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High Resolution Panoramas

Having grown up in a small town in a country full of mountains I got used to having view in front of my eyes. Only when I moved into large cities I realised what that meant and how it felt looking at the wall oft the neighbour’a building. So I chose to live, whenever possible in the higher floors. In Paris I was living in the 9th floor getting a beautiful view over the south of the city with the Gare de Lion and it’s clock tower (tate clock often stopped) Unfortunately my photo hobby had not yet kicked in then and so no good shots exist of that scenery. In Tokyo I moved to an apartment in the 32 floor that gives me a fantastic 180 degrees view over the the city with the mount Fuji as a backdrop. I can see wonderfull sceneries in the sky and dramatic sunsets. But even so I always have an urge where ever I go to climb a hill, a tower or mountain to get vantage point view of the world below. For long time I tried to a capture the scenery with wide angle lenses but I was never satisfied with the detail. At some point I started assembling wide angle photos from several shots and also wide angle panoramas. I don’t use Photoshop but have found with Hugin, an open source panorama stitcher an excellent tool for it. http://hugin.sourceforge.net. Trial and error has produced some good results but it is essential to be very careful when taking the pictures. More than not the results were disappointing because of a mistake forgetting to set the camera to manual mode or by missing a bit in the panorama. I recently found a nice tutorial by Nasim Mansurov: http://photographylife.com/panoramic-photography-howto
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    December 31st, 2010 in the mount Aso range in Kumamoto-ken, Japan. In the distance the peak of the mount Nakadake the current active volcano. It lies in the center of a huge caldera of 18 x 25 km, the largest one on earth. That was an active volcano from some 300,000 to 90,000 yes ago. The panorama is  stitched with Hugin from 5 handheld portrait shots taken at 24mm. I took them at ISO 100  f11 using the EF24-125 and the original Canon 5D. This is the version of 2019.
    August 10th, 2010, 07:37. An early moring in Cape Town climbing up the slopes towards Signal Hill. A fantastic view over the  city with the football stadium to the left, VA Waterfront center,  the harber and the business buildings to the right. Stitched from 5 portrait shots using Hugin. Taken at 32 mm , f 8, 1/125 320 ASA, using the EF 24-125 and the original Canon 5D. Version 2010
    Panoramic view of Shirataniunsaikai 白谷雲水峡. in Yakushima in the South of Japan. It was difficult to get a free view from this popular place and so I had to settle for 4 landscape shots. Version 2019