Correct Way to Shoot & Stitch Panos in Lightroom! (easy to get it wrong)
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2023
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In this week’s episode, we discuss what pros know about panoramas and beginners still avoid. I've always known about panorama photography from my beginner days, but I always looked at it as a way to just make really wide photographs. With this in mind, along with not being completely confident as to how to do it, I completely avoided it. In this video, I'll review the many reasons and situations where you might want to do a pano along with the correct on-location technique and how to stitch the photographs together using Lightroom. I hope you enjoy this week's video and as always thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.
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I always do panos in vertical mode, which results in a wide and tall image. The other critical tip is to remove any polarizers from your lens. In the beginning, I ruined panos when I left a CPL in place. Excellent video, Mark. Great explanation.
Yep, Agree, capturing in vertical gives you more cropping options 👍🏻
Same here, otherwise the pano often ends up too long and thin.
What’s the problem with CPL’s? Angle of light?
Yes, the polarization effect won't be uniform across the width of the image.
Thanks for the polarizer info. I did not know that.
I can solve that Rubik’s cube for you mate 😂
I always shoot my panos in portrait orientation. Gives you more room to work with on an image. I also use a nodal rail which reduces the parallax distortion of panos
It is Wednesday, another video from Mark and another change to learn something. Life is good. OK, the fact that my wife is cooking a steak dinner also helps to make it a great day.
VERY helpful!!! The best PANO presentation I’ve come across for beginners such as myself in pano. Thank you, Mark! ❤
i watched a webinar a while back and the photographer mentioned that she often shoots waterfalls in a panorama to help keep the grandiose perspective of the falls. I happened to have shot the same falls with a very similar composition in the past which really helped me to wrap my head around the technique. I used a wide angle to get the shot and I assume she shot much tighter with a 2 4 or 6 shot pano. Her shot completely showed the true scale of how grand the waterfall truly is, where mine , probably shot between 15-20, really made the falls look kind of small. This was dry falls in Highlands NC which you may know. I'm looking forward to getting back and trying some panos of places ive already shot to compare.
As always, thanks for the 411.
How does one effectively stitch a waterfall? Unless you used long exposure, I would think that the moving water between the shots would be quite noticeable without a lot of post-production work.
The panning while checking the histogram is a great tip! Good to keep in mind. Thanks for that!
Excellent video. I’ve shot a lot of panos but never slowed down enough to experiment with each option in such a disciplined way.
I take quite often in real estate photography. Initially had a multi level pano head over the focal center for parallax control and compass degrees for overlap, but now, just handhold for speed. Initially started with landscape mode like you did. Now portrait mode only. So much more control of the finish product, with greater sky and foreground, so much more area for cropping that rock position without being limited by the white boundaries limiting the frame. Also, no need to use boundary warp or other stretching due to the excess you have to work with. For framing each shot overlap, while the grid will give you thirds, I find a marker in the viewfinder. What is touching it - example, a tree - move the tree to the edge for the next shot and note what is hitting that marker for the next shot as it is moved to the edge.
Agree 100% with all of this! I also shoot most of my panos hand held, unless it’s a night pano or pre sunrise etc., and as long as you have your spirit level on in the viewfinder it works perfectly 😊
6:40 I use camera raw which I think uses the same merge engine, but I actually find perspective works very well for merging images taken with telephoto lenses (starting around 70mm full frame equivalent, and needing a higher focal length the more images I merge)
Interesting! I will try that 😊
Thanks Mark - you just eliminated the intimidating (for me) choices around those tools for doing panos. Now I have no more excuses to avoid the process! 👍
Awesome as always, Mark! (Please - never apologize for spending time to teach us valuable tips & tricks! You are always worthy of the time we invest in your tutorials!) I haven't done too much with panorama's but this has inspired me! I plan to experiment with this in the coming months (summer is coming!). Many thanks. Loved the tutorial. With love from Atlanta.
Superb vid, Mark. The most thorough tutorial on processing panos I've seen -- and I've seen a lot over the years!
Hi Mark, this presentation reminded me of the time when panoramas were created in the darkrooms. Just imagining the transition is overwhelming. Thanks for this post. Have a nice day!
Extremely helpful video Mark. Thanks for the in-depth presentation executed so clearly!!!! Can't wait to try it myself.😊
Mark, another thorough and very informative video. You really are an extra tool in my photography toolbox! Thank you
Fantastic video Mark and very good tips on working on Panoramas in Lightroom.
Awesome video Mark! Great info and a very helpful intro to stitching pano images. Thanks!
Fantastic video, used to do stitched panoramas many years ago but never kept up with it.
Definitely worth revisiting as a way to reinvigorate my photographic journey.
I love stitched panos - definitely worth getting back into it!
Great video, Mark, thanks. You really covered the options and the (potential) pitfalls.
I switched over to a modified fluid head with a leveling base that Hudson Henry touts on his channel. It works wonderful for shooting panoramas. Multi row and vertical panos are much easier because your always level.
