Outstanding!
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/6/2015 6:09 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>
>> Understood and thank you for the explanation. I have never done any side
>> by side stitching of images but from from yours and from those of other
>> OMers the side to side distortions [eg: cloud formations] look to be
>> invisible.
>>
>
> Exactly the point of the technique Ken outlines. I agree - and - even
> leaving out linear distortion, really wide lenses add anamorphic
> distortions. I learned pretty early on to do panoramas with moderate focal
> lengths. When I experimented with my 17-35 mm zoom on the FF 5D, I got much
> better results turning it vertically @ 35 mm for more shots than
> horizontally @ 17 mm for 2-3 shots. With few, super wide shots, moderate
> distortion that one would not notice in a single shot can make transitions
> odd. It's actually pretty easy to see; just scanning across the subject
> through the viewfinder, one may see the movement of supposedly fixed things.
>
> And as Ken says, lots of overlap is good.
>
> This panorama is maybe 160°±. <
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19336>
>
> Taken along a roadside, and I can see the roadside weeds on the right and
> left edges, so approaching 180°. I didn't think about focal length, beyond
> grabbing the body with 12-50 on it, turned it vertical and set the focal
> length to give me some vertical room. Turned out to be 19 mm, but I wasn't
> paying attention to that at the time. Mostly, I was making false starts, as
> clouds wafted their shadows across the view.
>
> As it turned out, six shots did the job, but again, I wasn't counting,
> just overlapping by somewhere around 50% and trying to hold level while
> hand holding. This kind of landscape series almost always seems to turn out
> well in PS without fuss.
>
> W. A. Moose
>
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