Tips on shooting for stitching later?

I'm going to take some pictures in a large performance space tomorrow and would usually just use my 16mm end of the 16-35 to do as best as I can. I then thought, after reading a post earlier, that it would be nice to try and do some multiple shots and stitch them to create something more impressive.

OK, I assume that I should shoot in manual, keeping the exposure the same, keep the camera on a tripod with the spirit level on top to ensure as near perfect verticals, put the camera on it's side etc etc. My question is, do I a). pan the camera around and take multiple shots that overlap over 30% or b). draw a line along the floor and move the camera along to the overlap positions?

Ah, sounds like I'm a newb at this and yes I am. I just did a hand held experiment with photomerge and it looks very promising but thought there's be some experienced shooters in here who can advise

Cheers!

Mike

You got it right. It is best to overlap each shot by about 20-30%. This makes the stitching much easier.

Take a read through this thread for some tips:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=412143

Thanks. I'm still wondering if I should just rotate and take pics or move the camera along a line and take the shots that way? I guess just rotate....

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Thanks. I'm still wondering if I should just rotate and take pics or move the camera along a line and take the shots that way? I guess just rotate....

Rotate YOURSELF around the axis of the camera (shuffle your feet around), not the camera around the axis of yourself.

Tripod mounted, just rotate the tripod head. A pano-head would be best but they can cost a bit and is not that important if you have a good stitching tool. You may still get parallax problems with very close objects.

Read through the thread I posted earlier, it should hopefully answer all your queries.

Many thanks. I'll report back on how well or badly I do