2 Pro Fall Colors Sunset @ Arizona Snowbowl

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The setting sun casts a warm glow over the tress showing off their fall colors in their last hurrah before the winter snows start falling. This aerial panoramic view shows the vastness of the colors at the Snowbowl Ski resort. Taken on 10-12-20 with my M2P. Click on the photo to see it full-screen, and just TRY to count the Aspen trees!
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Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

 

[Jack43]

absolutey amazing photo, what a fantastic landscape
cheers Paul

 

[PC1134]

Beautiful pano Paul! I have a question. I take a lot of panos with my M2P and constantly have problems with bulging straight lines, eg a beach like in my example here, when taking a 21 shot extra wide pano. I shoot RAW, then process the pano in Lightroom with circular option. If you have any advice, I'd be really grateful. Cheers, Sean

 

[Broken Star Photo]

Sean,
Are you shooting the images in your drone and then loading all three rows of images into LR to stitch the piano? I lf so, I don't do that with my drone panos. I used the 180 option under panos setting. It shoots all of the frames and then stitches them together in camera. When you download your images you will see all of preliminary shots and then a final stitched image.

If you are try to stitch all of the individual shots in LR, when the software gives you the preview try switching between the projection options of Spherical, Cylindrical and Perspective. I normally used Perspective, but occasionally need to change the projection option to get the stitch to come out right.

Hopefully this will help,

Jim

 

[Jack43]

Beautiful pano Paul! I have a question. I take a lot of panos with my M2P and constantly have problems with bulging straight lines, eg a beach like in my example here, when taking a 21 shot extra wide pano. I shoot RAW, then process the pano in Lightroom with circular option. If you have any advice, I'd be really grateful. Cheers, Sean

Hi Sean,
these panoramas are not shot by myself
cheers Paul

 

[PC1134]

Sean,
Are you shooting the images in your drone and then loading all three rows of images into LR to stitch the piano? I lf so, I don't do that with my drone panos. I used the 180 option under panos setting. It shoots all of the frames and then stitches them together in camera. When you download your images you will see all of preliminary shots and then a final stitched image.

If you are try to stitch all of the individual shots in LR, when the software gives you the preview try switching between the projection options of Spherical, Cylindrical and Perspective. I normally used Perspective, but occasionally need to change the projection option to get the stitch to come out right.

Hopefully this will help,

Jim

Hi Jim, thanks very much for your reply mate. In answer to your questions:
1. I have it set to RAW + .jpg so yes, am loading all 3 rows of images into Lr to stitch the pano, plus allowing the drone's software to create around a 10MB .jpg pano. Both versions exhibit the same level of distortion, although not so noticeable if there are no straight lines (eg Sideling pano - attached), and fine in the 3x3 pano mode with Perspective clicked on (as in PANO0001-Pano.jpg attached), but in the Super Wide pano mode, Perspective won't stitch, you have to do it with Circular or Spherical in Lr.

 

[Broken Star Photo]

These two shots look great!

 

[PC1134]

These two shots look great!

Thanks Jim! Yes, was very happy with these. However, I think I've finally turned a corner with my extra wide panos, using PTgui instead of Lightroom. In rectilinear mode it is much better.