Jan Brittenson
Senior Subscriber Member
My poor Mac was struggling a little bit with this rotational pano! It's a composite (PS CS4 Photomerge) from 18 vertical exposures with the ZD back and 210 lens. Cropped and trimmed it's 52000x5300! That's a big file. A 1.6GB 16-bit TIFF. To make the pano PS CS4 had to have all 18 files open, plus a target document with 18 layers. It was working pretty hard.
Unfortunately, I don't like the way the joints show in the sky; it seems to be because the top part of each frame (left side in the verticals used here) is just a tad darker than the right, like 1-1.5%. So sometime my Mac Pro will have to revisit this... I'll probably just manually rebalance each shot before stitching to make sure they line up tonally. All files were converted using identical settings, and the camera was in M mode. Odd, no?
Here's a 500 px crop:
Unfortunately, I don't like the way the joints show in the sky; it seems to be because the top part of each frame (left side in the verticals used here) is just a tad darker than the right, like 1-1.5%. So sometime my Mac Pro will have to revisit this... I'll probably just manually rebalance each shot before stitching to make sure they line up tonally. All files were converted using identical settings, and the camera was in M mode. Odd, no?
Here's a 500 px crop: