miami skyline from wednesday nite with the boys. never done this before. i tried the first time unsuccessfully. went back in and straightened all the horizons and retried and had a little better success. several questions!! is there a program that i can use the raw images to stitch together or will i always have to convert to jpeg or tif? if i have to convert, which is better, jpeg or tif before stitching? do i have to edit base adjustments before the stitch?
i used manual exposure so that all the frames would be exposed at the same settings, yet my sky looks a little funky. am i missing something?
used panorama maker 3.0. seems pretty basic. would only stitch jpegs or tifs. there are really no instructions so i just winged it. i have no idea what the heck i'm doing so any info will help!!!
exif data: D300, 18-200VR at 28mm, f/16, 20s, ISO 200, +2.0EV
Hey Harold. Nice pano for the first time. I use Photomerge in CS3. After I merge in JPEG, I can adjust the entire photo if I have to. Your image has a few hot spots, maybe you can dodge a little to tone them down. It's OK about the other night, I finally stopped crying, hehehe.
Hi Mr H - I do a lot of this - I do VR tours (180% x 360%) for real estate agents, so I can offer some advice.
Heres a link to one if you want to look - http://www.vrtour.com.au/rushbrook/
As far as I am aware - you will need to convert to JPG. IMHO the best program for stitching is PTGUI - there is a demo version available - has many advanced options for all sorts of cool stuff. It has a auto mode - lode your images in and it does it's stuff and viola - pano that has been blended and balanced and gets it very very close lots of the time. Will also do HDR stitches.
The biggest factor to the success for a Pano - is having the camera rotate around its NODAL point so that you do not get any parralax errors when you come to stitch the images. Many solutions for a PANO HEAD for your tripod and I have tried pretty much all of them - I find the best value/performance to be the nodal ninja (just google it). Works very well.
As for exposure - Yes you need to work in manul mode and your exposure should not change from shot to shot - unless of course you are doing a HDR pano.
Ptgui also have a number of tutorials available on their website.
thanks guys!! lance, i think you covered all the bases! if that's your work on the link you gave, awesome!!!!! very nice stuff.....i'll take that townhouse.....just put my name on it.....i'll move in next week!!
Would work the image in tiff since you are working in 16 bit then convert to jpeg at the end Best not to convert Particularly like the colors you guys got Haven't seen the browns and sure look appealing !!!
Mr. Daktari,
I like the pano...how many images were stiched together? I actually find the hues and color combination of the sky and water very appealing...If you can tone down or subdue the bright lights a bit, it would make this a 10...:D Congrats...buddy, you did better than me...my hat off to you...:):cool:
My First Pano
