Stitch Chicago together...

cdonovancdonovan Registered Users Posts: 724 Major grins
edited December 15, 2006 in Landscapes
One shot at a time C&C welcome!!!
stitched_chicago_1_1_2.jpg

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited December 12, 2006
    cdonovan wrote:
    One shot at a time C&C welcome!!!

    Don't you just love that view of downtown? Nothing like it anywhere else.

    I can see the seams pretty clearly in the sky though. You might want to do some additional PP work to make them less obvious.

    Regards,
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  • cdonovancdonovan Registered Users Posts: 724 Major grins
    edited December 13, 2006
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Don't you just love that view of downtown? Nothing like it anywhere else.

    I can see the seams pretty clearly in the sky though. You might want to do some additional PP work to make them less obvious.

    Regards,


    Yes the seams :cry
    How does one do that succesfully, they are noticeable in the clouds, and i certainly dont want to mess them up...any suggestions?
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited December 13, 2006
    cdonovan wrote:
    Yes the seams :cry
    How does one do that succesfully, they are noticeable in the clouds, and i certainly dont want to mess them up...any suggestions?
    Well, the first thing is to meter to a representative part of the scene then put your camera in manual mode so that the exposure is the same in each shot. You have to work quickly so that the light doesn't change.

    Nevertheless, I'm a little surprised at how much banding you got. Could it be an artifact of the software you used to do the stitching? Some time ago I did a similar pano in Chicago which I put together with Autostitch and there were no seams at all.

    If you are up for it, though, you could probably salvage the shot in Photoshop using a combination of cloning, healing brush and blur. It will be laborious, but since the sky is the problem, you don't have to be terribly exact in what you do.
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  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited December 13, 2006
    Richard gave a good explanation on how to do it but let me add a little. He said to put the camera in manual. That is corect, but not just manual exposure, manually set the White Balance and also set the focus and then put the camera in Manual Focus so the focus point doesn't change. That will get rid of any exposure and color differences. Plus it is a good idea to overlap your images by 20% on both sides. Then just throw your images into a program like PTGui and it will stitch them together for you. I've lived in Chicago for most of my life and still haven't taken a pano of downtown, I have to get out more.
    Nick
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited December 13, 2006
    gluwater wrote:
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    yes, what gw said above. Exactly right! And what he said about living here and never doing a pano of it... me too. long long overdue.
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    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
  • coldclimbcoldclimb Registered Users Posts: 1,169 Major grins
    edited December 15, 2006
    As far as the post work, I generally set the clone tool to less opacity and clone in some sky from nearby over the top of the dark streak. Or maybe do the stitches in layers and softly erase the edges by hand so the line isn't as clear. Maybe someone else knows a better way, but that's what I'd probably do here.
    John Borland
    www.morffed.com
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