Yes. Several times in the last couple of months, especially during my Arizona vacation. I need to upgrade my PC for such ginormous files, though. Great final image by the way!
Thanks for sharing this. What is the reason for the leveling base under the ball head, as being a ball head, the ball itself needs to be adjusted to be level?
Attilio, you didn't mention your focusing technique. I focus in the middle of the scene and do not refocus for the subsequent shots, since this would change the focal length slightly for every shot which may cause a stitching problem.
Anything you do Attilio looks absolute AWESOME, And I mean anything regarding your superb photos, Their is 3 top notch photographers on TH-cam who I watch and you are one of them... Have a great day and 73s from the UK..
Attilio, I just want commit on this most beautiful pano, I'm just getting started with this adventure and I need all help I can get with this stuff, thanks.
I have tried a few merged panoramas including using bracketed exposures. My next attempt will be to mount my camera on my gimbal and try both the preset panoramas (though the working focal length is very reduced), but also a user defined path where I have set 5 waypoints. Once the exposures are taken, I can rotate the tripod head and repeat for a wider field of view if required.
One small time saving suggestion: Separate each group of images with a picture of something much different than the scene to make it obvious when one group ends and the next starts. This makes it faster to select them in the editor. Something as simple as a picture of your outstretched hand is enough.
Have you found use for a "NODAL PLATE, SLIDER, RAIL?" It seems there's a lot of hype about this but I am not sure with today's powerful software if that piece of equipment really helps unless of course your foreground is super close to the camera? I would love to hear your thoughts and thank you for yet again another great video.
Thanks for another great tutorial. I would recommend that even if you plan to do nothing else to the individual raw images before the merge, tick "Enable Profile Corrections" under "Lens Corrections". This has saved a couple of panoramas for me ;)
Attilio Ruffo Lightroom automatically does this when stitching panoramas, if it has a profile for the lens you are using. You can run into trouble if it gets this wrong though. You can test this by applying to a single frame. For my panoramas, Lightroom picks the wrong profile for my Tamron 70-200 2.8 G2 so I have to do this first. However with my Nikon 50mm 1.4D it gets it right. So it's good to know how Lightroom works with your specific gear.
Do you need to find the nodal point before making your panorama photos? Is an issue the parallax effect in order to get perfectly aline your panorama photos?
Ciao Atilio. Incredible shot and very nice video explaining the technique. I also create some panoramas with vertical shots, but attach the camera to the tripod head (similar to yours) directly, with no extra part. Why do you attach the camera this way, since the ball admites vertical position? Greetings from Spain.
I did a very wide panoramic shot, like 10-11 pics in landscape mode (basically got a 180 degree) and, while my first photo had the horizon straight, more or less at the center of the shoot, then last one had the horizon almost at 1/4 from the the bottom. I have 3-way head, so I guess it is good both as leveling base and panoramic head, since it has the spirit level and can rotate freely without affecting the other 2 axes?
Hi Attilio, Thank you for sharing your knowledge on photography and all of the different aspects of it. I am fairly new at this and greatly appreciate people like you with a wide knowledge base, taking the time to inform or teach others like me who want to learn about there camera and how to make beautiful pictures. Thanks again
Thanks for the great video. I have a question I hope you can answer. I just bought a Pan Head and "L" bracket for my Canon Rebel T3I. I have the arca fitting with a center marking on the pan head. The center of the "L" bracket on the camera is not marked either horizontal or vertical and has a slot for mounting on each side. When mounting it in landscape mode I have no trouble determining the center point because of a mark on the camera over the mounting hole, but when trying to mount it in the Portrait position I don't know how to determine the proper point to put it over the pivot point. Is it critical that it be directly over the pivot point as in landscape mode and if so can you describe a way to determine the point to be centered in the arca fitting on the head it? Thanks
Just found your channel, and have been binge watching your videos. Great videos! Something here strikes me as odd though. You add a levelling base to ensure the top of the tripod is perfectly level, so that when you take the panorama shots they are all perfectly in line with the horizon. You then add a ball mount, before adding the panorama base. So you made sure the top of the tripod is perfectly level, then added a ball head to ensure that it might not be perfectly level? Imagine tilting the ball head at 45 degrees. Now instead of a nice horizontal pan, you're shooting an arc through the sky. I would think that adding the panorama base below the ball head would be better, or just not use the ball head period. Am I missing something here?
