For a spherical pano a regular monopod and ballhead is perfect: http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/blog-mainmenu-97/85-mono-pano-pod
Toine On 23 November 2012 17:32, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > 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 <to...@repiuk.nl> 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 <christ...@caguila.com> 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 >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> 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 >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
