The EASIEST way to SHOOT and STITCH PANOS + A Lightroom Secret
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2020
- Creating panoramas is really easy with Lightroom and these simple tips. How I get amazing 100MP+ photos with handheld shots.
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Stitching is so essential for a photographers tool belt. Makes you see compositions differently and get creative with your lenses
Thank you Nigel for explaining my question about hand held panos. You did an excellent job, you are a master instructor.
i really appreciate this Nigel and the timing is straight out synchronistic; heading out in another 3 hours for a night shoot and will be implementing what you've taught here then. Love your style as well; thank you!! Stay well!
Nigel, just want to say thank you so much for this tutorial! I was recently asked to attempt a panoramic shot for an estate agent; today was the day and on arrival, the homeowner explained that what he wanted was a 180° pano!!! 😲 One to be shot internally and one externally - the property sits on a peninsula, with sea views either side, and he wanted this to be captured. So, armed with the knowledge from your tutorial, i proceeded to take 15 shot pano's - not at all convinced that it would work, but it did! Photoshop did an astounding job and there weren't too many aberrations to clone out :) So thank you again - without your tutorial i wouldn't have had a hope in hell of achieving the brief! 👌
Thanks! I've been naively groping my way towards this on my own. So glad to see an expert doing it, and to see how it's done. The tips for held-held were really helpful.
Thanks Nigel, I have just had a go at this and am really pleased with the results! I liked the result better than using a wider angle lens, and the vertical option I hadn’t even considered. A really helpful tutorial 👍
So many considerations for better shots that seem obvious when you hear them for the first time! Thanks so much Nigel!
just what i was looking for how to stitch in light room, but more importantly love how you explain things in simple terms much appreciated
so glad I watched this Nigel. I don't use LR (On1), and never really taken panos, but watched this as you always teach me something in your vids. Your tip on using stitching to add real estate to an image other than pano was golden, thank you. I even tried it in On1 and found it worked well.
Thank you Nigel. This is really helpful. The explanation is clear. I appreciated how you showed the image and then overlaid the frames for the individual images. You answered all the questions I would have asked. I look forward to your next video.
Definitely worth the five star rating on that final image Nigel.
Lightroom certainly is an amazing tool for stitching multiple images together.
Thanks for sharing your time again.
Another very informative video Nigel. I've been doing stitching for years (using Hugin and sometimes LR), but I still picked up a few very helpful pointers here. Thanks for your continuing content on YT. It's all amazingly-well produced and hugely informative. I'm working my way through your back catalogue! Thank you for being so open with your knowledge. Not only are you a great landscape photographer, but you're a great teacher too. I must try to get on one of your workshops.
Needed this in my life. Have been looking for an easy tutorial on panoramic photography and editing. Big thanks!!!!
Nigel, thanks for explaining your processes. I had not thought of incorporating bracketing. Something new I’ll have to try. Thanks again.
Thank you Nigel, this is just what I needed this evening as I’m trying to create a panorama photo. It’s not working in photoshop which is where I thought you had to do it. But Lightroom has done it perfectly 👍
Yay. Thanks for doing this Nigel, great to go over your complete process. Thanks 🙏
Thanks for a great instructional pano video! I had several questions and can't wait to give it another go!
Nigel thanks a lot for taking the time to teach us this for free,That means a lot to us
Thank you, Nigel, for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Thank you, Nigel! Very informative and useful content, I will definitely use this technique on my next outing here in Ontario, Canada.
I'm glad you recommend handheld Nigel, because I can never get it right on the tripod, especially with seascapes down here in Cornwall. It's a really useful reminder of the benefits of doing these huge pano files. I'll miss the midweek tutorials!
Beautifully explained as always! Thanks for covering this topic.
Perfect - Thanks so much for explaining this I cannot wait to go and try it out.
Great video! I didn’t know about vertical stitching in Lightroom…
Thanks for the practical and inspiring tips to capture the concerning images. 👌
This tool is a game changer. Absolutely incredible! Thanks for your help!
I really appreciate your videos, just got back into photography and I'm learning so much. Thanks
On a few occasions, when the LR/ACR pano doesn't work, opening the files as layers in Photoshop and using the Edit->Auto-Align menu will. It adds additional 'projections' of Collage, Reposition and Auto to those found in ACR/LR. Typically, Reposition works for me when ACR fails. Since this will not save in DNG a somewhat different workflow may be necessary, such as a bit of image prep in ACR/LR before loading into PS layers.
Always look forward to your posts ... keep 'em coming!
Thanks I had one that wouldn't work in L/R so will do your suggestion. Other than that I will need to do it manually.
Most helpful! Practical solutions to some issues I've had of recent. Cheers from America!
