OnDSnap Loc: NE New Jersey

Dolly on rails...move as needed.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Works for me too. Even fills in the irregularities if want want it to.

bz178g

You can also try Microsoft Image Composite Editor, a free download that has worked for me when Photoshop doesn't.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

That sounds like a good idea. I would also suggest a prime lens of the normal focal length for the format, 50mm for Full Frame, 35mm for APS-C.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Moving the camera to avoid distortion from panning the camera is to avoid parallax error or distortion, not fish-eye or curvilinear distortion. I do panoramas quite often but nothing like what you are proposing. Unless everything is ideal I find I have to play with my stitched image in Photoshop quite a bit to get what I want. I often have to use Skew adjustments to the image. For more typical panned panos to avoid parallax problems you must pivot the camera-lens system at the optical node of the lens, not the focal plane (or tripod mount). For a normal lens the node is where the iris is inside the lens. You sort of have to guess. Though I know there are methods to precisely locate it. So you will need a focusing rail, pano rail, or other rig to bring the pivot point forward under the optical node. Though for what you plan to do moving the camera is the best or only plan. A narrow street and building is a far cry from say a mountain lake with plants in the foreground as a pano. That other fellows Walk the curb line with the tripod sounds good to me. Or do you know anyone in the movie industry? Track and camera dolly.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

I'm using an older version of Photoshop, Ps CS6, and it seems to do good job at stitched panoramas. I have even gotten good ones when I had not planned to create a pano when I shot say a Mountain landscape but later found I had a lot of shots and with just enough overlap to make it work. Issue is mostly getting the exposures the same so the tones match. Should not be done with AE.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Yes, once he learns to fly it.

lrm Loc: Sarasota, FL

Check website for HudsonHenry.com. His specialty is Panoramas, has videos and courses for same.

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

I've never done this but why not bring a friend and make a chalk snap line as reference. start in the middle and go left and right at same distance from center point on each side. Example from center go to right at 20 feet increments till the end, then go to to left same way. I imagine smaller increments would eliminate distortion

SkyKing Loc: Thompson Ridge, NY

...Neewer tripod dolly and Neewer camera slide that attaches to tripod...and some planning...?

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

A camera Slider long enough would be too expensive. I would just take straight on shots at predetermined increments and stitch them together in Photoshop. I've done it. It's practically guaranteed to work.

ecommons

Use the idea of the curb, but since there is no curb, use spaced stakes and some strong rope stretched across. This will help maintain distance. Also before each shot, measure up from the road to the center of your lens to maintain height. Use the grid pattern on the edge of the roof line. Hopefully it's level

POVDOV

I have done a few panos and I think you have a daunting task. Keeping the sensor parallel to the subject and vertically stable while driving on a rough potholed road is a big problem. PTgui is the premiere software for panoramas don't think they have a section on your problem but you might visit the sight and see. Good Luck

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Get one of these ....
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1147643-REG/vidpro_pd_1_dolly_for_video_photo_digital.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI%3A514&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI08a456ns7gIVHCmzAB31swHNEAQYAiABEgJl5vD_BwE

Mount everything up and just roll it down the sidewalk to your designated shooting points.

Stan

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

Oh my goodness, all these mechanical solutions! I did a similar pano a few months back while in Laguna. Subject was art done on a long fence. I set up (meaning, standing in a repeatable pose, mid-stride, with camera locked and cocked) at the left end and snapped my first shot, then took maybe six paces and did it again, and again, and again. I held the camera in portrait orientation. I indexed myself with curbs built into the parking lot I was in next to the fence (and I did verify that my track was parallel). It, the method, worked like a champ. Make sure you can lock your upper body in position and get it done! BTW, mine turned out just fine and it took 5 minutes max...