Really clear examples Mark. Thanks!
Thanks for showing examples of the different options in Lightroom. Very instructive.
Good video. I also like to use the warp and content aware tools in Photoshop. That way you do not have to crop so heavy.
Mark, Great content, very helpful and educational. Many thanks and as always, keep snapping!
Another great video Mark, making this subject so interesting. I'm quite a lazy photographer really and despite being curious about panos, I've never bothered to do one before. Your video has changed my view and I'm now looking forward to trying it out.
Excellent review of the Photo Merge Panorama capabilities in Lightroom. I find that choosing spherical, versus cylindrical, versus perspective projections depends on the lens and focal length. I my experience wider focal lengths seem to work better with the spherical and cylindrical projections, whereas cylindrical and perspective work better with longer focal lengths.
Love your methodical approach of looking carefully at what each option does. Leads to very clear understanding of the why.
Had never considered telephoto pano. Going to try that on a city skyline.
Thanks for all the information on panos-- a lot of things I did not know!! Great video!!
Great walkthrough of all the options and how to use them best 👏🏻🙏🏻
Just what I needed to learn. Thanks so much for an excellent tutorial that is straightforward and concise.
Another great video, man. I'm jealous of your trip to Norway. It is hopefully on my list of places to shoot in the next few years. Thanks, as always, for taking the time to share your insight.
Thanks Mark, finally I think that I can tackle a pano. I’m now looking forward to it.
"Create Stack" is also a good option to select. A good way to keep the original files and the resulting pano organized.
Thanks for the helpful information Mark!👍
Extraordinarily well done! 👍👍👍
Good information, thank you! I've been perplexed with the "fill edges" setting, getting the ghosting and misplaced objects. I never though about using the stretch edges first then fill a smaller part with the "fill edges". Now I have some new techniques to try to improve my panoramas that I'm sure will do wonders for them.
Good stuff. I always shoot my panos as a series of vertical (portrait) images so that I have plenty of top/bottom room to play with when cropping.
Same here 😊
Nice!
Thanks for a informative video!
Have a good week!
Great video...good refresher. Haven't done them in awhile and only in Photoshop. Glad you can stay in Lightroom now.
Great video. Like others, I have used Pano but without understanding some of the differences and options you reviewed. I use it hand held, portrait orientation. It's important to use manual settings to ensure that all the images are exposed the same. I don't bother to fix the focus as, for anything at a distance, it's not going to change from shot to shot. I am jealous of how fast your computer processes these panos. Mine takes forever.
That’s a great point about shooting in manual (vs something like aperture priority) to avoid the exposure changing and giving you banding in the sky - I was surprised he didn’t mention that. And on focus, I’d agree, but if you’ve ever tried doing a pano in a woodland, where some elements are quite close to you, then making sure your depth of field is enough to ensure all elements are in focus becomes really important. I only discovered this by getting it wrong the first time!
Thank you for such an excellent, comprehensive tutorial!
That was brilliant! I've been wanting to give pano stitching a go for a while and this removes some of the fear that I had that it would be a complicated / difficult process. Thanks Mark!
Great timing on this one Mark. I have been trying my hand at stitching a pano recently. I will go back and try some of these tips. Beautiful images. Especially like the zoomed in one.
How are you getting on with it so far? I do love a stitched pano!
Excellent, Mark! Many thanks!
Excellent video Mark. I also shoot my panos in portrait orientation like the previous commentator. Never mind if you go long in your videos, it's always a pleasure to watch and listen to your expertise. Thank you for a great video. I really do appreciate that you explain the details in your videos, including all the options, as sometimes we might just get used to doing things a certain way and not realise that right in front of us is a button that makes our job so much easier, or improves the quality of our photo. I have learned a great deal from your videos because you put the effort into finding these details for your viewers :)
Thanks Mark! This is a great technique I will add to my work flow as I am learning LRC!
Another really interesting video Mark, thanks for sharing.
Great video. Your clear and succinct explanations make me want to go out and try this. Kudos
Another great video. Thanks!
Love the idea of a zoom pano great tutorial Mark.
I've played around with the pano feature, but this explains a lot!! Thanks for another great video!!
Thanks Mark. Great video as always. I have had good results with handheld pianos too both with my wide angle and my 70-200.
Once again another great video. Thank you
Interesting! I have always used the prespective option for the landscape. I shall try the other two options from now on
Very well explained,thank you
A very useful and inspiring video; thank you very much Mark!
Pano merge with settings 'perspective' is really useful when using tilt/shift lenses, of course in the shift modus.
Great video!
Excellent! Looking forward to trying.
Great video, thanks for sharing Mark. I haven’t tried panos before but will now give it a go 😊
Mark, great explanation of the different options LR gives for panos. I have used it but have not given the options a try. For years my goto program (that I still use) is Kolor Autopano Giga which is now out of production.
Great video Mark, I was just thinking of trying my hand at panos now I know how to go about it thanks!
