Landscape Panoramas

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WhiteLight

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

i need some help from all of you who have done these very well.
for the love of ogd, i have not been able to do away with the stitch lines.
i know it's not but by any chance could it be PC dependent?
i have tried using ICE, Elements, CS6.. all of them end up with with very visible stitch lines.
could the number of photos matter??
i tried with a 9 shot pano
 
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sailtastic

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

You need to be very careful with your camera settings to ensure that the camera catches each image with the same metering, WB etc. Any differences will manifest themselves as clear differences in colour as you stitch the shots together.

If you are still left with residual differences then use a photo editor to blend out the joins.
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
Re: Landscape panographs

letmedanz said:
i need some help from all of you who have done these very well.
for the love of ogd, i have not been able to do away with the stitch lines.
i know it's not but by any chance could it be PC dependent?
i have tried using ICE, Elements, CS6.. all of them end up with with very visible stitch lines.
could the number of photos matter??
i tried with a 9 shot pano
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Are you being careful to overlap at least 20% on your images? Could this be the problem?
 
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WhiteLight

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

Mojo Dave said:
Are you being careful to overlap at least 20% on your images? Could this be the problem?
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Yeah.. i think the program automatically suggests 17% as the overlap margin.
The pics are merged perfectly, but the horizontal stitch lines appear for all the images.
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
Re: Landscape panographs

letmedanz said:
Yeah.. i think the program automatically suggests 17% as the overlap margin.
The pics are merged perfectly, but the horizontal stitch lines appear for all the images.
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Here's another dumb question - have you saved the image and then opened it up in a different program? I've noticed that sometimes I'll see the lines in the images while still viewing it in CS6, they look like cracks in an egg shell but when I save the panorama and import it into LR those lines are no longer visible.
 
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WhiteLight

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

hmmm.. yeah.. i did see them in LR after stitching & they are still there :)
my concern is that these stitch lines appear with any program..
just makes me think i have a crappy machine...
 
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Guy

New member
Re: Landscape panographs

Were the individual shots taken in manual mode? As said by sailtastic, any change in WB or aperture will be very visible. You need to have exactly the same camera settings for each photo :).
 
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WhiteLight

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

Oh yea! all in manual mode, even with the lens on manual.
i really don't have a problem with the way the final image gets merged, but only the damn stitch lines :)
i'll probably post the image if it would make more sense..
 
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TedG954

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

This is a panorama I shot about an hour ago. It is made up of four frames, shot with a Nikon 75-240 f4-5.6 zoom lens. It was stitched together in Photo Shop.

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These are the 4 frames that I used. All were shot in RAW and post processed.

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By the way, this is a photo of the highest peak in Broward County, Florida. It also happens to be where our garbage gets dumped. Our man-made-mountain.
 
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KWJams

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

Here is a panograph of a mountain range near Big Sky, Montana with the Angel Rock I posted in another thread.
I used Photosynth which is another "free" Microsoft program. Not too sure how it will work here.
Open it up and hit start arrow and then you can zoom in on select photos.

Angel Rock near Big Sky, Montana - Photosynth
 
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TedG954

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

No one has posted any panoramas for a while, so I will. The Indian Casino in Margate has a 7 story parking garage and I decided to do some panoramas from the roof top.

This is facing East. The "mountain" in the middle is Mount Broward, our garbage dump. I live in the top left quadrant where you can see a white water tower.

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This shot is to the North. If you look real close, you can see Canada. We have a lot of man-made "lakes" for flood control during storm season.

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This is the West. On the horizon is the Everglades. In the foreground is the ubiquitous Walmart.

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Lastly is the Southern Exposure. All the buildings on the horizon are on the ocean. The further right horizon is Fort Lauderdale.

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And for you folks experiencing winter weather, please note there's not a cloud in the sky for 360 degrees of panorama. :cool:
 
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TedG954

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

And I'd like to note that these were done with the D5100 and 18-55mm lens. It's an awesome combination.
 
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nikonpup

Senior Member
Re: Landscape panographs

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