Digital Cameras Can Also Take Panoramic Photos

1. The choice of focal length

Some people think that when you take panoramic photos, the view should be as large as possible. So they adopt the shortest focal length (wide-angle lens or wide-angle zoom lens). They take it for granted that fewer pieces of mosaic pictures is then needed. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, It is easy to shoot in this way but it’s painstaking when stitching. Strong perspective effect appears due to wide-angle lens, especially the edge of the screen, easily distorted, hard to stitch seamlessly. Therefore, deformation should be used when shooting in small focus or telephoto shooting, and the focal length should not be changed during the shooting procedure.

2. Exposure Parameters

Multiple digital cameras now have a special panorama mode, in this mode, the camera will automatically take panoramic pictures of the requirements by setting the exposure parameters, for cameras with no panorama features to note the following: a, testing light by the use of average light test, exposure by AE lock locking exposure parameters or manual exposure. The same set of panoramic photos of the shooting can not change the aperture, speed, ISO, resolution and other settings; b, using a fixed white balance, auto white balance may result in inconsistent color tone of different photos.

3. Shooting method

When shooting under a certain order (from left to right or from top to bottom, etc.), it is better to use the steady rotation of the tripod. Rotation axis should be vertical during rotation process. When shooting around or shift-by-point shooting attention is needed to be paid on the camera height and angle of the same, generally flash isn’t needed. The flash light causes inharmonious light tones-too light nearby and too dark far away. Between two neighboring photos the certain overlap is needed. Canon, Casio and other brands of some digital cameras, in panoramic mode, an LCD display provides auxiliary tips. Dramatic changes of light conditions (such as the line of clouds,)is not proper to shot, to avoid the large phase difference of exposure between different pictures. The moving objects should be avoided in the connection zone (such as vehicles and pedestrians.) Although to choose a location with an obvious sign as the convergence point is conducive to automated software’s identification, splicing, we recommend choosing the part with no obvious sign, not easy to mix with the site as connection, such as water and mountains, which is not easy to see the seams when stitching.

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