What to work on...

[neumanns]

I would like some feedback in regards to...Stitching, Use of curves & Mask's, overall Processing on this.

You'll have to excuse the exciting content...This is more a practice in application

[Picture North Carolina]

Well, as far as stitching, I think you've done a very good job. I think I see a notch in the grass about a third from the right, but can't tell, so again, good job. With the curve of the final pano, this thing has got to be at least a 180 degree stitch!

Post processing is ok, nice texture and good exposure in the grass. Guess you already know that sky-right is blown out. Looking at the dirt texture in the road it looks like it may have been a tad oversharpened, but I don't see the telltale halo effect in the grass that indicates it, so I don't know. All in all, a good job of stitching.

Manual or software-assisted blend?

[neumanns]

The notch in the grass had me take a second look, but it's a notch not a miss stitch.

It is just short of 180, probably 178. I should have went center of road to center of road.

I stitched in Hugin and then took it into photoshop to bring the sky back down but there is definatly some that was gone.

There are a lot of issues here and some of them are brought on by trying to compress to fit attacment. (I need to start hosting them somewhere) But Yes the road look's funky and I didn't even notice it till I posted it up.

But I guess my main concern is, Is the sky beleviable and other deffect's that I need to improve my skill's on. (like sharpening)

Doing this on one shot and doing it on a pano seem like two diffrent worlds, Shouldn't be I guess there is a whole new learning curve for pano's.

[Picture North Carolina]

The notch in the grass had me take a second look, but it's a notch not a miss stitch.

It is just short of 180, probably 178. I should have went center of road to center of road.

I stitched in Hugin and then took it into photoshop to bring the sky back down but there is definatly some that was gone.

There are a lot of issues here and some of them are brought on by trying to compress to fit attacment. (I need to start hosting them somewhere) But Yes the road look's funky and I didn't even notice it till I posted it up.

But I guess my main concern is, Is the sky beleviable and other deffect's that I need to improve my skill's on. (like sharpening)

Doing this on one shot and doing it on a pano seem like two diffrent worlds, Shouldn't be I guess there is a whole new learning curve for pano's.

For sharpening, are you familiar with the TLR sharpening toolkits? They are free, been discussed here for years, and have been compared to some of the best $$ sharpening tools available. Go here. (http://thelightsrightstudio.com/home.html), click on Digital Darkroom, it's in his plugin library. Lots of other nifty stuff there too.

I'll have to look into Hugin - never heard of it.

The sky is believable, however it looks a little on the cyan side. It's doesn't seem to share the same degree of curve, but that's hard to tell. Was it masked in?

[61ache]

For sharpening, one trick I use is "smart" unsharp mask. Here's a tutorial on how to do it in Gimp, which should be the same for photoshop. http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/SmartSharpening2/

[neumanns]

I guess the thing I'm struggling with on sharpening pano's is overall size and checking the entire image.

I suppose I'm gonna have to seaperatly sharpen diffrent part's of the image. I never really had this problem with a single image. I don't know if it's due to the softening that can take place when blending/bending/stitching them or just the scope of things encompassed in a pano.

For example in the above image. The rocks on the road look oversharpened as do the trees on the left. The ditch grass look's fine but the far treeline look's soft. It's somewhat appearant even at this small size but is more evident at it's native size.

Be nice to hear ideas on how some of you more expierenced "panographers" handle this.

[potn_momma2]

Not an expert in this sort of thing by any means, but just wanted to say that I think this is fabulous and really like the flow of the picture.. the only thing that bothers me a bit is the sky on the right seems to be way too bright, I'd personally bring that down just a touch so that you can see the definition of the clouds (could also be my monitor?)