Panoramic View

nirvanray wrote on 1/25/2015, 3:07 AM

Hello friends, I am experimenting with Panoramic View Photography with a simple DSLR.
As per the online and youtube ideas I did manage to shoot a multiple images in Portrait. But the problem is multifold during editing.
First of all there are some 'lines' when I edit (stitch) these pictutres. Also I cannot accommodate many pictures and they are not align in one row.
I have explained through the following pictures.....can someone please help.

Regards.

Anirban

Pic 1: Portrait

Pic 2: Editing and not aligning

Pic 3: Enlarged one

Pic 4: FInal (Have to chop the top and bottom)

Comments

johnebaker wrote on 1/25/2015, 5:42 AM

Hi Anirban

Looking at the images layout on the timeline in picture 1, I suspect you are trying to resize / align the images manually to stitch them together.

If so then the lines are a result of slight mismatch in the edges of the images.

You manually create panoramas in an image editor

Using MEP in this way is much more difficult - the Panorama function in MEP works very well however it is restricted to 6 images, to use more you would have to upgrade the version of Magix PanoramaStudio.

To use this function the images should be in sequence on one track of the timeline. I have found that this function is very good - see video below of a pano created from 6 images in MEP 2015.

To get a good panorama you need to have the following:

The camera must be level - use a tripod
At least 30% overlap on the sequence of images*
The exposure should be set to Manual - to avoid differences in exposure levels between images

* If you do not have a panorama indexing head on your tripod but your camera has a 'Rule of Thirds' grid option on the display, use the grid to align objects to achieve ~ 30% overlap

I have Hugin for creating panoramas - this and has a lot of functionality however the downside is the learning curvecan be very steep.

These are scaled down versions of the 6 images used

As you can see there is a high degree of overlap between images.

HTH

John

nirvanray wrote on 1/25/2015, 7:27 AM

Thanks John can I follow the same for a still picture?

johnebaker wrote on 1/25/2015, 8:51 AM

Hi Anirban

When you use the Create panorama effect it asks you if you want to add camera motion to the final image as shown below

In the example I did I selected the pan left to right option.

Note without selecting a camera movement the resulting image is displayed full width - so it is very severely letterboxed.

John

browj2 wrote on 1/25/2015, 11:45 AM

Hi Anirban,

John EB has given you the best advice here. Taking the photos in a horizontal line is the hard part; doing it inside a room is even harder than outside I would imagine. Since yours go off the horizontal, if you get them properly stitched together then you can use Effects, Size/position and keyframes to pan horizontally with a slight upwards movement across the final image. You might want to use a photo program like Paintshop Pro to stitch the photos.

If you want to see some other discussions about this topic, go through this thread and also do a search for panorama in the MEP forum.