I figured the gaps were there for a reason and I agree - they add interest
to the image. I can't imagine me trying to stitch 15 exposures together.
The image would be a crazy quilt, indeed {:->
Marilyn
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From: "ADavidhazy" <andpph@xxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: PhotoForum's SINGLE TREE exhibit installed!
Hi Marilyn,
I was essentially forced to do it because I had a short lens and an 800 mm
in my car when I drove past that scene. With the short lens the tree was
too small and with the 800 the tree did not fit in the frame. I remembered
some discussion there was on the list about stitching and this got me
thinking.
I was maybe 1/2 - 3/4 mile from the tree and as I "panned" the tree there
did not seem to be much of a change in the features of the tree so I
thought it would be interesting to see how the process of piecemeal
capture and later assembly would work. I found I had to "pan" over three
columns and five rows to cover the scene with the 800 mm lens.
I did all exposures from a tripod and at the same aperture and shutter
speed ... once I realized that autoexposure would not work!
Then there were a couple of slivers missing as you can see. I thought they
actually worked to confirm the process so was not too bothered by them. I
do have a second sequence where there are no gaps but I worked with this
one first. Doing the second set did not appeal to me!
When I mentioned that I had trouble with matching the sky tones someone
mentioned a function in PS that corrects for this but am not sure it would
have worked here. I am a novice with PS so did all the corrections "by
hand".
I think that one reason the fragments did not match exactly is that the
in-camera software did not treat all the images the same as it compressed
from RAW to high quality jpeg. But I don't know about this.
Andy
Marilyn Dalrymple wrote:
Hi Andy, Can you tell us, please, about the why and how you compiled 15
exposures? Marilyn
