{"id":4837,"date":"2016-03-15T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2016-03-15T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:30:07","slug":"bw-film-testing-3-trying-a-panorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4837","title":{"rendered":"B&#038;W film testing &#8211; 3) trying a panorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This shows a test of using B&amp;W film negatives to produce a panorama:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4839\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_07t1x5-600x129.jpg\" alt=\"garden film panorama\" width=\"600\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_07t1x5-600x129.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_07t1x5-150x32.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_07t1x5-300x64.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_07t1x5-768x165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_07t1x5-1200x257.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_07t1x5.jpg 1930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This turned out better than I expected. I couldn&#8217;t detect any stitching problems. I did though override the lens focal length settings to match the actual taking lens (a 50mm). I was quite satisfied with this. I had an orange 4x filter on the lens to give a better tonal value to the sky.<\/p>\n<p>However this one of a field I couldn&#8217;t get right:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_21t1x5-600x104.jpg\" alt=\"field film pano\" width=\"600\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_21t1x5-600x104.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_21t1x5-150x26.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_21t1x5-300x52.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_21t1x5-768x133.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_21t1x5-1200x208.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/M101_21t1x5.jpg 1930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although taken with the same settings, the exposures somehow were different which stopped me getting them to blend well whatever I did. The two images on the left (away from the sun) did blend well.\u00a0 One thing I did like was the tonal value of the blue sky with the white clouds &#8211; for these exposures I used a 4x orange filter on the lens, this was my favourite from my B&amp;W film processing days.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I feel I could improve on these with more practice but, to get the images I want, I find digital gives me far better results. This is something I have wanted to do for some time but that particular itch is now scratched. It was worth the time and effort though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shows a test of using B&amp;W film negatives to produce a panorama: This turned out better than I expected. I couldn&#8217;t detect any stitching problems. I did though override the lens focal length settings to match the actual taking lens (a 50mm). I was quite satisfied with this. I had an orange 4x filter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4837\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;B&#038;W film testing &#8211; 3) trying a panorama&#8221;<\/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":[71,3,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-panoramas","category-photography","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","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=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4841,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}