Last week I flew to Porto (Portugal). I heard very often about this city and saw a broadcast on television about it. That’s why I was very interested to visit Porto.
Porto is a very old and beautiful city. You get a real feeling that you are somewhere far away from home, here. Here everything is different. This is true both for the architecture, as well as for people and their customs. If I go to Luxembourg or to Strasbourg, I get feeling to be not in Germany only by the signs in French. Even if I am in Barcelona, I see an ordinary European city, although its highlights such as Gaudi buildings, but hardly provides a special mood.
Of course I wanted to save my feelings with help of my digital camera. Fortunately, I had my tripod with me and that’s why I was able, to take panoramic pictures. Here I went as usual, I positioned the camera horizontally and made 5 images from left to right.
When I was finally at home, I joined with help of Photoshop all of these 5 images to one image. This worked wonderfully well, except for a little bug, because of the difference in focus. The biggest disappointment was that the resulting picture in relation to height, was too broad. If you see it, you got the feeling of incompleteness, you waiting intuitively for the compleating of the loading. But the image was already loaded.
I wanted to do something to correct my mistake, so I could avoid in future such strip-effects on panoramic images and I searched for the solution. I found out that this problem is actually very easy to deal, you need only to install the camera on a tripod not horizontal, but in vertical position. The images will have so a bigger height and the strip effect will be avoided.
