Thanks Toine! I used the 40mm pancake lens. Settings were 1/100 sec at f11, ISO 80. I started snapping at 5:03p and finished up almost 5:05p, Florida time, so I had some nice afternoon light.
My first shot was the frame with the tree in it, and I worked to the right, moving the camera horizontally, and overlapping each frame about 50%. I read somewhere that's what you're supposed to do. As best I could, when I moved to the right, I eyed a linear path to follow when moving down the street to take the frames. I also made note of camera position and height and tried to repeat that from muscle memory as it were. These frame were handheld since I wasn't traveling with a tripod. After I was finished with the 5 shots of the art work, I decided to take the cafe on the left. I took 3 pictures there, trying to get a good expression and placement of the women working in the cafe. I really didn't have high hopes for that shot, since I snapped it out of sequence and didn't feel confident that I was close to the "linear line" I had followed for the 5 frames, but I got a little lucky there. When I tried to stitch these 6 frames in Photoshop, the interface made my black pickup on the far right into a convertible--yep, hood completely disappeared, and the back tire in the foreground had a chunk missing--as if some animal had taken a bite out of it. So I decided on this 3 frame crop, which I did in Lightroom after importing the complete 6 frame pano at full size into Lightroom. Actually, Toine, I have a question for you: a while back didn't you share a string method for aligning the camera when doing panos? I had saved that but I can't find it now. You wouldn't happen to have that information handy? Willing to share again? Please! :-) And to Dave Mann: I went to PTGui, and watched one of their tutorial videos, which was excellent. It helped me understand the process really well. If I start doing panos regularly, I just may purchase the software. So thanks for the heads up. And thanks to Rob, Paul, Jack and Dave B.! Cheers, Christine On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Toine <[email protected]> wrote: > A very beautiful shot. I would have guessed it's a pano sized crop. > > Which lens did you use? Did you move the camera horizontally for every shot. > > On 23 November 2012 08:17, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Everyone: >> >> This should have been 6 frames long, but Photoshop Elements 11 crunched the >> pick-up that was far right. lol. Looked really funny. But got a little >> lucky and was able to salvage some frames on the left. >> >> Dave Mann's nice panos made me want to stitch this up a little sooner than I >> had planned. Thanks for the inspiration, Dave, though this is no where near >> as nice as your recent set. >> >> >> From a street in Little Havana. >> >> http://www.caguila.com/miamipano/content/miamipano3_large.html >> >> Cheers, Christine >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