Thanks, Mark. It's a very good instructional video.
fantastic video as always, Mark! I like to take panoramas holding the camera vertically and add more photos so it will be a wilder image
Great video, thank you. Very interesting the idea of using a telephoto lens for panoramas.
Great video, I do pano’s quite a lot & found this really useful, thanks.
Thanks mate, really enjoyed it! Time is not a matter as long as we learn something!👍🏼
Wonderful mark it was really fantastic to learn from a master
Thank you for the information!
Great video, very useful & informative, thank you. 👍
I took a business trip to BC soon after getting my first DSLR. I brought my camera along and thought I'd take a few photos, time permitting. It was winter and I convinced the hotel staff to open the patio for me late in the day, where there was a gorgeous vista. I had experimented with a few panos in Lightroom, but this time around I took 15 (5x3) handheld photos, 24 megapixels each. Lightroom stitched them together wonderfully, and that was about 8 years ago. The final image after overlap and cropping was about 150 megapixels. The picture's nothing to write home about, but the process was very successful and impressive.
Excellent video indeed. ❤❤
This was done very well. Thank you!
I never realised how easy it is. I do them handheld and stitch together in lightroom. It takes practice but fun and rewarding when it comes out right.
Good post, Mark
Very interesting video.. thank you for the good information about pano.
I've been shooting panoramas and stitching in LrC since Adobe added the functionality. I'll often shoot big wide panos, covering 180° or more. I'll also make them multi row. My preference is shooting with a 100mm focal length, on an APS-C sized sensor. I tend to try to be between 70% and 50% overlap, both in the horizontal and vertical directions. I do now shoot almost all of my panos hand held. Finally I'll refocus with the centre AF point for each shot. Of course I take advantage of the HDR option, so usually shoot with three exposures for each "move". I can end up with a lot of frames this way though. I have some where LrC has combined around 180 frames. I have done a few sets where I've had to drop the number of frames that are being combined, by losing some of the edge, thanks to running into the pixel limit for image sizes.
I guess that shooting handheld but with a 50%-70% overlaping would help to solve the problem of having to bring a big wide-angle lens or tripod if you want to do pano when visiting cities (for narrow streets or inside churches for example). Do you think it would work?
A great tutorial Mark👍🏻
Thanks for the great tutorial.
Great effort and excellent video. You made it so simple to produce such a high quality image.
Liked the video and subscribed.
Thank you, Mark,and thank you, God, for the refresher coarse .going to Kauai in April only taking prime lenses. Will most definitely be taking panoramic ❤ Rees
Great info! I guess I'm in the rare category, as majority of my Panos are shot with telephoto (& mid range) lenses. I do it for SUPER High-Res images, either of landscapes or (typically) Astro images.
I also go a step further & do "stacked" Panos for extra details/less noise in the Astro panos.
Only thing I'd add which is helpful (yet can be overlooked) for beginners & advanced shooters: Shoot your pano scene WIDER than you think.
Can't tell you how many times I've made this "mistake", only to stitch the pano together, knowing you'll have to crop 98% of the time & realizing bc I didn't leave room around my frame edges, I had to crop INTO my intended composition 🙃
So overlap 40-50% & make sure you start/end the pano with LOTS of room to crop/adjust in post once you stitch it all together. Save yourself the headache/disappointment haha!
What is your process in stacking? Do you take 2 or 3 rows adjusting the focus in each row? I have been experimenting trying to perfect that process.
Thank you for the video. This really helped.
Great introduction video to PANO Mark. If you do another video in the future perhaps add a discussion on using a nodal rail for parallax error. Also a ball head with indexed stops helps keeps your picture spacing consistent.
Very helpful!
Very helpful. Thank you. I have had a few messed up skies in a panorama by forgetting to take off the polarising filter!
Thanks!
Awesome info, I have been holding off on panos just because of not knowing what to do with them really. I will be trying it out soon.
Well done Mark, The video is a Beauty Mate... 🙃AU
Very nice video! Would have been great to see the final version of those 2 pano's with your editing ☺️
Superinteresting video!
This was so cool to watch! Thank you! I regret not knowing this when I lived in Washington. I need to go back! 😂 Excellent video sir!
Great tips . Thanks 👍👌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
When doing panos I like to shoot in portrait mode to help keep the aspect ratio a little less stretched out.
Hey Mark, great info going through all the tools with panorama. Taking it a step further, is there any way you know of to do a focus stacked panorama in LR only? Also, wouldn't it be great if like user presets, you could create macros similar to excel to do all of these functions. That is something I would pay for far and above someone's color and editing presets lol
Appreciated the comment about the importance of the histogram in your pano setup. Kind of a “duh!” moment for me… thanks for teaching me that!
I’m looking forward to experimenting with my tilt shift lens to create some panoramas.
Good session learnt alot👍
Thanks for your tips. I never saw the slider among the options, it's really useful. Maybe it's not in my LR version. Greetings from Spain.