You've got a really good eye for Panos and love this one especially!
I'm curious what program you all are using for stitching, and if you've got pano heads or not - I love the flat perspective of so many shots here!. I just use PS and a ball head and my results can be mixed.
m.sommers00 wrote:
You've got a really good eye for Panos and love this one especially!
I'm curious what program you all are using for stitching, and if you've got pano heads or not - I love the flat perspective of so many shots here!. I just use PS and a ball head and my results can be mixed.
Thank you very much! Some others here may chime in who are using pano gear, but I’m not using any, just a ballhead on a leveled tripod, and sometimes I handhold. I use Lightroom to stitch when I shoot multiple frames, but with the 60mp sensor I’m finding a single frame is usually enough, I still have plenty of resolution after cropping to my preferred 2:1 to make beautiful 32” x 16” prints on my Canon 17” printer. When I owned a Canon 44” wide printer I did stitch more often to print at 60” x 30” but it died and not sure I want to buy, install, and maintain another one.
I use an A7Riv so as Ross noted, a 2x1 (or similar) crop is usable and not too different than 16x9. I use Lightroom for stitching, too. Two or three frames isn't too bad, it can help to have a nice horizon or other straight reference to follow. Most of the time I do try handheld, a casual approach, so I try to select a focal length that gives plenty of upper and lower "space" as well as using side to side overlap. I don't usually double row but try now and then. (Even with a pretty decent computer, the A7Riv files are large so too many can get rather longish processing times.
The Highway 120/Highway 395 Mobil Station Whoa Nellie Deli at Mono Lake) was handheld but long swings like that are much easier with a leveled tripod/pan head of some sort. Mine tend not too have foreground elements so less concern with parallax problems.
I like to do very large panoramas one row, but up to 25 frames wide. I often shoot at 85-100mm or even 300mm in the mountains. I enjoy being able to zoom in a lot.
If the light allows it I only shoot handheld and mend the panoramas with Lightroom, in difficult cases I also use PanoramaStudio, which is much better at making the vignette of single frames disappear.
Springtime in Bavaria, Sony A7rIII, Zeiss Makro Planar 2/100 ZF
