How to shoot a PANORAMA - A Landscape Photography Adventure
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I go through my panorama technique attempting to photograph an incredible mountain landscape at sunset. This video is part of a long-term project to photograph and ultimately produce a book of the mountains of Fisherfield, also known as 'The Great Wilderness'.
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Brilliant l.
Great advice on the single shot back up, and on turning IS off ( done that too often) . What a stunning pano
Great vlog and lesson about Panorama Alex
First time here and have to say a very pleasing video to watch, listen and to enjoy this stunning view and pano work you are presenting. No Thomas Heaton who wants to sell something, no American bragging....excellent, Alex, keep it up!
Wonderful shot Alex & ands very useful tip about shooting a wide single frame as a backup. must remember that.
Glad you found it helpful Steve :)
Great video. Thank you. Any tips on hand holding panos? I don't carry tripod anymore as I'm 76 and my wife and I are headed to Spain, Portugal and Italy later this year for our 50th anniversary. Hope you can provide me some tips.
Stunning vista. The colours this time round really made a difference to the final image compared to the first time you shot it. Just goes to show that if you have a scene such as this you do need to return if you aren't 100% happy with the result. Great tip regarding moving to ISO 200 to speed up the shots which is important if you are shooting multiple images for the pano and the light is rapidly changing. Thank you for the time that you put into these videos and for sharing, it is very much appreciated.
Thanks John - yeah if you’re shooting in the mountains on a lightweight tripod you often have to take account of shutter speed a little bit! Glad you enjoyed it!
Really enjoyed binge watching all your work Alex on YT, great scenery and really interesting deep dives in Lightroom and Photoshop, high class learning material.
Thanks for your work.
Love your work!
Thank you!
Wow - simply gorgeous Alex (and terrific instruction as always
Thanks David - There are a few bit of instruction that I skipped over but there's only so much I can remember to do with so much going on!
Wow ! That pano was stunning , just wish I was fit enough to get to locations like that but at least I can watch your videos , thanks for taking us along
My pleasure Andrew! And maybe you’re an older chap, I don’t know, but don’t write off getting fitter - photography is a great excuse!
@@alexnail , ha ! I just said to the Mrs , he thinks I’m an oldie and then I remembered I’m 59 so I suppose I am !
@@andrewherbert9938 well, I was guessing older than you are because of the ‘fit enough’ comment. I’ve had clients in their 60’s and my parents (also 60s) are currently getting fit to go hiking in the NW highlands having not gone up a mountain in 18 years!
@@alexnail I admit I have no excuses for for my crap level of fitness , it’s not that bad as I normally manage 12 to sometimes 20,000
Steps per day at work and do get out for long walks with all my camera gear , it’s going uphill that kills me ! I need to get my arse into gear and do some training , off to Torridon in the Autumn so I’d better get cracking ( staying in Alligin in a house that you have also stayed in apparently) videos coming , always informative and inspiring
Love your works 🙌🙌🙌
Hi Alex, Have just come across your channel and this interesting video about capturing panoramas. Found myself nodding in agreement as you made your comments about composition, light and technique. I totally agree that your recent image is much better than the first - what I also noticed was much more clarity in the air producing a more contrasty and pleasing image. The polarising filter also makes a big difference which works when there is cloud in the sky but I avoid its use if the sky is clear. I too have made the same mistake by leaving image stabilising on when using a tripod - often the excitement of being in front of such an amazing scene inevitably causes a lapse in concentration particularly if time is short and there is a need to get the image in the bag whilst the perfect conditions prevail. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos and also the publication of your new book. All the best, Ian.
Hi Alex,
I enjoy your TH-cam videos and content. This panorama is stunning and goes someway to exposing us down under, to the beautiful lands you have. Really appreciate the huge effort required to bring these videos to us - so professional and very insightful.
I was interested to see you shoot the panorama with a polarizer attached (totally understand the use to help clear the atmosphere). I would have thought you might get a difference in polarizartion during the capture as the rotation of the camera occurred.
Cheers
Enjoyed that (as I did with your other video from this trip). Always pick up a couple of tips. Excited to hear you are working on a new book though. :-)
Working on is the right word, I’m in it for the long haul!
Madness, if you think you are thinking of everything, something unexpected happens, extremely helpful content, although sad too 😉
I assume you're referring to the IS issue! Still no fix as far as I am aware. To be honest its good practice to turn IS off when shooting on a tripod, but I sometimes forget and it's never been a problem (except on long exposures). I'll have to pay more attention next time!
Those Fisherfield vistas are truly something, they look fantastic on a 50 inch TV. Absolutely stunning as landscape photographers are prone to saying. I understand now why my hand held panoramas line up better then tripod based panoramas, I need to spend more time making sure everything's level. I've not attempted multi-row panos, is it better to adjust the tripod centre column or just tilt the camera?