Thanks for the tips Nigel, I have had success with panos but I have learnt a few extra tips when it comes to letting Lightroom do the work. :)
I had to try this on my Olympus OM-D E-M1ii. While I had used the merge to panorama in Lightroom before I wasn't aware that you could use it as you demonstrated. I tried this out handheld in our back garden which has a few fruit trees and feeders and some furniture. I was amazed at how well it was all stitched together - Lightroom struggled with a power cable that runs across our garden so I did a rough and ready clone to get rid of the line as it was disjointed. I think this must be similar to the inbuilt HiRes mode in the camera which uses pixel shift to produce an 80Mb Raw file but to achieve this my camera has to be on a tripod. The DNG from Lightroom was 75Mb so this gives me another way of producing a high resolution image - very impressed. Thanks Nigel.
Think I’ll give pano’s a try having watched this. I’m predominately a landscape photographer but never really had the interest in pano’s, until now!
Thx for piquing my interest Nigel 👍
Thanks for the extra tips re taking pics on shooting the panoramas. I didn't realise you could go across and then come back again. I did enjoy myself taking 10 shots of the mountains here in Mt Hutt, New Zealand. A Polariser was a must due to the snowy mountains. My new computer has no problem stitching them in lightroom with some extra tips from you. Ill send the pic under the hashtag you mentioned. I do love panoramas. Worth printing, framing and putting on the wall. Thanks so much once again.
Thank you Nigel, you’re a great teacher!
Thank you Nigel, I learnt a lot from this i.e exposure stacking and the vertical double take, very helpful!
Another excellent video - you are very generous with your knowledge - many thanks for sharing!
Excellent tutorial! it can be also useful to mark the start and end of the sequence by taking a photo of something easily recognisable, like a completely black photo (cap on the lens). I take a photo of my hand at the start and at the end of a sequence, but I haven’t yet tried with pano....
I do the same, otherwise when I get to processing I forget what I had done. Must be old age!lol
@@nicknichols4249 that’s smart! I’m going to start doing this
Hi Nigel. One thing you might have mentioned - and it looks like you did it yourself - I recommend that you shoot with the identical manual exposure (or identical brackets for HDR Pano) across all exposure frames. Otherwise, in auto mode, as you pan from lighter to darker areas of the scene, the exposure will vary, which may introduce some problems in the stitching and editing process. I've used this process quite a lot in panos to good effect. Also, when shooting architectural images, or any that have straight lines, it's helpful to keep the vertical axis straight; otherwise, Lightroom sometimes has trouble lining up the convergences from one frame to the next. Thanks, and as always, lovely work. ... P.S. I recently acquired an Olympus OM Zuiko 35mm f2.8 shift lens, adapted to my EOS 6D; it's unique, in that it has the capability of shifting in both the horizontal and vertical mode simultaneously. I can create an 3x3 matrix pano that effectively creates a 24mm perspective with high resolution and no distortion, since there is no change in perspective as you shift the framing. It's a fabulous lens.
Very helpful, Nigel! I'd always assumed that a tripod was required to create a pano. I'll give this a go the next time I get out shooting!
Nigel, Excellent instructional video. Learned a lot. Thank You
Thanks for the tips, Nigel! Will try that! 👍🏻
I sent a comment to you week or so ago about stitching a multi-role panorama for a client here in San Francisco, to which you responded, if you recall... When I first started stitching eons ago I was using the original Pano Tools program...it was developed by a German ( I think) mathematician and it was a real bear to use, requiring constant manipulation to get a satisfactory image, and requiring a good tripod and panno head. That program has been refined several times to a point that you can pretty much hand hold a camera and get a satisfactory result. BUT (and this relates to something you said in your video) a tripod, good pano head & nodal point calibration, are required if there's something in the foreground up-close-and-personal that is part of your composition..
I use a Manfrotto spherical head & Bellerbach wooden tripod when I know I am out to shoot a panorama..it's not a kit I want to schlep around much as it adds about 15 pounds to my burden, and at the ripe old age of 73 every ounce makes a huge difference.
Used that set up years ago when the Queen Mary came through the Golden gate bridge... It was a huge huge event and I stationed myself on a hill with a couple of trees in the left part of the frame and shot a single row 10 image panorama that came out perfectly. The manfrotto head is a precision instrument and when I set up the click stops for the appropriate overlap I was able to take those 10 images in very rapid succession without even thinking... A real asset as everything was in flux and moving in all directions... Being a Nikon shooter I have always used their 60 mm macro lens as it had a very flat field of view and was very sharp.... Now I use the Nikon Z50 mm with my Z7.
Thanks Nigel for the lovely tutorial .
I routinely use LR for panos but never tried the vertical tiles you showed. Will give this a try, and thanks for the excellent videos.
Great tips and advice as always! Excellent video! 👍🏻
Panorama in Lightroom is just magical. Adobe never ceased to amaze me with that option.
When I went for the Harry Potter tour last year I took a huge "pano" shot of the model Hogwarts castle and it flawlessly stitched them all together and I promptly discovered that the bottom wasn't properly in focus, which Lightroom still catered for.
Brilliant Nigel fantastic info 👍 thankyou for sharing
Thanks Nigel loved the Lightroom tips another great vid cheers
Great video, looking forward to putting into practice. Thank you ND.
This is brilliant ... and no, I did not know that Lightroom secret. Many thanks.
