Here’s a nice planetoid tutorial:
https://ultrawide.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/how-to-create-a-little-planet-using-hugin/
<https://ultrawide.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/how-to-create-a-little-planet-using-hugin/>
I recommend full manual, using HDR. Hugin (open source, free, but somewhat
nerdly) will even do the HDR for you, but I’ve been using the E-M1.2’s built-in
HDR.
Also, use manual white balance. In my first attempt, I left it on auto, which
was okay for the 360, but when I did the nadir, the grass ended up having a
distinctively different colour. If it hadn’t been a “gray card” sky, the zenith
probably would have been off, too.
Planetoids really benefit from using a calibrated tripod head. I’ve done “swing
and pray” panos, but when using a wide-angle lens with foreground and
background, you NEED to do a proper nodal alignment. The tutorial I linked
above does not explain that. A decent approximation is to rotate around the
front element of your lens, but to be precise, you need to align a near object
with a far object on one side of the scene, then rotate to put them on the
other side of the scene. They will change their alignment; move the camera back
and forth until they are in alignment on both sides of the screen when you
rotate.
Either that, or don’t do panos with foreground and background. :-)
Jan
> On Feb 27, 2019, at 15:27, DONALD HOLBROOK <donholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:donholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> Neat! Will have to try that.
>> On February 27, 2019 at 2:15 PM Jan Steinman <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> <mailto:jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>
>>>
>>> I?ll watch for another opportunity.
>>
>> Just MAKE an opportunity!
>>
>> The thing about panos, is that, just like working with a new camera or new,
>> unusual lens, you have to TRAIN YOURSELF to start seeing them.
>>
>> Yesterday, I went out with a tripod, Kaidan Kiwi pano head, and M.Zuiko
>> 7-14mm, and put my eyes in “pano mode” and shot three spheres. They are more
>> work than non-spheres, but you can turn them into “planetoids,” which is a
>> lot of fun! This was my first:
>>
>> http://www.ecoreality.org/file/Planet_EcoReality_1.jpg
>> <http://www.ecoreality.org/file/Planet_EcoReality_1.jpg>
>>
>> I’ve been doing pans since the last century, using layer masks and
>> painstakingly brushing in one frame or the other. Things have gotten a lot
>> easier and more fun!
>>
>> Jan
>>
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