On 5/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't mean the stitching together part; I have PS books that tell me how > to do that. And I am good enough with PS (Elements anyway) that I figure that > part would not be a major problem. > > So how do you guys do panoramas anyway? Up until now I have not been > tempted, but the other day I came across a scene that would have worked well. > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/field2.htm > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/field1.htm > > Tripod always, right? Is a level needed? > > How do you make sure that you remain on the same plane (get the horizon on > the same plane)? > > If you were going to shoot a 180 degree shot, how many pictures do you think > it would take? How much do you try to overlap? > > I am totally clueless on this one. >
You should have been at GFM last year to hear Mark's lecture on the subject. I was pretty much nodding off during most of it, as personally I have no interest in panos, but I recall him saying that the "less work" you make the programme do, the better results you're likely to get, and faster, too. I do recall him saying something about the nodal point of lenses (must like Bill said). One can get special panning heads for that purpose, IIRC. I forget (or rather, never heard) the rest of what Mark said, but he showed lots of pretty pictures... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
