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<blockquote data-quote="Ranie" data-source="post: 9998" data-attributes="member: 2495">Jdeg - I took that with the 50 because that's the only lens I brought yesterday. Actually, I planned to shoot candles and some candle workers in a small candle factory near our place. I choose to use the 50 for some bokeh and low light shots. Unfortunately, the candle factory closed already. Going home, I passed by this church. Actually, it was the Hummer that attracted my attention. I wanted to frame the Hummer and the church together, but I'm limited with the focal length of the 50, so there I decided to make a Ventorama. I tried making Ventorama with a wide angle lens before and had a hard time fixing distortions. This is the first time I used the 50 and the distortion is not that much. Helene - I used PTGui (<a href="http://www.ptgui.com/" target="_blank">Photo stitching software 360 degree Panorama image software - PTGui</a>) as recommended by the people on the Vertorama group in Flickr. (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/vertoramas/" target="_blank">Flickr: Vertoramas</a>). I still have a lot to learn how to fully utilize this program. It even has HDR capability which I have not tried yet. Minor straightening and distortion correction was done thru Photoshop CS3.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ranie, post: 9998, member: 2495"] Jdeg - I took that with the 50 because that's the only lens I brought yesterday. Actually, I planned to shoot candles and some candle workers in a small candle factory near our place. I choose to use the 50 for some bokeh and low light shots. Unfortunately, the candle factory closed already. Going home, I passed by this church. Actually, it was the Hummer that attracted my attention. I wanted to frame the Hummer and the church together, but I'm limited with the focal length of the 50, so there I decided to make a Ventorama. I tried making Ventorama with a wide angle lens before and had a hard time fixing distortions. This is the first time I used the 50 and the distortion is not that much. Helene - I used PTGui ([URL="http://www.ptgui.com/"]Photo stitching software 360 degree Panorama image software - PTGui[/URL]) as recommended by the people on the Vertorama group in Flickr. ([URL="http://www.flickr.com/groups/vertoramas/"]Flickr: Vertoramas[/URL]). I still have a lot to learn how to fully utilize this program. It even has HDR capability which I have not tried yet. Minor straightening and distortion correction was done thru Photoshop CS3. [/QUOTE]

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