Shots "stitched together"

[vk2ss55 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close vk2ss55]

I can't think of the correct term but it's where you take a number of shots and stitch them together to give you a really wide panorama etc .

Have you noticed in 4WD Action that they seem to be doing this on their cover page for travel articles so the shot extends across 2 pages ?
i don't know about you guys but when I try to stitch shots together I end up with a wide shot alright but it's not very high resulting in a wide skinny image .
The mag's shots aren't like that at all and are full height .
Am I doing something wrong , sure they've got the power of a publishing house but I'd like to get the same results .
Cheers Ross

[OldGreyFart Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close OldGreyFart]

What software are you using to stitch them together. Take your series of pics all 'portrait' - long side up. Take many pics of your landscape - say about 6-9 overlapping. Stitch and then crop. I don't have enough posts to put up pics yest but will show you shortly.

How about postimg one of your examples.

[jss Moderated member Find all posts View Profile Close jss]

You can do it with the iphone camera too. Buggered if i know how but i watched a mate do it a few weeks ago.

Cheers
James

[vk2ss55 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close vk2ss55]

Thanks for the replies Guys . OGF thanks for the tip , I'll try using portrait mode . I've tried the Canon and the Nikon stitching software but both give a wide narrow result . I'm not surprised that you can do it on the IPhone as they seem to be able to do almost anything these days .
Cheers Ross

[mjrandom Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close mjrandom]

If you google panorama shots you will see there is a bit to it to get the shots seamless. First make sure to shoot in manual to keep the same exposure across the shots and then rotate the lens through the neutral point. Google can explain this better than me.

[vk2ss55 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close vk2ss55]

Thanks MJ Random I'll go to Google .
Cheers Ross

[glen_ep Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close glen_ep]

Panoramas...

To prevent them turning out too skinny, take the individual shots vertically instead. I've been doing that with my 16:9 video camera and have great results.

To stich them together I use "autostitch" (if you try this software, be sure play around with the settings and check results). For more important shots I may stitch them together manually with editing software like Photoshop or GIMP.

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Sorry about the short post last night I was a bit time poor. As usual.

I am not sure if I have posted this before but it is (I think) 4 or 5 shots with a 50mm lens (all I carried with me on the trip) held portrait and then stitched together. I hand held this by wedging the camera on a stanchion. Exposure is a bit off unfortunately but I didn't check carefully at the time.



I did this with Photoshop. The wider the lens the more distortion you get so you can either tweak that in photoshop or let the camera do it (if it is capable like the D800) or have more overlap. The exposure is important. If you leave it on auto (P, S or A) it is likely that the overall picture when merged will look odd. As I said before manual mode is the go. Meter around the panorama and pick a mid range set up.

Few links that will help (and yes people either love or hate Ken Rockwell, I just take him at face value but he does have some good stuff to say)

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/panoramic-software.htm

http://digital-photography-school.co...ith-any-camera

http://www.panoguide.com/howto/;jses...3C25BA430B31C8

http://archive.bigben.id.au/tutorial...oto/nodal.html

http://www.panoramafactory.com/camera_setup/setup.html

http://www.manfrotto.com/shooting-coastal-panoramas

And there are lots more. One of these days I will get a panorama head for my tripod but I cannot really justify it. I have a really neat idea (I think) for a city scape panorama just need the day to set it up and do it.

I recently bought a 16mm fisheye lens which I can crop aggressively to give the same sort of effect (with 36MP to work with anything is possible). It distorts heavily but I like the effect for some shots. The lens shows 180 degrees diagonal corner to corner.



The steps are straight in real life.

Michael

[VXWesty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close VXWesty]

As per the previous posts, shoot in portrait orientation and set everything to manual... that includes focus point, white balance, exposure (shutter speed, aperture and ISO). Try to overlap each frame by around 30% and don't use a circular polariser as it will give the sky a weird effect. A panorama head is not really needed unless you have lot of subject matter close to the camera.

The Photomerge feature in Photoshop is what I use and it seems to work very well.

VXWesty

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Anyone tried multi-row panorama?!?!

[Chris220220 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chris220220]

Not sure but I doubt the mags would be using stitched images on covers. I would say they are just using a good FF digital image and cropping it to fit.
I play with that a lot with my shots, you do not always want 4:3 or 16:9
Having said that stitiching software is getting very clever and done right very hard to pick. Just make sure you match settings across shots.

If you join two 16:9 shots you get 32:9 which is very wide and skinny.

[MidLifeCrisis Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close MidLifeCrisis]

On the iPhone 5 you go to camera then options and select panorama. Even I couldn't muck it up from there.

(PS, this is my quota of useful posts for the month = 1, please remember to add to my reputation points )

[vk2ss55 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close vk2ss55]

Michael thanks for the info and all the links , lots of good info there mate .
Cheers Ross