I used a tripod (with regular panning head) with my daughter in the garden and hand held with the girl on the truck. I prefer tripod, because hand held you tend to rotate the camera around your body's center rather than the cameras core center which can make it hard to stitch in post production.
killersnowman wrote:
why 30 images?!?!?!!! that seems like something you would need if you want everything IN focus.... no comprende
I do a 50% overlap of each image. This allows the stitching software to better understand where each photo goes. If you don't have enough overlap the software will not place/warp the photo in the correct location/perspective and you'll have to do it manually. When photos are out of focus it makes it real hard for the software to understand whats what and auto alignment becomes a real issue. So, it actually saves time in the long run to shoot more photos with lots of overlap.
And having used fast UWAs and a 135L extensively on a FF, there is no possible way to get a 135L to look like that truck shot. No matter how far you back up, its always going to look so very different.
SebastianS wrote:
Do you have an example of what ONE of the shots looked like with the subject in it? I am always curious how this one frame is composed and how the others fill around it.
This shows the frames captured to create the bokeh panoramic. I added a stroke and shadow on each layer so it's more visible. I've got to much of an overlap in some areas. But always better to be safe than sorry. I don't have a tool to get the photos evenly spaced apart with the exact same overlap, so that's why each frame has a different overlap amount. Oh btw, at this crop this photo is 86 megapixels.
I've been sorta following this thread a little, even though I'm familiar with it. I'm surprised that Mr. Welsh hasn't chimed in, he's done a number of these with really good results.
Anyway, the last one with the strokes and shadows is actually pretty cool in it's own right. Thanks for going to the effort on that one.
