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Hello All

Just wanted some help on this. I tried to take some panoramic shots today but noticed I failed miserably when I saw them on the monitor :bonk:

Can someone give me some tips??

I mounted the camera on a tripod and start shooting so the photo will overlap slightly. I only tried 180 degrees to start with!

My main problem was each picture had a slightly different lighting to each other. Some were not too bad but there was 1 that was way too dark. Even if I sorted the lighting out in photoshop, some of the object just wont join up (say a car, when a picture ends on a car, in the next photo the car will be bigger/taller or higher/lower :shrug:)
I think the main reason for the bit that wont join was because I used the sigma 10-20 @10mm so the picture was distorted!! but I just want to confirm it really is this.

How do I get the same lighting thru out the shoot?
Do I only shoot in mild lighting??? (my shoot today was sunny) what if my only chance was a sunny day?
Which mode should I use and what setting?

I would really like to do one of these as I have seen some amazing work on here!
 
Did you shoot with the same aperture/shutter speed/iso an so on?

You probably need to have the camera on manual and set to about f/11 to f/16 and keepthe shutter speed set to what ever the meter tells you in the first shot.

Also how are you trying to join them? Which program?

Post an example and it will help tons more.
 
Shoot on manual and don't change the settings between shots.

Ideally shoot at 50mm or more.

Overlap the shots by at least 1/3
 
Make sure ALL your settings are on manual (don't forget stuff like auto-ISO if you have it as well) Panoramas with the 10-20mm are easy. Take one photo, and crop the top and bottom in Photoshop. Instant panorama!

Otherwise, follow the tips above:)
 
Cool I will try and get some examples

I am using photoshop to join them.

So Manual, F11 to 16 and keep the same shutter as the first picture!
But if I keep the same shutter speed, wont some picture be over exposed and some under?? I am gussing it's best to shoot in mild lighting or when the sun is above you for this.
What if the sun is to one side and you are shooting towards it?
 
Avoid shotting into the sun otherwise A) you'll have too much glare and B) the sides of your panorama will be pitch dark (if you've exposed your manual settings correctly for the lighter areas.

I do technical landscape pano's for my work.

I get my 'base' exposure setting from the frame that is pointing at my subject as that's the most important aspect that needs to be exposed correctly. I then set the camera to manual at the given Shutter speed/F-stop and also set the focus to manual.

I then start shooting from the extreme left of my desired pano and work left to right, overlapping by 1/2 a frame (i.e the centre of my previous frame becomes the LH edge of my next frame).

Shoot your frames as quickly as possible so you don't get changign light conditions in each frame.

Presto.
 
Use a panoramic camera such as the Hasselblad X-pan, which is 35mm, or a Fuji 617 which is a rollfilm camera - quality like you will not believe (the X-Pan is basically a slice from a 6x7 and the 617 is a slice from a 10x8!)

The X-pan will give grain free enlargements to 2m long and the 617 could go on for miles and miles!
 
in addition to the above advice, shoot with the camera in protrait.
 
It sounds like you are trying to join the photos by hand. Photoshop has a function called Photomerge that will do all off the hard work for you. Just import all of the images, sit back and crop when it's done. I did a 360 degree panorama of my room in 25 mins
 
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