Bend The Light
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it is nice but....
Wonky horizon line
also, in the water, either there is 2 identical twins wearing the same clothes or your panno mis aligned its self slightly.
Hi,
If you are going to do a panoramic photograph, it needs to be perfect, even the smallest amount of visible digital manipulation is going to look appalling when viewed in full size. I'm not sure what package you're using to knit the images together, or if you are doing it yourself but you're leaving some distinctive lines in the sky, as well as marks and height variations on the horizon, even in the revamped photograph.
Aside from that, my biggest critique is the lack of crispness in the final image, nothing in the image is sharp. It doesn't look like grain, it actually looks like a mix between motion blur and compression issues, so I'm not sure if the largest image is being pushed further than the original image can be taken.
Hi,
Download and try Autostitch (Photo-Freeware.net - Panorama Tool:AutoStitch Download), it's what I use to make Panoramaic photographs and I find it exceptionally good, much better than anything else I've tried and it's freeware too.
On the detail side, maybe if it's printed less than it's smallest size you might not notice, but certainly at it's full size it is apparent, look at the seagull sitting on the lamp post for example or the castle wall running across the top of the photograph.
Steve
Hi,
If you are using Autostich already you have to try and help it a bit with the images you input into it.
Firstly how much overlap are you using? It's suggested to use a minimum of 15%, but the beauty of digital is that it doesn't matter, there is no cost in taking extra photographs. I use the metering points on my camera to mark my overlaps, and try to get 33% - 50% overlap each time. It means a lot more photographs, but also a lot more images for Autostitch to work with.
For seas etc I have noticed that, as all images are very similar to each other, particularly here where the sky is lacking distinctive clouds, Autostitch finds it hard to differentiate one image from another. Therefore it's in your interest to try and include other items in the photograph as well, e.g. take this panorama as a selection of portrait shots, each one showing the height of the image in total.
If you are still getting a lot of obvious stitching marks, apart from playing around with the settings in Autostitch itself, you can try working on the overall image in sections, i.e. stitch two or three photographs together at a time that you know were taken side by side, and then stitch the resulting larger images together. This way it's much more unlikely that Autostitch will place an image incorrectly.
Steve