Tokyo Panorama

[ClosetOtaku]

Since my first trip to Tokyo, I'd thought about trying to get a panorama picture of the city. However, I couldn't find any in Japan, and didn't see one online that caught my interest (or looked like the one in the opening to Witch Hunter Robin). So, on my latest trip in November, I decided to try to make my own.

Here is the result... not great, but I learned a lot from the experience. The view is from the Rainbow Bridge looking North over Tokyo Bay. The composite images are from a Canon PowerShot S50. The picture itself was composed by Adobe Photoshop Elements using the Photomerge function.

Some lessons:

I didn't use a tripod. That was a serious mistake. Because of my positioning, I lost an entire segment of the view on the extreme right of the image (it basically curved out of the frame when the whole image was assembled).

I was surprised to find just how much the Rainbow Bridge vibrates. I couldn't dampen it even by resting my arms on the structure (another good reason to have a tripod). As a result, I'm sure that some of the individual images are not as clear as they could be.

There's some variation in the sky color between images - any of you digital photo pros know (a) what the origin is of that and (b) how to compensate for it across images in Photoshop?

Since it was my last day and I didn't want to miss my flight, I didn't walk to the uppermost part of the bridge, so the perspective is again a little off. (Unfortunately, it was also the only halfway decent weather day during my stay.)

I'm hoping to get another chance in April, and if the result is any better, I'll post it as well. This time, I'm takin' a tripod...

[Jeikobu]

Wow, awesome picture. *drools as he longs to move to Nihon*

[bigsleepj]

Cool! The photo looks very good and clear...and very panoramic

Edit - This post won me the CAA Least Intelligent Post in a Non-Goof-Off Catagory Award.

[Sync]

getting 404'd :x

[ClosetOtaku]

getting 404'd :x

Yes, site appeared to be down for a while, now back up. I guess Speakeasy is not as bulletproof as they claim to be...

[LorentzForce]

It looks... beautiful...

I want to go to Tokyo now. >_<

[Fsiphskilm]

that is so fre

[termyt]

I really don't have anything insightful to say since I've never used photoshop. Normally I wouldn't post in such a cercumstance, but I hope you continue trying and share your results with us.

[Yeshua-Knight]

actually, aside from the occasional discoloration, it kinda looks as though you were so high up in the air that it was following the curvature of the earth, it looks really cool that way