Panorama stitch

[Eyesthruthelens]

Hi,
Which panorama SW you use for Minolta photos?
I've been trying to create Panorama shots.. but always there is a different exposure btw the photos..

Any tips for Panorama shots or any good links in the Web?

[zcf]

I use Arcsoft's Panorama Maker 3 (got it free from buying FZ5 last time), good software, I remember there are some free one on the internet also.

Just stitched this last night.

[dominator]

Originally Posted by Eyesthruthelens Hi, Which panorama SW you use for Minolta photos? I've been trying to create Panorama shots.. but always there is a different exposure btw the photos.. Any tips for Panorama shots or any good links in the Web?

different exposure because of your camera capturing difficult exposure due to your setting?

for myself, if doing panorama i prefer to use exposure lock.

not a good one, but here is an example from me.

[jsbn]

Its always a challenge to stitch 3 or more photos to form a single pano.

My suggestion is to start with 2 first.
Get ur meter readings off a single point (foreground or background), switch to Manual mode and fix the aperture and shutter speed to one single exposure thru-out. DO NOT CHANGE APERTURE AND SHUTTER SPEED regardless what the meter tells u when u rotate the tripod.

Shoot one, rotate taking note of the tilt as well as barrel distortion associated with wides and ultra-wides. After u turn the camera, compensate a little for the tilt and fire off one more.

I usually use Photoshop CS2. No software can do magic if ur exposure the photos differently.

[Agetan]

Shoot everything in Manual.

Manual exposure, manual white balance, manual focus and everything else is manual.

Also make sure you give at least 30-50% overlap.

Panorama Factory is very good too.

Hart

[Eyesthruthelens]

Thanks.. I tried manual the other day and still the sky exposured was out btw the 2 photos
I'm using my old Canon PhotoStitch program..

[dominator]

maybe can show the photo?

[rTwin]

i use a program called PTAssembler.. pretty darn good

[Eyesthruthelens]

Originally Posted by dominator maybe can show the photo?

Here is my Pano photo..
I'm using manual setting - without tripod.



The original 2 shots..

[Agetan]

Looks fine to me..

In panorama situation, you either have to wait for the light to be consistent through out the scene or you are using average metering which is a compromise.

What you can do is do 2 pano and then merge them to get the best of everything.

Regards,

Hart

[zcf]

I think it might be program problem instead, second photo I used Panorama Maker 3 to stitch.

[Eyesthruthelens]

Originally Posted by zcf I think it might be program problem instead, second photo I used Panorama Maker 3 to stitch.

Looking at the photos.. the first seem to be sharper..

[Drudkh]

took this last weekend

[Eyesthruthelens]

Originally Posted by Drudkh took this last weekend

Perfect Pano and nice

Is it with manual setting and tripod?

[jsbn]

Originally Posted by Agetan Looks fine to me.. In panorama situation, you either have to wait for the light to be consistent through out the scene or you are using average metering which is a compromise. What you can do is do 2 pano and then merge them to get the best of everything. Regards, Hart

Yes. 2 photo pano is a lot easier than a 3 or 4 photo pano.

Start off with 2 to make ur life a lot easier. If u wanna go 3 or 4 photo panos, also can. Its up to u.

[zcf]

Originally Posted by Eyesthruthelens Looking at the photos.. the first seem to be sharper..

You pass me better resolution photo, I stitch and try then return to you, then you see whether it is still sharp or not?

[ldft]

[quote=zcf]I use Arcsoft's Panorama Maker 3 (got it free from buying FZ5 last time), good software, I remember there are some free one on the internet also.


Can't agree more. Took this panaramic shot with my Panasonic FX-5, fully auto, total of 8 shots stitched together using the Arcsoft panorama maker 3. Joined them all at one go.

[zcf]

Another stitch from Pano Maker 3 today.

[TME]

I tried 10 shots before... came out perfect using Pano Factory except that I forgot and shot the pictures with ISO1600... so it was terribly grainy... the thing is that the stitching was perfect...

I tried again this time in Thailand but I forgot to fix the exposure... haven't tried stitching but the exposure was quite consistent due to the cloudy overcast sky... will post when I get it done.... first must fix my crashed Kingston card...

[Eyesthruthelens]

Hi.. read the paper today and they recommended this free autostitch SW.. downloaded the SW and tested on my previous photos.. that I have difficulty to get a good stitch..

The results are amazing.... all Pano stitch photos turned out perfect..
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html