On 14/04/2010, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > That's good, any more like this and I'll have to start working on doing > panos.
Hi Larry, I try not to be overly conscious about shooting panos, if I see something that might benefit from the process I just shoot a few overlapping frames, if it works to stitch great, otherwise I generally still have purposefully composed single shots. The best way yo get into it is to buy a decent package like Autopano Pro, you can then test the pano sets very easily, it really negates the tedium. Though I should say that any pano that I really want to do well I still hand assemble in Hugin (though I'm pissed with it at the moment as the blend application generating random 1 pixel lines through my 100MP composites) > I'm impressed that the street lights aren't blown out. That's without HDR > even? Yep, most often I just pick a manual exposure which doesn't blow too much of the detail of the brighter objects and shoot, shooting HDR is a bit of a PITA > Do you find that doing the same shot as a pano rather than with a wider lens > reduces noise? It doesn't seem to be significantly reduced in the blended areas however of course you have an image with far more pixels in the composite so noise per AOV is reduced (compared to a single shot with a lens of equivalent AOV). Thanks for the comments everyone, I have lots more panos but I'll rest them for a while ;-) Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
