Who needs medium format......I have a 55MP Nikon

[JTPhotography]

I finally got out to take some practice pano merge shots with the 24mm tilt shift. This is two horizontal shots, stacked vertically, the top image lost about 30%, final image being approx. 7000x8000 pixels. I had read that the merge process is super simple and it was, I had a few spots to clone to clean things up but that is pretty much it. The merge line is just where the blue starts coming into the sky. I also did some sample shots with lots of detail to see how everything lined up and it did so flawlessly. I tried merging two horizontal shots side by side but the exposure difference came into play near the edges and made editing too much of a pain. I need to play around more with that, as well as stacking vert shots side by side. Taken with a d800e. I really like this ratio.

 

[480sparky]

My Nikons range into the gigapixel range.

Grays Lake

Adel Sweetcorn Fest 2011

Grand Tetons in the Clouds

 

[ruifo]

I've been also using ultra-high megapixel with the D810 (as if it wasn't enough).

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[JustJazzie]

Ohhh, isn't that fantastic?! Beautiful shot. I do hope you plan to hang it somewhere!

 

[DGMPhotography]

Pretty great shot! Care to elaborate on your process for merging?

 

[JTPhotography]

Pretty great shot! Care to elaborate on your process for merging?

Sure, but not much of a process at all. Open one, open the other as a new layer (this one will be the top layer and will show 100%) and simple slide them in place. Crop the edges a bit and clean up the seam with the clone tool if needed. I have tried this without the use of a tilt shift and the post clean up could be extensive. That is the thing about a tilt shift, the camera and lens isn't moving, so the seam is flawless.

 

[JoL]

Beautiful image! I don't care too much about super high resolution images, but the picture itself is great!

 

[DGMPhotography]

Pretty great shot! Care to elaborate on your process for merging?

Sure, but not much of a process at all. Open one, open the other as a new layer (this one will be the top layer and will show 100%) and simple slide them in place. Crop the edges a bit and clean up the seam with the clone tool if needed. I have tried this without the use of a tilt shift and the post clean up could be extensive. That is the thing about a tilt shift, the camera and lens isn't moving, so the seam is flawless.

That makes sense.

It's strange - a lot of little digital p&s cameras have panoramic capabilities, but a lot of DSLRs don't. No fair

 

[480sparky]

Do those P&S cameras have the ability to generate high-res/high-mp images? Most are limited to 2000-3000 pixels on the long edge.

 

[DGMPhotography]

Do those P&S cameras have the ability to generate high-res/high-mp images? Most are limited to 2000-3000 pixels on the long edge.

Okay, not the same resolution of course, but same field of view. Although some of them have come a long ways. My p&s is 16MP.

 

[ruifo]

It's strange - a lot of little digital p&s cameras have panoramic capabilities, but a lot of DSLRs don't. No fair

It's not hard to stitch multiple shots together.

 

[Gary A.]

That is a wonderful image, regardless of the MP's. Thank you for sharing.

 

[DGMPhotography]

It's strange - a lot of little digital p&s cameras have panoramic capabilities, but a lot of DSLRs don't. No fair

It's not hard to stitch multiple shots together.

As our OP said, without a tilt shift, it's a bit difficult.

 

[480sparky]

As our OP said, without a tilt shift, it's a bit difficult.

Some softwares deal with keystoning better than others. One can always do a perspective correction on the individual images before stitching.

 

[ruifo]

As our OP said, without a tilt shift, it's a bit difficult.

Have you tried? it is not difficult. Photoshop does it for you in 4-5 minutes. Other softwares as well.