Ålesund Mosaics

Mosaic Panoramic View of Ålesund City Center

As I was post-processing my photos from our trip to Ålesund, I wanted to experiment and made this mosaic panoramic view of Ålesund City Center. I combined 10 different photos that were shot with different settings at different times – some day shots, some night shots. They were all shot from the same balcony, but the camera wasn’t in a fixed position.

Ålesund Mosaics (click to see large version)

If one wants a perfect result on a mosaic like this, it takes some planning before shooting: the camera should be on a tripod, you should use a number of fixed positions (for example 3 steps to get a panorama), the ISO should be the same on all shots and also the focal length. Since I didn’t plan this at all, but just wanted to experiment and have fun with the photos that I had available, I can reveal to you that if you’re looking for perfection in this mosaic, you’ll find a lot of errors like parts that are skewed, repeating tiles, weird geometry etc, etc. These are the settings for the different shots: 

• 5,0 sec at f/22, ISO100 / 24mm
• 1/30 sec at f/16, ISO 200 / 24mm
• 1/25 sec at f/16, ISO200 / 47mm
• 1/40 sec at f16, ISO200 /24mm
• 30,0 sec at f/11, ISO100 / 24mm
• 1/10 sec at f/11, ISO100 / 45mm
• 0,4 sec at f/22, ISO100 / 99mm
• 1/6 sec at f/22, ISO100 / 80mm
• 1/13 sec at f/14, ISO400 / 24mm
• 0,3 sec at f/22, ISO100 / 24mm

Here’s a gallery with some other Ålesund photos: Panoramic, HDR and Panoramic HDR.

Fake HDR, using two files.

Ålesund, HDR

Ålesund, HDR

Panoramic shot of city streets.

HDR and panoramic.

This was my entry for WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue.