King's College, Cambridge, 10 frame panorama

[Ian]

10 vertical frames stitched in Photoshop CS6 and adjusted in Lightroom 5. Olympus Pen E-P3, Panasonic Lumix X 12-35mm f/2.8.

By the 7th frame the rain was starting to make its presence felt!

Ian

[iainmacd]

Re: King's College, Cambridge, 10 frame panorama

Very impressive Ian, the bright sky has been handled very well while the buildings are still exposed correctly.
Is this down to lightroom or the camera? :-)

[John Houghton]

Re: King's College, Cambridge, 10 frame panorama

Ian, A nice panorama, but I don't like the way it dips down slightly in the middle. It could probably be improved by using a stitcher that offers better levelling control. I have a panorama shot in similar sunless conditions stitched with PTGui that I think looks nicer in this respect (it's nothing special otherwise):



I'd be happy to try a PTGui stitch of your images if you would be interested.

John

[Ian]

Re: King's College, Cambridge, 10 frame panorama

Hi John - nice to see you!

Must admit I am no expert at stitching and there are lots of minor issues with my attempt that could be fixed - for a start I didn't use a tripod and I was in a hurry because it had started to rain

If you'd like to have a go, I'd be delighted - would you like me to package together a zip file of the original RAW files (taken with an Olympus Pen E-P3, so most up to date software will read them).

Ian

[Ian]

Re: King's College, Cambridge, 10 frame panorama

Very impressive Ian, the bright sky has been handled very well while the buildings are still exposed correctly.
Is this down to lightroom or the camera? :-)

I worked hard on the sky!

I masked the sky (mostly by hand using Quick Mask in PS as the auto masking didn't work very well) and processed separately from the rest of the shot - and I filled in a big hole in the sky where the sun was trying to get through but it just looked like a blown region in the sky.

Ian

[John Houghton]

Re: King's College, Cambridge, 10 frame panorama

Ian, I didn't use a tripod either - using one is not permitted. Please zip the files as you suggest and upload them somewhere where I can get them.

John

[Ian]

Re: King's College, Cambridge, 10 frame panorama

Thanks John - I will send you a PM with a link to the download file.

Ian

[Ian]

Re: King's College, Cambridge, 10 frame panorama

Here is John Houghton's re-stitch of my original pano that he kindly offered to do. All I have done is resized it:



And for reference, my version again:



No sagging in John's version and he has managed to preserve more of the edges. I like the colour better in mine though (but I don't think that was a high priority!)

Thanks very much John!

Ian