Wedding Panoramas

Del, I do have a full Manfrotto Pano tripod and panoramic head (http://www.manfrotto.c​om …ivid=80|81&lsf=​81&child=3) but I hate lugging that or any tripod around particularly in situations like weddings so this is why I do these hand held. Tripods also do not help with people movement.

I have used this but you can still get some banding especially close to bright lights but this can generally be fixed in PS. Here's a pano shot manual exposure but I still had to exposure bracket the 3 shots closest to the sun to get it reasonably balanced.

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thats awesome that you can hand hold your pano's i have so much trouble with hand holding them that in the end my photo ends up too skinny from trying to stitch it together properly hahaha

Shoot vertical, then you have more height to pick from - although you need more images, since you have to overlap them 25-30% to be able to stitch well.

Actually speaking of pano's my work mate who im photographing their wedding october for wants some pano's of her and hubby on beach....cottosloe beach in WA is gorgeous with the indiana tea house in the background so im quite excited to get shots there for them and stitch a pano together!!!

Here's a neat tip you can think about - watch out for that perfect light/weather day and then go down go down to the Indiana tea rooms at about the same time of day that you plan to shoot and plan the pano. Think about where you want to position the couple and even take a couple of panos. Then on the big day if the weather/light is not so good or there are people in the way you can susbstitute frames of one pano into the other. Of course you can also shoot stuff after the event.

Bob that is one of the most simple yet genius comments hahahaha GREAT idea! Im gonna do it

I am planning to move to perth from the country in a few months tiem so i will finally be able to go places, check them out a few months before these weddings instead of the day before so i can plan EVERYTHING down to a tee...

really great advice thanks so much Why didnt i think of that??