Nice video. Yes, done that too. Nowadays with a 3D pano tilt head. This allows the camera to be slid back as well as left--right, in order for the nodal point of your lens to be exactly in the central rotation point of the head. This way, you get a perfect alignment near to far so stitching is easy - if nothing in the subject moves :)
Hi Attilio! Thank you for another interesting video! But as an engineer, there is just one thing I have to point out. First you put a leveling base on your tripod, and then a ball head... That makes no sense. The ball head can rotate in any direction, so the leveling base is "cancelled out". It would be better to put the pano head right onto the leveling base. Or skip the leveling base, use a ball head, and then level the top of the ball head before mounting the pano head :-) Looking forward to your next video!
Thanks! You have a good point, and I agree that the tripod head could cancel out the leveling base if not leveled as well! I am just used to put the the pano head on the tripod head, even if the tripod head wouldn’t be necessary...
This confused me too, why it was necessary to use a panning head when the ball head itself is capable of panning. What I do is mount my Oben levelling base onto the tripod, then the ballhead. I first get the levelling base level, then level the ball head mount before attaching the camera. I use the ball head to pan. My levelling base just stays on the tripod all the time.
IMO rotating the ball head can introduce more error by slightly changing the camera's tilt. Better to rotate the base and keep the camera's tilt locked. If you have a pan head with a built-in spirit level, you don't need a separate leveling base. OTOH, unless the camera is absolutely parallel to the ground (no up or down tilt), you're still going to have some lateral tilt at either or both ends of the panorama. That's fine. Just allow for some cropping when you compose the pano, as well as adjust the pano mode in Lightroom.
Do you focus for each image? I understand you wouldn't move the focus point. Or would you just focus once than set the camera to manual focus and not focus each shot?
Hi Attilio, I have to confess...I've been a fan of yours for quite some time now....and fore some reason i find this video amazing....love your content!!!
Great video. It would have been nice if you can show us jow you wenr from the original pano to the finshed one. There is great difference between the two.
hello Attilio, Pablo here, from Argentina. i ve got a question. What % of your are made taking with panoramic technique, and what % are one single shot. Thanks my friend
Hello Attilio, I just watched this video of yours from two years ago. Are you still uploading other videos on You-tube? I haven't seen any for quite some time? A presto.
@@AttilioRuffo Attilio, just to encourage you, after using my D810 I purchased the D850 and the auto-focus and quality of the images I can definitely tell the difference. I tried the Z7 first version and I didn't like it. I live the d850 and the whole package. Nikon had discounted by $500 dollars down to $2500 and I could not resist. I do still keep my D810 for backup.
I thought I'd seen all of your videos, but I must have missed this one. I'm glad I watched it. The panoramic ball head...I need one. Very informative video! Hopefully I can get some decent panoramas.
Thank you so much Attilio for this great video, the stunning image and your good explications! I`ve seen almost all of your Videos and I learned so much. Please keep on doing this fantastic Channel!
Wow!!! Really nice to look your photographic videos. I am really pleased. I love photography but I am totally beginner in this field but by watching your videos i have got more willingness and interest to be a good photographer. I am following your tips that you have given in every video. Thanks and appreciate your every efforts. With Regards.
Hi Attilio! Thank you for another great tutorial. I was think if you would consider take another set of pano but with long exposures so you can smooth out the water. Then merge them in Photoshop so the grass is in focus but the water is creamy
This technique would work well as long as the blades of long grass do not appear superimposed over the water. If this happens, you would have to mask in between the individual blades of grass and the result is never esthetic.
I only dabble in panoramas, am still learning. One challenge I ran into recently doing a similar seaside image was that I realised to stitch properly, I needed the waves to be in about the same spot for each frame. Since no two waves are identical, I found it really hard to get smooth wave lines once it was put together. Hard to explain, I hope I'm making sense. Anyway, what I did was choose a reference point in the composition, then made sure I clicked the shutter as each wave reached that point. It still wasn't perfect, I had to do a lot of manual blending. Do you have any special trick for this situation? My default would be to use a slow shutter to smooth out the water, but like in your situation, the wind would have made plants and things blurry as well.
Is there any limit on the photos that can be merged in Photoshop ? I tried to merge 6 to 7 photos in Photoshop, but photoshop did not merged them all together but it stitched 4 together and remaining 3 together, that too one below the others...Not sure how to stick them together. They all are shot using tripod.
Great video but I have a question on your setup. You put a leveling head on the tripod then a ball head. Doesn’t that negate the leveling base? Also you use a pano head on top of the ball head. Can’t you just use the rotation on the bullhead? It seems the more you add the more likely something can go wrong or am I missing something?
The levelling base is easier than levelling the tripod by adjusting the legs, so useful but not needed. It makes the axis of rotation perfectly vertical, which is the most important part of the pano. If you do this, even if the camera is crooked the pano will still work (but it doesn't look as pretty before you crop).
