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<\/a><\/p>\nThis first panorama is of a field next door taken from the roof of a garden shed (see some of my previous posts for a daytime view). Although it looked OK at the time it is rather underexposed. It appears to have stitched OK though.<\/p>\n
This one is taken in the opposite direction and is of the garden:<\/p>\n
The light shining out of the door shows it is taken at night! As above, it is underexposed but stitched OK.<\/p>\n Finally a view in the garden:<\/p>\n For this next set of images, I tried processing the original raw images through the Canon raw processor (DPP4).<\/p>\n This has brightened it up a lot; too much – it looks like daytime and is quite boring!. The same goes for the next two:<\/p>\n Although they are almost daylight-bright, the light shining through the door shows it was night-time. What isn’t apparent in these versions is that I over-did the noise reduction – the images are ‘smeared’: On the left is the original jpg file, on the left is the over-processed raw as a jpg. Note that I also tried this outputting the images as 16-bit tiff files – this didn’t make any noticeable difference.<\/p>\n My next test was using Lightroom to process the raw files; both into jpg and 16-bit tiff – the tiff, again, didn’t make any noticeable difference. Here, I did 2 sets of tests, the first set was processing without lens corrections, the second with.<\/p>\n This didn’t seem to make any difference with one exception. Here the stitching for one pano gave this image:<\/p>\n This is a screen dump from the stitching software. To eliminate this I had to re-analyse each stitch and add some more control points – it then cleaned up OK.<\/p>\n So here are the Lightroom processed files stitched:<\/p>\n This is darker but looks like an underexposed daytime shot. There are 6 stitching errors in the pano. On thing I couldn’t correct for is the way the view slopes up on the right. I need to check that the camera is sitting square before I do this again. I am, though, pleased with the detail – here is a close up of this and the third pano This is a 100% section. Here are the other 2 panos:<\/p>\n All of these had stitching errors, but you need to look closer. I haven’t attempted to re-stitch these – this is running on the default settings:<\/p>\n So, what have I learnt from this exercise:<\/p>\n 1) I need to check the alignment of the camera<\/p>\n 2) Don’t overdo the noise reduction<\/p>\n 3) Don’t over-brighten otherwise it looks like a poor daylight photo, but increase the exposure if possible<\/p>\n 4) Have something in the photo that ‘proves’ it is a night-time photo, such as light spilling from a door or window<\/p>\n 5) Pay careful attention to the stitching process<\/p>\n 6) Refocus the lens to suit the scene – the second and third of the panoramas were out of focus – sharp for the distance but out-of-focus foreground (but it doesn’t notice in these small versions shown here)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the recent night of the full moon, I tried 3 panoramic views using a 50mm lens. I have since spent a lot of time trying to process these images to get the best out of them using different techniques – it’s not so easy as you may think. First I will show the ‘out … Continue reading “Panoramic photography by moonlight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,71,3,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-night","category-panoramas","category-photography","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n