panorama merge post processing differences
Aug 9, 2017 14:53:00 #
claytonfm wrote:
The best pano software, bar none is Panorama Factory, panoramafactory.com. Have used it for years.
What other pano software have you tried?
Aug 9, 2017 15:07:20 #
I use an aftermarket tool called Autostitch® to create my panoramas. It's very easy to use and quite fast. Here is one of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia I made in 2013:
Peggy's Cove pano.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr
and another in Glacier National Park that same trip:
Day 4 pano 1.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr
and this one in Bryce Canyon National Park in 2009--it was stitched from 8 portrait-aspect photos:
Bryce Canyon pano 670-678 by David Casteel, on Flickr
Peggy's Cove pano.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr
and another in Glacier National Park that same trip:
Day 4 pano 1.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr
and this one in Bryce Canyon National Park in 2009--it was stitched from 8 portrait-aspect photos:
Bryce Canyon pano 670-678 by David Casteel, on Flickr
Aug 9, 2017 15:15:19 #
David in Dallas wrote:
I use an aftermarket tool called Autostitch® to create my panoramas. It's very easy to use and quite fast. Here is one of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia I made in 2013:
Very nice - Looked at your other pano's on your Flicker site too!
Aug 9, 2017 15:31:27 #
TBPJr
Loc: South Carolina
williejoha wrote:
You did not mention at what zoom the pictures were taken. At 24 mm, bad idea. To eliminate the extreme hourglass compression and for great results try this. Shoot the same sequence of 6, but after each shot move sideways by 3 feet. That's the only way I shoot pano's with great success. I wish I could take credit for it but it's Scott Kelbies idea. Good luck and keep on shooting.
WJH
WJH
I searched, but I could not find the advice to move sideways--I did find the advice from Kelby to reset one's feet, but nothing about moving sideways (the advice was for hand-held panoramas--the first recommendation was to use a tripod). Can you point me to the suggestion about moving sideways, please?
Aug 9, 2017 15:55:40 #
Maybe the moving sideways works for stitching tools that do linear panoramas, but the tool I use (Autostitch®) requires that the lens node remain in the same spot for all the shots. (I use the front element of the lens as the rotation point, and it's good enough.)
dngallegher, thanks for your comments. But I suspect you didn't see all my panoramas--they tend to be grouped with the other photos of given locations or tours. I suppose I could create a Collection of just panoramas and put copies of all of them into it--it doesn't require more storage because Flickr® can put photos into more than one Album, and Albums in more than one Collection. I'd have to go through all my Albums, though, and there are more than 900 of them.
dngallegher, thanks for your comments. But I suspect you didn't see all my panoramas--they tend to be grouped with the other photos of given locations or tours. I suppose I could create a Collection of just panoramas and put copies of all of them into it--it doesn't require more storage because Flickr® can put photos into more than one Album, and Albums in more than one Collection. I'd have to go through all my Albums, though, and there are more than 900 of them.
Aug 9, 2017 16:06:26 #
TheDman
Loc: USA
Photoshop handles the easy stitches, but when it fails to produce a good result I switch to Autopano Giga, which has always done a beautiful job no matter what I throw at it. 30-shot, multiple row panos, no problem.
Aug 9, 2017 16:43:14 #
williejoha wrote:
You did not mention at what zoom the pictures were taken. At 24 mm, bad idea. To eliminate the extreme hourglass compression and for great results try this. Shoot the same sequence of 6, but after each shot move sideways by 3 feet. That's the only way I shoot pano's with great success. I wish I could take credit for it but it's Scott Kelbies idea. Good luck and keep on shooting.
WJH
WJH
I did shoot at 24MM portrait. The horizontal span that I wanted to stitch together was probably somewhere between 100 and 120 degrees. FOV tables tell me that each portrait image covered 53 degrees of horizontally (vertical coverage of each image was 73.7 degrees). I could have zoomed to max 70mm (19.5 degree FOV). Why would that have been better? At 70mm, I would also have reduced the vertical coverage to about 29 degrees, so I probably would have also had to take two rows of images for the scene.
Aug 9, 2017 20:55:00 #
David in Dallas wrote:
I use an aftermarket tool called Autostitch® to cr... (show quote)
Nice photographs. That must have been an interesting trip to go from Nova Scotia to Glacier National Park.
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