Attilio Very information and helpful. I compared your technique with my own and noted a few difference, especially regarding exposure and the crop ratio; which I will be trying out. I've long stopped using a ball head when doing panoramas and instead use an Induro 5 way Pan Tilt Head which incorporated both a leveling base and the panorama swivel plate to rotate my Nikon D850. Also curious as to the focal length of the lens, as I prefer to use either the 24-70 or 70-200 for most of my work. Very much appreciated the clear and concise manor of the presentation Peter
Enjoyed the video and found it helpful in developing my panaromas. I dont k ow if you use sliders in your time lapse movies but it would be great to see a video about them, there use, manual vs electronic, etc. Look forward to future videos.
I liked your technique in taking that kind of photos. My questions here are, You used 2 different piece of tripod accessories, the leveling and panoramic base. Are they necessary for taking that kind of shots? And if i don't have any of them are there any alternatives? The second thing is, form where are you generally buying these kind of accessories? Is it from Amazon or from other place? Lastly, how can I measure the 1/3 distance between photos? Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks Mohamed! Yes, it is very helpful to use those tools for Panoramic Photos, you can get them through Amazon, I put some links in the video description. You can calculate the 1/3rd overlap between pictures, either by using reference points in the scene, or by using the ruler in the panoramic head...
Attilio, Great, useful tips. I've taken quite a few panoramic photo's. Your tips will improve me photo's. Thank you again for the informative tutorial. Please keep them coming.
Hi Attilio, I really love your work How do you choose the location for you photos? I mean, do you do some research of the places you want to photograph? Thank you!!
Thx for this sharing Mr. Ruffo, anyway I still have a question just when you say "shoot 1/3" I first thought it's going to be like 60 degree for 3 pictures then we shoot 180 degree and use that as 3 raw file pics for final adjustment? Turned out, you didn't shoot 3 pics, but it was 8. So my question is what degree difference we should give for each shot we make from one shot to the next for the best final output? If you would please clarify this technique for me ...
@@AttilioRuffo Thanks Attilio, I havent tried it yet but watched Morten Hilmer explain how he used it with the same ball head you have, by the way I am showing a video of yours at my camera club (Inverclyde, Scotland) on the 19th Nov, which I'm sure they will enjoy, thanks >>Link to your video>> th-cam.com/video/USsTvsl3ge8/w-d-xo.html
@@AttilioRuffo Thanks Attilio, that would be great, here is my email address - trevor_lloyd@me.com The Camera club is called "Inverclyde Camera Club",, much appreciated
I like the levelling head attachment and wish I'd had one for the last several years as panos are one of my favourite landscape capture modes. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from BC
Have you tried this technique before?
not sure!
Many times :)
cool!
Yes. Several times in the last couple of months, especially during my Arizona vacation. I need to upgrade my PC for such ginormous files, though. Great final image by the way!
I know, my Mac suffers too...
Thanks for sharing this. What is the reason for the leveling base under the ball head, as being a ball head, the ball itself needs to be adjusted to be level?
Exactly what I thought... Only use what's needed lol
I just watched one of your short videos on how maybe we should think about the artistic aspect as opposed to the technical, just a point to ponder.
Oh... you know, I like that! :-)
Attilio, you didn't mention your focusing technique. I focus in the middle of the scene and do not refocus for the subsequent shots, since this would change the focal length slightly for every shot which may cause a stitching problem.
Anything you do Attilio looks absolute AWESOME, And I mean anything regarding your superb photos, Their is 3 top notch photographers on TH-cam who I watch and you are one of them... Have a great day and 73s from the UK..
Thanks a lot!
BEAUTIFUL IMAGE .... GREAT GUIDANCE ON HOW TO CAPTUE LIKE THIS
Attilio, I just want commit on this most beautiful pano, I'm just getting started with this adventure and I need all help I can get with this stuff, thanks.
excellent work, thanks for sharing, it's very inspiring way to shoot nice places. More videos to share, thanks again, i learned a lot from this.
Thanks 🙏
I have tried a few merged panoramas including using bracketed exposures. My next attempt will be to mount my camera on my gimbal and try both the preset panoramas (though the working focal length is very reduced), but also a user defined path where I have set 5 waypoints. Once the exposures are taken, I can rotate the tripod head and repeat for a wider field of view if required.
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One small time saving suggestion: Separate each group of images with a picture of something much different than the scene to make it obvious when one group ends and the next starts. This makes it faster to select them in the editor. Something as simple as a picture of your outstretched hand is enough.
Cool! :-)
I simply shoot my hand to achieve this- super helpful.
