Not very proud of this pano but it provides me with several lessons of what not to do in the future. Been sitting on this for a week hoping it would spontaneously improve but it hasn't. So thought I would share it despite its warts.
This panorama was shot with a Sony digital camera and Kaidan head near the end of Picnic Point out in Lake Mendota in Madison Wisconsin. Picnic Point is a popular walk from the west end of the University of Wisconsin campus. From the Point you can see the downtown area, the State Capitol, and the University campus. The pano starts zoomed in on the State Capitol.
[1] On Sunday the 21st at 1 p.m. the low winter sun was shining through a thin overcast providing a tremendous glare off the water to the south of the point. This was so bad (and since I had borrowed the camera and didn't know how to compensate) 3 of the 24 pictures are burned out and unusable - hence the pano is 315°ree; and not complete. Of course 10 minutes after I had packed up the sun disappeared behind a cloud and the lighting became much more even.
[2] The Madison skyline which is so nice from Picnic Point in reality is much too fine a feature for the digital resolution of this camera - the trees and rocks behind me show up beautifully.
The panorama was stitched (after some remedial Photoshop work) with the Authoring Studio which works wonderfully.
