Panorama Photography Skills

Photos used for stitching panoramic photo have certain requirements, such as exposure, close tonal, lined, slightly overlapping each other and so on, The following are some tips for your reference.

1, the choice of the focal length

Some people think that when shooting panoramas to make perspective as large as possible, so you should use the shortest focal length (wide-angle lens or the wide end of the zoom lens), so the number of photos which need to be stitched will be less. In fact this is a misunderstanding, when shooting easily, it will be trouble with stitching. Because of the wide Angle lens perspective effect is strong, and especially the edge of the screen, prone to distortion, it is difficult to the seamless splicing. But wide Angle has the advantages which can form a stronger sense of perspective. Commonly used lenses are EF35mm, EF50mm, EF85mm and so on.

2, exposure parameters

Now many digital cameras have a panoramic view of the special model, in this mode, the camera is automatically set exposure parameters, according to the requirement of the panoramic photographs taken with no panoramic view of the camera should pay attention to the following: a, photometry is used when the average metering, exposure with a manual exposure or AE lock exposure parameters, the same set of panoramic photo shooting process can't change the aperture, speed, ISO, resolution and other Settings; b, using a fixed white balance, using automatic white balance may lead to different don't match the colour of the picture.

3, shooting method

When shooting in accordance with a certain order (from left to right or from top to lower), it is best to use a tripod steady rotation, pay attention to the vertical axis of rotation during filming, around or point-by-point translation should pay attention to the height of camera when filming, Angle, generally do not use flash. When shooting to have some overlap between adjacent two pictures, Canon, casio, some brands such as digital camera LCD shows have assisted in panoramic mode prompt. To avoid dramatic change in light conditions (such as clouds cover the sun), in order to avoid the exposure difference between images is too big. To pay attention to avoid the cohesion appears when shooting moving object (e.g., vehicles and pedestrians). Although there are clearly marked the location of choice as the connection point to some software of automatic identification, joining together, we suggest to choose no significant parts of the mark, to mix as integration, such as water and mountains, so pieced together is not easy to see the seam.

4. Do seamless splicing.

A. prepare a tripod. B. the camera's white balance adjustment for cloudy, if you are set to automatically, so the white balance maybe could change on each photo, so the effect of the photo is different. C. it is best to vertical shooting, because such than shooting level, more to avoid the edge distortion. D. each image overlap to twenty percent, to ensure that each image on a quarter in the second photo, this is easy for overlapping photos by photoshop. E. in the first photo shooting and the last picture of the time take a picture of a marked, so that you know where to begin and end. F. buy a shutter release, which can be used to self-shooting. And take pictures without shaking. G. as far as possible a bit faster, because if there is clouds move, or the change of the light, you will be a little bit fast capture image to ensure that the content of the picture is not deviation.