Panorama Help

mrupes

mrupes

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So I've tried two panoramas recently (one was at night and one during a cloudy day) and they are coming out terribly. When im taking the pictures they all have the exact same settings to.

Here is what i do: I start with the bottom right picture of the panorama, take the shot, then pan up, take another, and a third above that. Then i return the camera to the bottom picture, pan to the left, and repeat the same process for the next 3 rows (and every time i make sure there is a decent amount overlapping so stitching is easier).

After i've taken all the photos, i bring them all into lightroom and edit them all with the exact same setting AND put profile corrections on.

So after i've finished editing, i bring the photos into photoshop, and in my mind, they should be able to stitch together nicely.

But when i try to stitch them, they never fit together correctly, here are some examples

so for this first screenshot, i was trying to overlap the top picture onto the bottom picture, but as you can see, for some reason the house on the top is weirdly distorted even thought the top picture was taken directly about the bottom picture

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in this next screenshot, i was trying to get the the trees to overlap, but you can see how towards the left half of the picture, the top of the trees fit together fine, but towards the right, for some reason, the picture wont match up nicely

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Finally, for this last screen shot, these were to pictures taken directly next to each other, with the same exact settings on the camera and the same exact editing in lightroom, but for some reason the photo on the right is much darker than the one on the left

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I dont know if I'm completely screwing something up or what but any help would be MUCH appreciated. its really pissing me off

+K FOR ANY HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Not sure why thats happening but what i do when that happens (not the distortion so much, more the overlapping under/over exposure problem) is let photoshop automate it. Go automate > photomerge. Then choose files and try the different methods of merging in the menu box that pops up. (auotmatic works fine most of the time) It's also much less time consuming and looks better most of the time. Of course if you were a professional or had more knowledge than i do in photoshop then you could do it manually by yourself, but i think this is fine for most things.

I have 2-3 panoramas here on ns that i did this way if you want to see how it merges the edges and fixes the overlapping problem (one frame is brighter than the other and looks out of palce
 
I have done panoramas with up to 40 images in them. There are a few things you need to do first, and if you do them, they should come out flawless. First off. there are some patterns that photoshop will just have trouble with for automatic panoramas. Its a little hard to explain, but it will sometimes bunch up the stuff in the middle too much (happened with a few shots of ruins in Greece). Puppet warp and distortion correction can help, but it really depends on the image. Some you just have to do yourself. Anyways, here is my workflow.

Shoot manual. If not, pick the center image, adjust exposure in lightroom, turn brightness to 0, set the white balance etc. Then sync all the settings except for exposure (if you didn't shoot manually). Then go to each photo and adjust based on exposure values. Eg if the middle shot is at a shutter of 500, and then end is at 1000, I turn exposure to -1 on the end. This will make all the exposures match when you stitch them together

Then select them all, edit in photoshop, merge to panorama (option in lightroom). in photoshop you can usually get good results with just doing automatic, but again it depends on the photos. Save it, then go back to lightroom, add an secondary adjustments you need (eg -1/3 stop exposure, contrast etc.). After that you should be good to go.

Just to show you an example, here are two that I have done (both exported at 5000kb to upload faster). The first one i got printed out to about 5' by 1' and it looks beautiful. A few guys at the lab actually asked how I got so much detail in it, and I believe that one was all jpegs stitched with no exposure adjustment (I had just gotten my gh2 then). The second one I did using the method described here.

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I'm not gonna lie, I have had some awesome opportunities for photography recently. But even your yard can look cool for sunrise/sunset. Thats the nice thing about VT, there are some amazing features all over the place definitely different being in PA, but do what you can, and then when you find the right moment, you will be ready
 
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