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The most important tip is, if you don't follow any of the tips in this article, or have already taken your photos, just send us your individual images and we'll see what we can do to produce a stunning panoramic canvas photo like Tom's(NSW) panorama of Megavissey Harbour in Cornwall. Our stretched canvas prints can be custom sized so we can create a frame to suit your exact requirements when creating panoramic canvas photos.
Unlike specialist fields, such as macro or portrait photography good panoramic images can be produced with a basic digital camera alone, no accessories are required. How many images you take to produce your panoramic canvas is up to you, but there are just a few things to think about when shooting images that will be “stitched” together to produce a panoramic panel. If you have a tripod, use it and make sure it is level, I know it's a pain to carry around but it really is worth it. You need to maximise the amount of vertical space in the frame, shooting at different levels can lead to narrow panels once the images are stitched together resulting in long thin panoramic canvases that look out of proportion on the wall. Don't forget you can shoot your images for a panoramic panel in a vertical format. Yes, you have more images to stitch together (but the digital editor at Achia doesn't charge you for that) the advantage is less perspective distortion. Make sure each frame taken overlaps the previous by 25-30% the extra margin will help line up the images for stitching whatever software is used. Take off your circular polarizer. Set too strongly you will end up with banding in the sky as the edges of the frame will be darker. Filters also have the effect of vignetting (darkening of image edges), which means extra work in the stitching process to even the bands out. In most situations turn off auto-exposure, auto-focus, auto white balance or any other autos you have. You want each image of the panoramic run to be taken with the same settings. Now that most of us are digital, repeat the run again, and again. Try different settings. Be aware of moving objects that may end up in more than one image. If the waves and the seaweed move don't worry, we'll fix it. If you have taken our advice and are repeating the panoramic run a few times it's a good idea to identify the groups of images for each panoramic panel. Take a photo of your hand or other object at the end of each run. When you see your hand you know the previous images are intended to be stitched.
Tom sent us two images to stitch together to produce his panoramic canvas. Overlaid you can see that not much vertical space is lost and there is plenty of image to overlap, making it easier for us to match up the two images. A number of objects are repeated in both images, not because they have moved but due to the different perspective of each image shot. A little digital manipulation and the results were perfect.
Thank you Tom for letting us show case your panoramic canvas. |