First attempt at a Crowd Pano

[Terrywoodenpic]

My first attempt at a crowd Pano I took yesterday during the "Whit walks"
panned right to left, hand held high burst, then chose a suitable pair to join in PTAssembler, masks adjusted in photoshop. seems all a bit high risk.


13 Uppermill churches walked , ours is Friezland (in the picture)

Any advise welcome.

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[gardenstate]

very nice picture!

[rpolitsr]

It is a fine work in the seam. I didn’t find it.!
We did some building panoramas for 3D anaglyphs last month; we avoided shooting people, while you shot with the crowd in front of you!
Nicely done with a lot of patience, I guess.

[Nick C.]

Nicely done! I'd imagine you'd have to be pretty quick in grabbing the two(?) pictures for a pano when people are walking around like that.

[Terrywoodenpic]

Nicely done! I'd imagine you'd have to be pretty quick in grabbing the two(?) pictures for a pano when people are walking around like that.

I took 6 shots in high burst moving the camera a little between each shot, you have to sync your movement to the shutter sound.
Then I sorted through the picks and chose the one that worked best with the last one. I am sure you could do a wider pan this way, but the risk grows with the size.

[gkuenning]

I think it probably helped that a lot of the "audience" was semi-stationary. Nevertheless, you get an A for cleverness (I wouldn't have thought of using a burst for this purpose) and an A for execution.

[BillsBayou]

Very nice stitching. The barrel distortion on the building (right side of picture) is an interesting side-effect of the stitching. How many pictures did you stitch together for the final image? What was the focal length on the shots?

[Terrywoodenpic]

Very nice stitching. The barrel distortion on the building (right side of picture) is an interesting side-effect of the stitching. How many pictures did you stitch together for the final image? What was the focal length on the shots?


I got away with using only two, eventhough nearly every one had turned or moved. using a photoshop mask output in ptstitcher lets you adjust the mask exactly around people and feather the join. the G6 was set at it's widest.

It may have been easier to have used more of the shots, as there would have been geater choice of seam with the greater overlap.
The seam goes up between the woman with the child on her hip and the lady with the pink skirt, then takes a devious route to the top.
I know where the seam is but can no longer find it.

[BillsBayou]

Oh, it's seamless enough. The stitching is very nice.

[Action_Man]

Interesting method Terry - and i may try it next time i`m out :) ...

[Reyno]

Good technique. As Action_Man said, I'll definitely try this sometime.

[gkuenning]

I tried Terry's trick twice recently. The first time wasn't a crowd, it was a mountain scene, but if anything it worked even better. I think I'm going to stop doing panos the "old" way of carefully aligning each shot, and instead just fire away in motor-drive mode as I swing the camera. A few extra shots don't hurt at all, and it's really quick and easy. An added benefit in hand-held mode is that the speed makes it easier to keep a consistent camera position through the whole pano.

My second attempt was at our local Independence Day parade, and was much less successful. My big mistake was that I panned WITH the motion of the crowd rather than AGAINST it. Shooting at high speed didn't help, because I wound up tossing out most of the frames. I ended up with three or four, and lots of people were in more than one shot. One guy on a bicycle wound up appearing three times. I don't have any half-people, but it's definitely a weird picture.

[Terrywoodenpic]

My second attempt was at our local Independence Day parade, and was much less successful. My big mistake was that I panned WITH the motion of the crowd rather than AGAINST it. Shooting at high speed didn't help, because I wound up tossing out most of the frames. I ended up with three or four, and lots of people were in more than one shot. One guy on a bicycle wound up appearing three times. I don't have any half-people, but it's definitely a weird picture.

Nice to hear some one else has tried it.
It certainly helps to pan against the traffic, though fast moving stuff will always be a problem.

[Doom1701e]

Turned out great!