This was really helpful for me Nigel! I noticed you were doing war handheld in the field lately. If you haven’t already, I would love to see a video with some tips on taking handheld images. I don’t mind taking my gear along but every once in a while I need to travel super light but seem to be stick to my tripod. Thanks!!
Was looking for something like this and it definitely helped!
Thanks Nigel, something new for me to try given you have made it look so easy...
It is really easy...
this is gold for beginners..thanks a lot
Thank you for the detailed explanation, well received!!!
Super helpful tutorial! Thanks for the tips.
Excellent video!! Thank you for this tutorial. I already use this technique for panos but I couldn't stitch more lines. I ll try this out
Lol, I was thinking the exact same question when watching that video. I am really glad you made this video. Although I don't have a proper camera and have to use my phone for photography, this will also help me generate much higher quality photos.
Yep - I do it will my phone all the time. On the 2x optical zoom camera
this opens so many possibilities for me! come on down to South Africa!
I have tried using the pano feature in cameras and have always deleted them immediately afterwards. But now being able to create them myself to my liking - yes! Thanks very much!
Awhile ago I was using a tilt-shift lense and using the shift part (usually horizontal) to do a wider shot. But I never tried tiers so will give it ago. Thanks.
Thanks, Nigel. Great techniques there re pano's - fabulous results! Good to hear about #2020ND :)
Thank you for another great video!
Thank you for the tutorial, Nigel
Great intro to pano - thank you.
Awesome. Glad I saw this before buying my first expensive lens.
Thank you Nigel. Good one ☝️
Brilliant video, really useful!
I'm always waiting for the latest video about Lightroom
I thought panoramas were so much harder to create, thank you so much for the video!
You teach me so much. Thank you
Thanks a bunch Nigel really useful 👌
Thanks Nigel. Very helpful.
Simply excellent
Thanks Nigel for excellent tips! Take care. Regards Kent
Thanks for the shooting tips. Some I knew and use but picked up some additional ideas. As I won't use Adobe because of their subscription only model I either stitch panos in Affinity Photo or use Hugin which gives you control over the Control points used in the stitching and ,although haven't tried blending exposures as well as stitching I think it can do that too. Best of all it's free!!
Great video beautiful work
Thanks.I like using pano tool because it preserves perspective. I also love my superwide lens but you often loose drama. Using a longer lens eg 35 -70ish vertically allows you to encompas the width while preserving the perspective an height of mountains.
Great video Nigel thanks a lot for your precious advice and all the heart you put into it. Sharing the why and not just the how really makes it so special. Do you find Lightroom sufficient enough to fix stitching errors (scene motion, haloing) or do you often end up using Photoshop ?
Didn’t know you could do this. I’ll be trying this the next time I’m out.
Hi, Thanks for the enlightening video! You mentioned exposure bracketing: Will LR also choose the best exposure in a bracket (for best average exposure across the panorama) while stitching together a given scene, or do you select the best exposures before stitching?
Great Video!
Great video! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. Some useful tips on creating Pano's. I'd like to see the tutorial on making HDR pano's including taking the images in the field.
Thanks Nigel. I'll experiment with more overlap in future. Seascapes and the moving waves have their own additional challenges with multi-shot stitching. Do you always use MANUAL exposure?
Thanks for this info Nigel very helpful. To be honest I wish I’d checked this out much sooner 👍
Glad it was helpful!
great video!
Wow, thank you so much.
Nice video very informative!
Thanks for the tip on LR for pano’s Nigel
Thanks, I use this quite frequently, it even works well with my mobile.
I never know I can stitch both horizontal and vertical. I should try this out
2 tips from me, I always use 'cmd+shift+/' and key in pano to search for the action, this way I dun need to memorize where that action fits into the menu.
another tip, I always use the auto stack, just make me manage the tiles easier.
I was just starting to get comfortable in my mediocrity and now this! I guess I’ll have to up my game again, LOL. Great vid and as usual, I learned a bunch of stuff I didn’t know, but then, there’s my mediocrity kicking in again. 😂😂😂 You rock dude! thx.
Thank You for sharing
Great vid nigel, I use this technique a bit but I have to set half a day aside for my computer to render the image! Need an upgrade but the wife won't let me! Lol! All the best Andy
Been there Andy! Luckily' our monitor and computer went wrong in quick succession (No I didn't fix it!) and so it gave me the perfect excuse to upgrade to a BenQ monitor and get at least a reasonable spec Dell computer. made things so much easier although 8+ photo panos do take a little time to stitch.
Thanks man!
best tutorial ever, simple, excellent explained and easy to do ::) i just love the photograph itself!!!!
Great video bro 😎
That’s a great image, for sure. When you’re taking each of the individual frames that make up a stitched image like this, what focusing method do you use with your Z7? Do you go with S-mode AF to let the camera decide? Or do you choose a single focal point in each shot? If so, where do you place your focus?
Thanks a lot!
Do you ever have to manually stitch an image? Would love to see a clear tutorial on how to do that, for when the Lightroom or Photoshop functions don't work so well.
Thanks!