for me with my setup a 120 degree scene is 7 shots the center and 3 on each side. determine in advance the center point of the scene and try to go X number of shots on each side of it. i later shot panoramas with 35mm 50mm the hot dog effect was more pronounced. my tripod has degrees engraved in the mount, i was shooting at only a 15 degree spread and in looking at the shots before stiching there wasn't that much overlap. in vertical you are cutting your angle of view way down.

this is the only way to get some vertical scene, otherwise the panorama will be shaped like a hotdog. tried a 35mm didn't work, the individual shots didn't overlap. do not change them for any part of the panorama. put camera into manual metering mode and use those settings.

once you have found the brightest check the fstop and shutter speed. you are trying to find the brightest part of you panorama scene to be. set the exposure by pressing halfway and noteing the fstop and shutter speed. again make a max effort to get the camera level. if your tripod does not have a level builtin then buy one that slides into your flash hotshoe. Q 'Hey Fish, is that photo unretouched' ?Ī 'Are you freaking kidding me ? I used every function in Photoshop on it ! That was a horrible photo ! It was so OE and OOF, it looked like a big snowball ! In fact, I'm a downright lousy photographer.īut on the other hand, am I a master of PS, or what ?įor panoramas-use tripod. but it's a lot of large files, and it's Christmas and all. It does it all for you' ! Guess I could e-mail them all to him, to stitch for me. Just unusuable.Īnyway, it just kills me that my buddy probably knows even less than I do about photo stitching. One thing I should mention about this program is, when I get to the 'merge settings', their is a box which says 'Auto Acquire - Fine Pix S6000fd' Hey, that's pretty cool that it knows what camera I used, but the problem is, this is in very light grey print (not highlighted) and so I don't think it's using this info.īasically, my stitches are not lining up well, plus, there are darker bands in the sky, where the overlapp takes place. on photos which he took 'hand held' no less ! here use this one') I have a buddy who used the same program, to do some absolutely perfect, undetactable stitching. The thing is (before anybody tells me, 'Oh yea. The program I have been trying to use is the Canon Photo Utilities 3.1 Even though I have had nothing but problems with this in the past. I took several 'sets' of 2 to 4 shots each, yesterday, with the intentions of stitching them.

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