Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thanks what rules do you folks use to pick which pano stitch method? i tend to trial and error, but it's time costly ric On Oct 29, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Jeff Moore wrote: > I took the base photos for these a couple of months ago, when there > was some nice flat light to even things out, and just got around to > trying to get Photoshop CS5 to paste them up. They're all from six > portrait-orientation frames with an M9 and 50mm Summicron (the latter > chosen for its very low geometric distortion), and I even got all > fancy with a nodal slide and custom color calibration with the DNG > Profile Editor. > > All that technical stuff aside, I don't claim I have a particularly > beautiful overall composition -- if I attempt this same lot again, > should I notice a day with good light for it, I'll try it with the > pre-ASPH 35mm Summicron (to give myself more vertical from which to > crop, at the very least keeping the top of the building in the > middle), and see if my bigger tripod actually gets me properly above > the top of the damned chain-link fence, and see if a nice picture can > be carved from the result. > > But I'm passing this along in case people might enjoy either seeing > how a couple of different CS5 pano-stitching methods look, or just > want to stare into a 50-plus-megapixel M9 image. > > Oh, and I put these up on two websites: our home the LUG gallery (in > case you can get the panorama-viewer there to work properly for you; I > had difficulties), and my SmugMug-based site. Oh, and the LUG Gallery > wouldn't let me upload my JPEGs at high quality, which was resulting > in 35-or-so-megabyte files - I ran afoul of its 10MB-per-picture > limit, so told Lightroom to compress-to-size. > > So. Stitched using Photoshop's "reposition" method, where frames are > pasted together with as little processing as possible: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/scratch/20100824-JC-repo-10Mmax.jpg.html > > > http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/LUGmisc1/11359884_aTkKE#1069032409_vfh2M-X3-LB > > Stitched using Photoshop's "perspective" method (where Photoshop warps > the base images to try to create a seamless overall perspective), then > subjected to a little more transformation in Lightroom to try to level > things out: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/scratch/20100824-JC-persp-10Mmax.jpg.html > > > http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/LUGmisc1/11359884_aTkKE#1069034666_bE9T2-X3-LB > > Enjoy, if you're interested. I'm a sucker for the level of detail in > this stuff. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information