Panoramic Photo Stitching

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K3NA

K3NA

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What software do you all use. Took 5 portrait images of a sunset last night in Corfu and Photoshop is struggling to stitch them together or maybe I'm doing something wrong.
 


Autostitch and Photoshop.

If you use a wide lens and don't overlap the frames too much, most auto panoramic software will have difficulty.
 
Seascape?

If so, and you don't have much in the foreground there is probably very little for the software to actually match in the images which is probably your problem (if you have stuff in the foreground and haven't used a nodal point that introduces problems of its own)

I know ayesane (remember him?) was having trouble stitching a seascape, fairly sure he will have been using photoshop. I stitched the images for him in 2 minutes with PTGui - you can download a trial copy for free, or if you want to fire the images at me I don't mind having a quick go for you.
 
K3NA said:
I didn't Ross thats why I shot in portrait. Photoshop will stitch 3 of the images ok but leaves the others as separate images.
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depends on the focal length I guess but shooting portrait won't help the problems that arise from not swinging round the nodal point.
 
oROSSo said:
depends on the focal length I guess but shooting portrait won't help the problems that arise from not swinging round the nodal point.
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I agree but every time i shoot landscape i end up with a long thin image. I'm aware of the focal point just don't have the gear. I was hoping to get something half decent from my effort but maybe it's not to be...
 
Portrait is the way to do it if you are shooting a single row of shots.

Nodal won't matter much if there is nothing close to you as you wouldn't have any parallax issues. Handheld is fine for most "Landscape" shots.
 
Do you have shop? Which version?

Try the cylindrical version of the stitching, can often make sense of a tricky one

Loose images possibly because there isn't enough detail to match them up
 
What everyone needs is a 90mm TSE. Left, centre, middle. Long enough not to worry about the owld parallax.
 
Do third party plugins/other applications use different tech to Photoshop? I've tried a couple of new panorama techniques there's some horrendous stitching and vignetting that I've never seen before. Granted I've been taking them at 70mm but still, Photoshop used to be really good and now it's losing the plot!
 
Lonz said:
Do third party plugins/other applications use different tech to Photoshop? I've tried a couple of new panorama techniques there's some horrendous stitching and vignetting that I've never seen before. Granted I've been taking them at 70mm but still, Photoshop used to be really good and now it's losing the plot!
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it should piss it at 70mm, it gets harder the shorter to focal length.
 
oROSSo said:
it should piss it at 70mm, it gets harder the shorter to focal length.
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It's weird. I do exactly the same as I did before:

1) Import to Lightroom
2) Select the panoramas
3) Right click -> Edit in -> Merge to Panorama in Photoshop
4) Tick Auto, Remove Vignetting, Remove Distortion.

The results is horrendous. Granted it's probably around 10+ photos but still.
 
Lonz said:
It's weird. I do exactly the same as I did before:

1) Import to Lightroom
2) Select the panoramas
3) Right click -> Edit in -> Merge to Panorama in Photoshop
4) Tick Auto, Remove Vignetting, Remove Distortion.

The results is horrendous. Granted it's probably around 10+ photos but still.
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I've never used Photoshop to stitch but are you selecting the right kind of pano, ie. barrel or whatever? 10 shots must be really wide mind. I have it easy with TSE.
 
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