1st panorama attempt

[macstrat]

My First Panorama attempt using the photoshop method that was on the blog a few days ago

[ike]

Nice shot,

I love the way the tractor eats up the frame, but its a shame you chopped its roof off,

I really love the vividness of the sky, its a shame the horizon isnt level, but i think this is shot on a hill? which would explain the horizon,

Keep going with the pano's.

What equipment did you use?

ike,

[macstrat]

it was shooting downhill. i used a Samsung GX-1L, standard lens with a Haze filter

[clockdoc]

Nice work! Did you find that the processing time was excessively long? Seems I read that the Photoshop pano process took a bit longer than anticipated. How many scenes did you combine?

[macstrat]

this shot was 3 separate RAW images. in my macbook pro which i use to process it took less than a minute using photomerge. the only problems that i have run into using this method are that if the colors arent exact (even a couple shades off) then it leaves light black streaks. most of them can be edited out with the Patch or Healing brush, but its a royal pain. usually they dont show up until you zoom out.

[clockdoc]

Thanks for the follow-up info. Since you have the Mac equivalent downloaded, give it a try. I don't think it will handle RAW as I have only use jpg's with Autostitch. I have never had the line problem that you spoke of. Here is one made up of 12 images taken on a Kodak 3.1 MP camera. I mounted the camera on a tripod and did a complete circle of the Atrium of our church, then stitched it with Autostitch.

[macstrat]

nice, i like that there are no stitch marks. i will defiantly give it a try next time

[ike]

Clockdoc - That image is one of the reasons for me starting to shoot panoramics, but i did landscapes instead...

macstrat - with the line issue in photoshop, try zooming in as much as you can when all images are merged together, i would get the same problem but with white lines instead, then you can scroll across and clone out the errors,

ike,