undies
Member
I decided to play with the new Photomerge feature in Photoshop CS3. This tool automates the process of creating panoramic shots. I manually set the aperture and shutter on my Canonet QL17 GIII, and then panned across a scene snapping six photos from a fixed vantage point. I fed the results into Photomerge and got this (after cropping):
Click here for a slightly larger version.
Overall it worked pretty well, but you can clearly see dark areas where each image was merged. Is there anything I could do with the camera to reduce this problem (such as a different aperture), or some special P-shop magic that can fix it?
Click here for a slightly larger version.
Overall it worked pretty well, but you can clearly see dark areas where each image was merged. Is there anything I could do with the camera to reduce this problem (such as a different aperture), or some special P-shop magic that can fix it?
rogue_designer
Reciprocity Failure
Shoot your multiple exposures vertically - the exposure difference and any distortion from the lens will be minimized.
You can also do a manual photo merge, with layer masks which will allow you to use localized exposure correction on the "seams" when in photoshop.
You can also do a manual photo merge, with layer masks which will allow you to use localized exposure correction on the "seams" when in photoshop.
nksyoon
Well-known
I've only used it once, but I don't see very obvious exposure differences, even though I shot in aperture priority mode. I think photomerge does some exposure equalization. Could it be lens vignetting? Maybe try shooting with more overlap between images so that the program has more to work with?
My sample:
Larger (2000 pixels wide): http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2200/1526661240_ce4bb6922d_o.jpg
My sample:
Larger (2000 pixels wide): http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2200/1526661240_ce4bb6922d_o.jpg
