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Panorama/Cropped ~Tutorial
For Monday's Weekly Photo Challenge and Thursday Retreads Group. Many of you asked how I "did" this so I thought I would take today's retread to give you a brief tutorial.
Tips on shooting a panorama
1. Shoot in manual so you have control over aperture, shutter speed and exposure.
(For those of you that have a "point and shoot", your camera is going to be making the exposure decisions so be careful of things like bright sky going to darker sky, light versus shade, etc.) (The first one I shot, I was shooting my house from the street and was shooting in Aperture Priority. I had sky, sky with tree, tree, tree with house, etc.. The camera was making exposure decisions and my sky turned up different hues in each shot. The good news is, the tree was up close. If everything is "far away" like in the lake panorama, you'll have better luck.)
2. Shoot in vertical (or portrait) format so you have more room to crop.
3. Shoot by moving your body instead of your head. If you have a zoom lens, don't zoom in and out. Replant your feet every three or so shots as you move through the image. (Monday's image was nine shots turning from left to right about 240 degrees, but you can do a panorama in as little as two shots.)
4. Most important! Leave "at least" 20% of the last image in your next image.
TIP ~ So you're out shooting a lot that day and decide to take a series of shots you're plan on putting into a panorama. First, take a picture of your hand. Yeah, your hand right in front of the camera. Shoot the panorama. Now, take another picture of your hand. When you get home and put all your pics on your computer, you'll have these funky looking pictures of your hand but you'll know they're at the beginning and the end of your panorama.
Processing...
Most processing programs have the ability to stitch your photos together automatically. Look under Help in your program and type in the word "photomerge". Or go to the web, type in your program and photomerge.
TIP ~ When processing, don't edit any of your (panorama) pictures in any way until you have stitched them together.
Let's use this page as a forum.
Additional tips/tricks... please post them here so we all can learn!
Questions? Please post them here also.
And PLEASE, if you do a panorama, please copy it here! We'd all love to see it!
Happy Shooting!
Micky
Panorama/Cropped ~Tutorial
For Monday's Weekly Photo Challenge and Thursday Retreads Group. Many of you asked how I "did" this so I thought I would take today's retread to give you a brief tutorial.
Tips on shooting a panorama
1. Shoot in manual so you have control over aperture, shutter speed and exposure.
(For those of you that have a "point and shoot", your camera is going to be making the exposure decisions so be careful of things like bright sky going to darker sky, light versus shade, etc.) (The first one I shot, I was shooting my house from the street and was shooting in Aperture Priority. I had sky, sky with tree, tree, tree with house, etc.. The camera was making exposure decisions and my sky turned up different hues in each shot. The good news is, the tree was up close. If everything is "far away" like in the lake panorama, you'll have better luck.)
2. Shoot in vertical (or portrait) format so you have more room to crop.
3. Shoot by moving your body instead of your head. If you have a zoom lens, don't zoom in and out. Replant your feet every three or so shots as you move through the image. (Monday's image was nine shots turning from left to right about 240 degrees, but you can do a panorama in as little as two shots.)
4. Most important! Leave "at least" 20% of the last image in your next image.
TIP ~ So you're out shooting a lot that day and decide to take a series of shots you're plan on putting into a panorama. First, take a picture of your hand. Yeah, your hand right in front of the camera. Shoot the panorama. Now, take another picture of your hand. When you get home and put all your pics on your computer, you'll have these funky looking pictures of your hand but you'll know they're at the beginning and the end of your panorama.
Processing...
Most processing programs have the ability to stitch your photos together automatically. Look under Help in your program and type in the word "photomerge". Or go to the web, type in your program and photomerge.
TIP ~ When processing, don't edit any of your (panorama) pictures in any way until you have stitched them together.
Let's use this page as a forum.
Additional tips/tricks... please post them here so we all can learn!
Questions? Please post them here also.
And PLEASE, if you do a panorama, please copy it here! We'd all love to see it!
Happy Shooting!
Micky