent years, catching up fast…
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I’ll admit I’ve captured some fairly decent photos with my Samsung phone. But I very rarely use that – always prefer a point-and-shoot over a smartphone camera. Anytime, any day.
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Beautiful. And, I salute your patience!
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No patience needed—it’s all automatic :-)
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No, no – you set up the shots, yes, and you make all the selections for Photomerge (or similar) don’t you?! – I salute your eye & skill then :smile:
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Nice, I can perfectly see it with my mobile, thanks for sharing.
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Yes, rotating phones and tablets is easy; not so much laptop and larger screens…
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Tres gorgeous! Did it take a long time?
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Not at all—after capturing the individual photos, just a minute or two in Photoshop, and that mostly automatic…
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My humble opinion:
I clicked on the small panorama, and I thought the result was wonderful and worth your time (well, I don’t really know how much time you spent!) The whole scene with the paths and trees framing each side of the huge cityscape certainly gave the feeling of immense size which could not have been captured any other way!
The scroll down was fun to look at but…not really a panorama because the entire photo could not be viewed at the same time!
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No time spent at all… Yes, the rotating idea was mostly tongue-in-cheek, although it works well on phones and tablets…
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Please do more of these! I’d just been reading about chinese scroll paintings that were made to be viewed slowly one bit at a time as the image was gradually unfurled. It’s a totally different way of seeing and something really worth doing. I love it and hope others will take up the idea as well. I read mostly on a phone or tablet so rotating is easy and a natural thing to do. Wow!
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The Chinese scroll comparison is very interesting, thanks!!
I’ve posted a few panoramas before, such as this one:
but I’ll do more :-)
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awesome!
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Thanks!!
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Anyway your panorama is very beautiful indeed :-)
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Thank you, Hanna! :-)
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Dapple Grey’s comment is interesting and reflects my experience of vowing the second photo. And Wow, so very cold it looks!
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I’ll have to look at Chinese scrolls a bit more :-)
Cold: below freezing, but by no means Canadian, or even upstate New York, weather…
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It has been so cold up there, that I am not surprised it is frozen. What a beautiful picture.
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The Reservoir freezes for a spell pretty much every winter. It’s still, fresh water, so it takes just a few cold days and nights…
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Wow!! :)
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:-)
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Panoramic photos make me marvel at God’s creation of the eyes (and the heart) that are able to absorb such a panorama in an instant, when physically present :-)
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Indeed—even panoramas don’t do the real thing justice…
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Er-er-em. It’s gorgeous, but my neck hurts!
Rotate device? Oh heck!
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Rotating the viewer might be easier :-)
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Nice!
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Thanks, Colline!
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Great panorama…
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Thanks!!
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Wow indeed!!! :-)
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:-) Thank you, Madhu!!!!
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