Mountain Top Panoramas -- Mt. Kinsman, NH

My reward from a 10 mile hike yesterday:

1. 3 image panorama. f/9 @ 17 mm, 1/50, ISO 200

GREAT shot!

pretty good - just had a quick look at the high res of the 360 - can see quite a few dust spots on it plus some unevenness in the blending of the sky - that's likely from use of the CPL. Also, the foregound looks a little oof and there's some haloing around distant hills.

Still good though.. I've done quite a few of these myself here in the UK (had a series of them published over several months in a major mag actually). Are you using a pano head?

If you use that body/lens combo at around 19mm you should be able to get a full 360 with about 8 individual frames (portrait of course).

clippo wrote in post #16038434
pretty good - just had a quick look at the high res of the 360 - can see quite a few dust spots on it plus some unevenness in the blending of the sky - that's likely from use of the CPL. Also, the foregound looks a little oof and there's some haloing around distant hills.

Still good though.. I've done quite a few of these myself here in the UK (had a series of them published over several months in a major mag actually). Are you using a pano head?

If you use that body/lens combo at around 19mm you should be able to get a full 360 with about 8 individual frames (portrait of course).

Thanks for the tips! I did notice the foreground was a bit OFF as well. I use a ball head, not a panoramic head. It's easy enough to take panos though, just hard to get the level right.

I tend to use a lot more photos because I like more overlap. Gives me more freedom to subtract things and blend things into the image. There were a few people at the summit moving around and walking, but i was able to easily get rid of them because of the amount of overlap I had.

using a ball head probably accounts for the blurry foreground. Basically you are getting parallax errors from this and they show up most in the foreground.

Using a panohead gets around this as it rotates the lens around its nodal point when set-up correctly. You don't get parallax errors even up close. I use a panosaurus which is very inexpensive and light weight... (about on the limit for supporting a 5D plus lens actually!)

I labeled the mountains if anyone is curious and from the area.