That being said, I love how vertoramas look when they are printed. Have you found yourself scrolling a lot in this article, and maybe not even seeing the whole images? You can turn your phone sideways, but you’re still missing the scale of the shot. ![]() When so much of what we view is on a horizontal screen, it’s hard to see their full beauty. Sometimes I look at vertoramas and I think they have no place in our digital world. Plus it has the fun Little World projection that helps make those funky, little world images.īoth programs are run just as they would be for a horizontal panorama. There are a number of projections that can help with vertoramas, including Hammer. If you are looking for a little more power, try AutoPano Giga by Kolor (now owned by GoPro). Where it comes up short is in the variety projections. So does the same feature in Photoshop proper, maybe 80% of the time. ![]() I find more and more that the PhotoMerge -> Panorama feature in Adobe Lightroom works just fine for vertoramas. I shoot landscape orientation (camera in horizontal position) for almost all of my vertoramas, in order to have enough space to crop. In which case, give yourself plenty of room at the bottom of the image as that will be your constriction point when you go to crop. Roughly.īut a vertorama often has a subject leading away from it and this can cause distortion.Can you imagine the truck of this redwood tree being much closer than the 200 foot tall top? This is fundamentally different than panoramas, because for the most part, panoramas have a roughly equal distance from the camera to all parts of the scene. Where it gets a little trickier is in the distance of your subject. The settings are the same for vertical panos, but you need to make sure you can pan all the way up with your subject, which is sometimes hard to do with a tripod. First, if you need help with panoramas, dPS writer Barry J Brady has a good article on them here: How to Shoot Panoramic Photos. Shooting vertoramas is not much different than shooting panoramas, but there are some important considerations. Waterfalls, statues, buildings, trees, landscapes…they are all ripe for the format. ![]() Shot inside the amazing Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris. In this case I used my iPhone’s panorama mode, turned the phone sideways, and kept panning up and up, and then back over the top of my head (flexibility is a key with this format!) to show the grandeur of the structure. Vertoramas are also used to emphasize the enormity of an area. This view of a temple in Bhutan is such a location, as I was on a balcony with subjects below and certainly above. I pick subjects where my vantage point gives me something above and below a level view of the subject. Tall things are the obvious choice for making vertical panoramas, but also look at your normal images to see what can be included in the foreground.įor instance, this view of Mount Lassen in Lassen Volcanic National Park is pretty enough.īut what else is going on in the foreground? And not just the foreground, but the extreme foreground?Ī Vertorama can take your normal landscape image and give it depth, like this image of Delicate Arch in Utah. They are a great option when you don’t have a super-wide angle lens, or you want to capture more detail than that wide angle lens will provide in one shot. ![]() They are as simple as two shots combined to capture more foreground, or a chance to capture the tallest of the tall things on the planet without a wide-angle lens. It is for the tall things of the world, and uses much of the same techniques as a panorama, but with some important considerations I’ll touch on later in this article. What are vertoramas?Ī vertorama is simply a panorama, but shot vertically. Some of it climbs up and up! For those images you need to learn a new technique vertical panoramas, or vertoramas as they are known. Redwood trees. Not all the world fits into our horizontal frame of it.
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