The speech of the panorama is very long but I will try to simplify as much as possible.
often reads that it is necessary to take some decent panoramic tripod and a special panoramic head. Assuming that the stand is always a great help and often the only way to get perfect results, but I am convinced that for the pan, with a little 'practice, even if they can do without.
The important thing is to take a reference in the frame and then follow him. In this the focus points are particularly useful because they give you references arranged symmetrically inside the viewfinder. For
I use the example above points to keep the horizon at a constant height in the frame but not only, also use them to calculate the portion of the photos must overlap with the previous frame and the next one to get a final image without holes .
To this end, just be careful at the horizon from the point of focusing more closely and try to maintain this height unchanged. To calculate the overlap
right side instead use the more points available and I do so, for example, taking the sequence to merge from left to right, the point is located where the left side in the photo above was the right side.
course much depends on the model of car that are using.
The difference between my EOS 40D and 5D, to cite one example, is notable in that the second points are grouped at the very center of the viewfinder.
Another trick that we must take is to maintain constant exposure because otherwise the pieces will have an overview of the different light and reveal the points where the various images were merged.
After you take the photos necessary to return the entire portion of the landscape that we are interested just pass it through Photoshop.
I recommend, it is best to stay loose because it is better to have a frame of that one too less, the same holds true for the height: one must always take into account the fact that there will be a beautiful piece pan that will cut and it is ugly to be cut into sections that should be there only because it has misjudged the final effect. A tip
result of my personal experience: those photographs to be attached vertically rather than horizontally. The reason is easily explained. It is often used to merge multiple pictures just because we want to exceed the shorter focal length available. Now, however, if we keep the focus of this limit vertical field of view we have only one photo much larger than normal but still much higher than a single photo taken with this objective.
An example to understand this better. A 50mm on a 35mm camera (full frame digital for friends) will cover an angle of 40 degrees horizontally and 27 degrees vertically. if we will join a series of shots in the horizontal theory in this sense we will have no limit and we will also cover 360 degrees, but vertical and always cover only 27 degrees, saving the need to crop the panorama. If, however, will shoot in portrait photos to be joined will cover 40 degrees in that direction, and the final panorama will look again with a goal less than the focal length of 35mm.
Of course, it will take more shots but it will cover more area in height and will have a final file with more resolution. An example of the panoramic
I did the Roman amphitheater Lecce: is the union of 13 pictures taken vertically with 5D and 24-105mm, which produced a final overview of 52 megapixels.
The latest versions of Photoshop, inter alia, have greatly facilitated the union of the frames by providing a specific function dediacata to this technique.
File -> Automate -> Photomerge. There are different modes of union but I find that the automatic is nearly always perfect. You select all the photos you want to join and the program does the rest.
the end that will not crop the image obtained by removing the parts and the empty landscape will be done!
