Panoramo, guides and help if poss please

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I have access to an office block roof early next week and wanted to do a panorama of the City centre.

is there any guides out there on how to do this at 5pm at night with Canon 40d and 18-55 non is kit lens. Tripod will also be used with shutter release cable.
 
davidh6781 said:
I have access to an office block roof early next week and wanted to do a panorama of the City centre.

is there any guides out there on how to do this at 5pm at night with Canon 40d and 18-55 non is kit lens. Tripod will also be used with shutter release cable.
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keep the tripod dead level...
set your camera to manual and choose after some test shots fixed settings for the pano
shoot and allow an overlap at things which can be stitched later
try and not get stuff on the roof in the shot as it will detract
set the focus if possible on just back from infinity if not then hope each shot can focus itself ok...i focus on an object and then hold the focus as i re set the position of the camera..since its at night...you may need to set up a fixed focus if you can...and since on tripod...f8 at around 30-50 metres should capture it all
dont use to wide and angle lens or you will get a roller coaster finish
55mm should be ok...i think
i have only done daylight and only about 4 frames wide...i think wider can give a too letterbox result
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Why not try putting your camera at 90 degrees so each picture is in portrait format. Then when you stitch them together you will have a slightly better proportioned panorama that may not be so wide and narrow.
 
Digital_Clarity said:
Why not try putting your camera at 90 degrees so each picture is in portrait format. Then when you stitch them together you will have a slightly better proportioned panorama that may not be so wide and narrow.
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will try this...sort of upright pano...thanks
 
i was going to ask about portrait position, i read that last night.

Ok so 55mm and manual focus. which i was going to do any way due to it been at night. rough exposure time or should i just try a few different ones?
 
I First get a decent exposure in Av mode at the aperture I'll be using then put it in full manual mode and dial in the shutter and aperture value so the exposure is constant across the pano (take all panos in portrait). Then a bright light (or the sun) doesn't fool the camera into underexposing.
 
Sounds like a plan. i will have a practice tomorrow evening as i have access then too. don't want to spend too much time up there as people may think i am going to jump off lol.
 
Now the WB will confuse the issue lol. I haven't ventured away from Auto WB yet. Gunna have to get the Field guide out.
 
make sure you lock your exposure. One shot might be brighter than another. Check out my post 'Bangkok by night' http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=181868 . It was 4 photos stitched together. How will you be stitching them? I used Photoshop cs4 automate method. Its really easy. Mrcrow is right about wide angles. Dont shoot too wide!!. Dont forget about your white balance either - make sure it suits your time of day. When Ive not got my remote cable with me I tend to set the camera on self timer to ensure a still shot.
 
My most successful panos have been where I have left a really big overlap between each picture. The reason for this is that the perspective between the left and right sides of a photo are vastly different, and stitching photos together that barely overlap doesn't give such pleasing results due to this difference.
 
Yeah, take photos that overlap by at least a 3rd, it makes the stitching process a lot easier. And make sure your camera is level or you'll end up with a sloping panorama that you'll have to crop substantially. I'd use a focal length of around 35mm as that's what is most true to the human eye.
 
ok thank you, for stitching it will be cs4. I was thinking on doing more overlap, i tried my mums garden (its bigger than mine) with very little over lap and it loooked funny. well crap to be honest lol.
 
The last two panoramas I did that I was happy with probably overlapped by about 80%. They were merged using Photoshop (CS3 in my case), and suffered very little distortion or funny effects.
 
cool thank you. just trying to get in my head before i go up there and some one calls police and thinks i have had enough lol. don't think my employer would appreciated it
 
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