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A second Vertorama from the lake ( De put ) where I went last saturday.
I told I was going to write you a little vertorama tutorial when I had more of these under my belt, but now I think that the method will proof itself much faster if you all give it a try.
The little vertorama tutorial is down below.
The shot
2 x Standard 3 exposures HDR [-2,0,+2EV] in RAW/ISO100 at f/8 using the Sigma 10-20mm lens, on a tripod.
Photomatix
Tonemapped using the detail enhancer.
Vertorama stitching : the lazy bastard way.
As input you need two shots taken horizontally, one above the other with about 30% overlap, I’ve used 2 horizontal HDR shots taken at 11mm here but that ain’t important, just rest assured that there ain’t no problem with the widest shots.
So here is the photoshop part :
1) Load both shots into photoshop.
2) If there is too much difference in the colour or brightness of the shot you can alter
one of them to match the most pleasing of the two using the normal tools you
should know by now. This sure doesn’t need to be an exact match.
3) Copy paste one of them into the other.
4) Rotate the canvas 90°
5) Select both layers
6) Select ‘Edit>Auto-Align layers…’ and be sure to select ‘Cylindrical stitching’
7) Select ‘Edit>Auto-Blend layers’
8) Rotate the canvas 90° in the opposite direction of the previous rotate.
9) Flatten the image.
Now all you have to do is a crop and do all other photoshop work you wish.
Hope it will work out for you too: quick and easy !
In fact this is so dead easy that you can poor this into a photoshop action (step 3 until 9 ) :
I sure did!
You might be wondering what that 90° rotating comes from, but it’s plain stupid: the photoshop ‘Cylindrical Stitching’ algorithm was written to stitch shots taken horizontally, as a cylinder around the photographer, since we’re producing Vertorama’s here we just fool the algorithm by rotating our images 90°.
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All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
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Posted by Erroba on 2008-12-17 17:44:05
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