Vertical photos give you more vertical resolution but you have to take more photos than if you would take horizontal photos.
Think carefully whether you should take the photos in landscape or portrait orientation. With the raw format you can for example adjust the exposure and white balance afterwards. The raw format gives you flexible processing possibilities. Clouds can also move and change very quickly. If the sun is setting or rising, you should hurry because the lighting changes rapidly.
This kind of equipment is especially needed when there is the same close by subject in several photos.) Photograph Fast Enough This way you can avoid parallax error and get more accurate results. (There are special camera heads for panorama photography where the camera can be placed so that it turns around the optical center of the lens. I used Manfrotto 460MG camera head when taking the example photo of this article. It's good if the camera head is a three-way head where each axis is separately controlled by an individual lock. If there is a bubble-spirit glass in the tripod or camera head, you can use that. Before taking the photos pan the camera and check that it is on level so that the horizon stays in the same place in each photo. With a tripod you can guarantee that photos are precisely next to each other and that the camera stays in the same location. Use a TripodĪ tripod is a very useful tool when taking photos to create a panorama. If you have too little overlapping, the photos can't be stitched seamlessly and if you have too much overlapping, you have to take very many photos to create a wide panorama. Photoshop's Photomerge requires that photos overlap 25% - 40%. I recommend that photos should overlap at least 25%. Take photos so that they partly overlap with each other. However, I don't recommend to try this, but to take photos so that they overlap at least 25%. In this example photos are overlapping less than 25% and Photomerge still stitches them. Three partly overlapping photos of the town of Molyvos. In practice it means that you turn off automatic settings of the camera and set the white balance manually. Remember to keep the white balance the same in each photo. Don't use zoom or change lens between photos. Keep the focal length the same in each photo.
If there is no manual focus in the camera, take that into account and use other means to ensure that the focusing distance stays the same in each photo.
In practice it means that you have to use manual settings in the camera so that the shutter speed, aperture and ISO sensitivity are the same in each photo. Take some test photographs of different parts of the view to find the optimal exposure. Remember that the darkest and lightest spot of the panorama view isn't often in the same photo. Choose the right: Landscape or portrait?Ĭhoose carefully the right exposure for the panorama.Take photos so that they partly overlap.Don't change the white balance between the photos.Don't change the focal length between the photos.Don't change the focus between the photos.Don't change the exposure between the photos.Here is my list of things that are worth noticing when photographing panoramas. Photos can be stitched automatically if they have been taken with care and certain things have been taken into account. The stitching of photos is an easy task for example with Photshop's Photomerge tool which stitches photos seamlessly and automatically. I don't discuss here manual stitching because the stitching can nowadays be done automatically with an appropriate software.
Here I discuss how to create a horizontal one row panorama picture.Ī panorama photo is created by taking multiple adjacent photos and using a digital image processing software to stitch them into one photo. The high resolution makes it possible to create large high quality prints. A panorama photo of the medieval castle of Molyvos (Lesbos, Greece) that is created with Photomerge.īy taking multiple photos and stitching them into one panorama photo one can create photos with an exceptionally high resolution and wide view.