Hugely enjoying your videos, I take something away from every one of them. Thanks for all the work you put into them.
In my opinion, unless you have a really good reason, multi-row panoramas are overkill! But tilt the camera.
Glad you’re finding them helpful Richard, they take me absolutely ages, so it makes a difference to know that people appreciate them!
R5 IS swirl? Only on a tripod or vertical hopefully? Y/N? Nice vid, great photo!
Vertical only. It’s fixed now by a firmware update
@@alexnail Thank you.
Fabulous photos ! .... IS is a perplexing issue ..... on my previous Panasonic SIR and Leica SL (which use the same system) IS could be left on permanently and there was never a problem. With Fuji (GF100s) it's an issue with some lenses some of the time (shutter speed dependent) if left on ... which is easy to do unless you are careful. I've had to set up specific 'Tripod' and 'Handheld' custom settings to avoid this sort of error. The 'Tripod' one includes a timed release so it's immediately obvious if I've chosen the wrong one.
Yeah different systems can be a bit fussy. In this case I think its a bit of a flaw with how the IS system is implemented specifically on the R5 if you leave it to 'always on'. Setting the IS so that it is only on when capturing a photo seems to resolve the problem, but of course if shooting handheld you dont get that lovely stable view. I'm sure Canon will fix it in a firmware update. But really....I should have just remembered to turn it off. 1/6 is starting to get long enough that you just *might* see a slight softening with it on anyway.
Amazing, inspiring landscape. It's easy to feel the remoteness. Thanks for this and the effort you put into your other editing info videos. I also personally prefer the new pano, with the smarter colour palette to the orginal one, with all the colours. If, however, it was someone else's image you were critiquing and they had a personal preference to a "colourful" image of a similar subject matter (maybe it's more to their style), would you still suggest simplifying the colour palette? How much should critique influence one's style?
I think you can only critique from a personal perspective and every critique should be taken with the understanding that it is largely subjective. However there are objective ideas that are likely to appeal to a wider range of people and I would suggest that harmonious colour palettes are generally likely to be more widely enjoyed than those that clash, so there is an objective element there too I think!
Glad you’re enjoying the videos Kirsten and thanks for the question :)
@@alexnail thanks so much for your detailed response. It definitely makes sense, and certainly something for me to think about :)
Great video....glad I found your channel👍 The images look great. What camera do you use for video?
Thanks, the Canon R5 for most of it and then the Sony ZV-1 when I’m showing the camera
@@alexnail - Great...thank you!!
Awesome images.
So do you think it's still best to turn off the IS on the lens or have cannon fixed it now?
I sometimes have blurring that I cannot explain.
I shoot heaps of panos with my R5 and some images that are blurry, mystify me, as I always use focus peaking and a timer.
It’s definitely best practice to turn off the IS yes, but Canon have fixed the problem in a firmware update about a year ago :)
@@alexnail taa for that.
my R5 is up todate but I will try to remember to turn the IS off when shooting off the tripod.
I just need to remember to turn it back on when hand holding.
What’s your prefer focal length for pano?
Alex do you need to check and adjust your light meter if it moves through the panning
Hi Peter, I use the histogram and make sure the camera is pointed at the brightest part of the scene whilst half pressing the shutter so that I am seeing the darkest frame (and its histogram).
I’ve been stung by the lens OIS on my 250mm GF lens on my Fuji 50R. I know your pain!
Yeah in the 1/10 times I would forget to turn it off in the past it only ever mattered if I was shooting a long exposure. In fact often when it’s windy I turn the IS on because it gives a sharper image. Hopefully Canon come up with a fix
@@alexnail yes it’s the longer exposures that I’ve been hit with the most. I have an unusable image from my recent trip because of that.
What camera did you shoot this video with?
The Canon R5. The short clips showing the R5 are shot with the Sony ZV-1
what focal lenght are you using during this shot?
@@chizter1336 I can’t remember to be honest. I think it will be between 24 and 30mm
@@alexnail thanks..it looks like it a telephoto. Maybe because of the Pano shot. Thanks
Thanks Alex for another great video! Regarding the ISO setting, I recently learned (th-cam.com/video/lT03APtzrdo/w-d-xo.html) that for many cameras, the noise-vs-ISO graph is not monotonic. For example, for the Canon R5, there is apparently less sensor noise at ISO 400 than there is at ISO 200 (or even ISO 126). Have you any experience with this? I'm not sure I have the technical skills to verify it. It seems too good to be true that I can jump from 100 to 400 with a smaller penalty than going to 200. Thanks again for all that you share 🙏🏼.
I haven’t watched the video but having seen technical measurements of the R5 sensor noise it has two levels of ISO invariance. The first is 100-400 and the second is 800+ (or so I believe). But I would recommend just using the ISO you need to be honest!