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This morning I headed to my favourite location on the Isle of Skye for sunrise, the Quiraing, which sits on the north east of the island.
I wanted to go to a spot which I haven't shot from before to see if I could find some suitable compositions. After getting some 'new' shots, I switched to the 70-200mm lens to capture this panoramic.
Below the process image I have included the eight images (unprocessed) which were used to create the panoramic. For those who have never shot a panoramic and would like to give it a go, I have five main pieces of advice, which although are common sense, you'd be surprised how many people are tripped up by not thinking about them.
I wanted to go to a spot which I haven't shot from before to see if I could find some suitable compositions. After getting some 'new' shots, I switched to the 70-200mm lens to capture this panoramic.
Below the process image I have included the eight images (unprocessed) which were used to create the panoramic. For those who have never shot a panoramic and would like to give it a go, I have five main pieces of advice, which although are common sense, you'd be surprised how many people are tripped up by not thinking about them.
- Firstly, unless you're using specialised equipment like a nodal rail, your tripod has to be level. It's all fair and well your camera being level, however if it's rotating on a non level base (the tripod) then as you pan to take the shots you'll find that each subsequent shot will either be going uphill or downhill
- Shoot in a vertical orientation, this gives you much more room for cropping afterwards compared to shooting in a horizontal orientation
- Shoot in manual exposure mode. As you will see in the image below I have included two histograms, these are for the left and right most images. You will notice how the exposure for the first image is 'perfect' and the exposure for the last image looks underexposed. What I did here was set the exposure for the side of the frame which was the brightest, in this case the left side (as is evident by the brighter sky). As I was in manual exposure mode my exposure was now locked in for each subsequent frame. You will notice that on the right most frame I am only just touching the left side of the histogram, so have plenty of detail captured for processing
- When shooting panoramic from the tripod I always use manual focus. The main focal point of this image is the main hill roughly in the model of the frame, so I focused on that. As I was using the 70-200mm lens everything was at infinity anyway. You could probably get away with using autofocus, however it potentially means shifting the focus point for each frame and the light could change as you do that
- You need to make sure that there is enough overlap between each frame. If you look at the individual frames below, you will see that I have features repeating in the subsequent frame. This is so that the software has enough information to stitch all the images together. I suggest one third to a half of overlap (between being safe than sorry)
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