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LOL Ken. If Guy is the CEO of enablers in Dante's Inferno you must be the entire Board of Directors. It was taken with my old 645D; a two shot stack at f/8 with the 600mm. I don't have the Z yet, but the high ISO performance is a convincing improvement.Nice. Is that image taken with your new Pentax 645Z, Tom? We're still waiting for your review...
Really nice :thumbup:
Thank you. It is a 6 shots pano taken with a RD90MM. A 1.3G file, 78 X 36 inches at 300dpi, you can actually see people in windows, and count bricks on the walls. What a magnificent lens. Now if I only had a wall big enough to hang it onReally nice :thumbup:
645Z plus 25mm f4 DA - pano using 5 frames (each bracketed):
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Hi Ed,
How do you assemble the bracketed images? My latest attempts were no so successful, so I am a bit curious.
Great work, as usual!
Best regards
Erik
Thanks Erik - glad you like it
The pano was created using a method that was recommended to me here on this group a couple of years ago. It involves using PTGui to create a template for the stitch, then applying it.
Take all of the files shot at one exposure - usually the lightest one (or the mid-exposure one) - whichever one contains the most detail for the stitching to work with. Do the stitch as desired (PTGui has many options). Output the file. Then, within PTGui, save that stitch as a template. When you load the files at another exposure, you can apply the template - which guarantees that the exact same geometry, etc. have been applied - so they will exactly line up.
Having done that for each exposure, I then layer those files in PS - and use layer masks to brush them in as desired.
This method works much better than stitching each set of files in PS - because the different exposures get stitched differently due to differing details being visible at each exposure. It is also better than exposure blending each file before stitching - as you will find it very hard to do that consistently across the scene when you can only see a slice of it at a time.
It's a method that needs patience and a systematic workflow, but produces very controllable and precise results.
Incredible shot Ed! Where was this shot from?On Thursday night, I was lucky enough to get access to a location not normally available to the public...
645Z plus 6x7 75mm f2.8AL lens
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