In this quick tutorial we are going to talk about creating a super wide angled panoramic image by shooting multiple photos and combining them into one.
“Sometimes you’re in a wide-angle photo and the lens you have just isn’t quite wide enough to capture the whole strand with some practice you can take multiple overlapping photos with almost any lens to make a super wide angle high-resolution panoramic. In a perfect world you’ll use a tripod for the panoramic head on, like the middle ninja or an automatic system like the GigaPan. But the reality is you’re probably out in about shooting other pictures with your DSLR and won’t have any of that hardware with you.”
“There are a few things you need to do every time you make a multi shot panoramic image if you’re going to be combining multiple photos you have to be consistent in both. If one frame is darker or has a different focal plane than the others – the whole thing is going to be messed up. When taking the pictures you can hold your camera either horizontally or vertically. I prefer to shoot vertically because then I get more space on the top.”
“we’re also want an overlap each frame about a third of the way into the next, so keep an eye on the edges of your picture as you move from frame to frame. This last part is super important – what you want to do when you’re taking the pictures is rotate the camera aroun what’s called the “nodal point” which is roughly around the middle of the lens.”
“What’s going to happen is you’ll find that your stitch works much better you’ll have a lot more space to play with on your crop damage at the end. After the images have been shot you can use a lot of different stitching software to put them all together. I like PhotoMerge which is built into Photoshop. If I’m going to shoot a lot of images than that I’ll usually use the GigaPan hardware and their software as well. After I’ve combined them all then I’ll bring them to Photoshop and do any final touchups to make the image really how I want it. At the end of the day creating one of these high-res panoramas is really half science and half art.”
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