Aladdin
Jan 23, 2018 10:14:49 #
Cast shot of park district production of this musical. Three horizontal shots stitched together in Photoshop. Had to fill in open areas at top and bottom of the stitched product. Improved terrible perspective distortion on the right though some remains. Considerable burning in to correct for uneven lighting.
Jan 23, 2018 11:00:00 #
Jan 24, 2018 06:55:10 #
Whatever you made a darn nice capture. I use Microsoft photo viewer and clicking the cursor magnifies and you did do good.
Jan 24, 2018 08:35:35 #
Jan 24, 2018 10:47:42 #
abc1234 wrote:
Cast shot of park district production of this musical. Three horizontal shots stitched together in Photoshop. Had to fill in open areas at top and bottom of the stitched product. Improved terrible perspective distortion on the right though some remains. Considerable burning in to correct for uneven lighting.
Very colorful group! The perspective from close to far away makes it interesting. The distortion is something I have not encountered in PP, but I wonder if PS's "Liquify" would help?
Jan 24, 2018 13:48:40 #
SusanFromVermont wrote:
Very colorful group! The perspective from close to far away makes it interesting. The distortion is something I have not encountered in PP, but I wonder if PS's "Liquify" would help?
Were I better at PS, I might have gotten it right. Three shots went into this. The distortion on the right was much worse than in this version. I reduced it by making a rectangular mask and then using the edit>transform>scale tool to move the right edge leftward a bit. I had to avoid compressing the girls on the left side of the selection. I am sure someone has a better way of doing.
The gentleman on the right was one of the directors and his joy was so palpable in this shot. I wanted him to look natural so we could enjoy his smile.
Panoramas have opened up a new world to me.
Jan 25, 2018 09:59:12 #
abc1234 wrote:
Were I better at PS, I might have gotten it right.... (show quote)
I agree - Panoramas are a wonderful way to capture a view. And the multiple-frame technique makes it possible to capture detail well beyond what a single frame can do.
I mentioned the liquefy function in PS because it allows manipulation of subjects in a small area - such as giving a person a "facelift" or pulling the mouth into a smile. Just recently saw this in a video tutorial. Not sure which one, but you ought to find one in the PS User Guide [link to it under "Help" on the PS toolbar]. Try it on a copy of the original stitched panorama and see what you can do! I'm not fully versed in PS, there are a lot of things I have not used, this one included. But when I saw the video, it reminded me of all the manipulation I did manually to adjust a jawline, and realized I could have done it more easily and faster with this tool...
Jan 25, 2018 10:01:38 #
Good morning Susan,
I will try it. Thanks for the information.
I will try it. Thanks for the information.
Jan 25, 2018 11:27:44 #
abc1234 wrote:
Good morning Susan,
I will try it. Thanks for the information.
I will try it. Thanks for the information.
Jan 29, 2018 05:14:22 #
SusanFromVermont wrote:
Very colorful group! The perspective from close to far away makes it interesting. The distortion is something I have not encountered in PP, but I wonder if PS's "Liquify" would help?
Susan, the distortion is caused by volume anamorphosis. Nearly all very wide angle lenses produce this. There is only one software product that I know of that can "fix" this to a small degree. DXO Viewpoint, or DXO Photolab if you get the complete raw editing solution, which includes this correction tool.
http://www.dxo.com/us/photography/tutorials/understanding-volume-deformation
Photoshop's version of this isn't as effective.
Here it is after spending about 10 seconds in Viewpoint.
Two other solutions would work here.
1) Shoot an extra frame to the right and crop. This would keep the right-most person away from the edge of the frame.
2) Use the camera in portrait orientation. Again, you'd need to crop a bit from the top and bottom, but the volume anamorphosis would be minimal along the long edge (vertical edge) of each frame.
Jan 29, 2018 09:32:26 #
Gene51 wrote:
Susan, the distortion is caused by volume anamorph... (show quote)
Very much better. Thanks for doing this. I learned something. The left side is also bigger. I will keep this in mind for next time. On point 1 above, would you place the right-most person in the middle of the frame and then shoot even one more to the right?
Depend on your lens, you may only have to do 1/3. But you won't see any of this if you use the camera in portrait orientation. The last resort, which actually worked out well on this image, is to use DXO software to make the correction.
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