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Comment by Michael Rothon on August 15, 2012 at 5:19am

A labour of love! Nice work and thanks for sharing your technique. M

Comment by Mark Duncan on August 14, 2012 at 8:20pm

Wow, a 19-way stitch! Well done!

Comment by Heinrich Mergel on August 14, 2012 at 8:18pm

One more thing, I focused manually and kept the same focus for all photos.

Thanks for you time guys.

Comment by Heinrich Mergel on August 14, 2012 at 8:16pm

You are too kind, Sandy. After all there is not much effort behind it :)

Mary, I'll try to describe how I did it. My camera does not support panorama stitching, thus I had to take all pictures myself. You have to use the same focal length for all shots. I had a 50mm prime lens attached so this part was easy :) Then you have to make sure that all pictures are equally exposed. Point your camera at a subject that should have the right exposure (Eiffel tower in my case) press the shutter half down and remember the settings (I've preset the ISO 100 and F/8, camera automatic set shutterspeed to 1/200s... it depends on the subject what to choose). Then set your camera to manual mode and select the remembered settings. Then you take a series of overlapping shots (they should overlapp by approx. 1/3). That's it. At home you just feed an application with your shots and it does the rest for you. I used photoshop but there are way better tools for photostitching out there.

Comment by Mary Asher on August 14, 2012 at 11:59am

Breathtaking.  What did you do to erase the stitching effect?  Is it done in camera or through Photoshop?  Could you start a forum instructing how this was done?

Comment by Sandeep S Rajan on August 14, 2012 at 9:06am

ooh wow...thats a fantastic job !! well done ...well done indeed. My POTD    !

Comment by Heinrich Mergel on August 14, 2012 at 8:30am

Cheers! It is a stich of 19 photos.

Comment by Sandeep S Rajan on August 14, 2012 at 8:28am

breath-taking !! Is it an in camera Pan or a one stitched up ??