Great idea. Thanks!
Have you found use for a "NODAL PLATE, SLIDER, RAIL?" It seems there's a lot of hype about this but I am not sure with today's powerful software if that piece of equipment really helps unless of course your foreground is super close to the camera?
I would love to hear your thoughts and thank you for yet again another great video.
I would recommend a cheap nodal slider. Your stitch will come out more accurate I have found
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Again, impressive. The spirit of an artist the skill of a technician.
Thank You Mark!
Thanks for another great tutorial. I would recommend that even if you plan to do nothing else to the individual raw images before the merge, tick "Enable Profile Corrections" under "Lens Corrections". This has saved a couple of panoramas for me ;)
Thanks Don! That’s a good tip...
Attilio Ruffo Lightroom automatically does this when stitching panoramas, if it has a profile for the lens you are using. You can run into trouble if it gets this wrong though. You can test this by applying to a single frame. For my panoramas, Lightroom picks the wrong profile for my Tamron 70-200 2.8 G2 so I have to do this first. However with my Nikon 50mm 1.4D it gets it right. So it's good to know how Lightroom works with your specific gear.
Doesn't parallax come into effect since you are rotating based on the body of the camera rather than the entrance pupil of the lens?
Yes it does, but you will not really notice when you don’t have an element in the foreground..
@@AttilioRuffo Ok. Thanks
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Love the Panorama feature in Lightroom... Just getting started with it...
hi attilio, why you did not use the nodal point technique in this video maybe you had not to crop a lot your final panorama like you did ?
Do you need to find the nodal point before making your panorama photos? Is an issue the parallax effect in order to get perfectly aline your panorama photos?
Do you shoot in manual focus? How can you tell if you are overlapping 1/3 over the prior photo?
Hello Attilo, i love your work. You are a true artist. Robert
U r not telling a story only through ur pictures but also through the way u shoot, 😎
Thank you 🙏
how did you focus for this? one for each shot or you focused once and used the same focus distance in subsequent shots?
Bella panoramica e come al solito sei chiaro e preciso complimenti ancora.
Grazie mille Alberto!
Ciao Atilio. Incredible shot and very nice video explaining the technique.
I also create some panoramas with vertical shots, but attach the camera to the tripod head (similar to yours) directly, with no extra part. Why do you attach the camera this way, since the ball admites vertical position?
Greetings from Spain.
I did a very wide panoramic shot, like 10-11 pics in landscape mode (basically got a 180 degree) and, while my first photo had the horizon straight, more or less at the center of the shoot, then last one had the horizon almost at 1/4 from the the bottom. I have 3-way head, so I guess it is good both as leveling base and panoramic head, since it has the spirit level and can rotate freely without affecting the other 2 axes?
You still need a leveling base in my opinion to make sure to keep your image straight while rotating...
Not only did you do an amazing job with this panorama but your presentation videoIs alsoFirst quality. Bravo!
Thank you very much Mike!
Hi Attilio, Thank you for sharing your knowledge on photography and all of the different aspects of it. I am fairly new at this and greatly appreciate people like you with a wide knowledge base, taking the time to inform or teach others like me who want to learn about there camera and how to make beautiful pictures. Thanks again
thanks a lot Jan!
Thanks for the great video. I have a question I hope you can answer.
I just bought a Pan Head and "L" bracket for my Canon Rebel T3I. I have
the arca fitting with a center marking on the pan head. The center of
the "L" bracket on the camera is not marked either horizontal or
vertical and has a slot for mounting on each side. When mounting it in
landscape mode I have no trouble determining the center point because of
a mark
on the camera over the mounting hole, but when trying to mount it in
the Portrait position I don't know how to determine the proper point to
put it over the pivot point. Is it critical that it be directly over the
pivot point as in landscape mode and if so can you describe a way to
determine the point to be centered in the arca fitting on the head it?
Thanks
Your work is completely amazing thank you for sharing
Just found your channel, and have been binge watching your videos. Great videos!
Something here strikes me as odd though. You add a levelling base to ensure the top of the tripod is perfectly level, so that when you take the panorama shots they are all perfectly in line with the horizon. You then add a ball mount, before adding the panorama base. So you made sure the top of the tripod is perfectly level, then added a ball head to ensure that it might not be perfectly level? Imagine tilting the ball head at 45 degrees. Now instead of a nice horizontal pan, you're shooting an arc through the sky.
I would think that adding the panorama base below the ball head would be better, or just not use the ball head period. Am I missing something here?
I don't think a ball head is needed if you have a panorama base on a leveling base. A leveling base, ballhead, and panning base seems redundant.
He had not the equipment at the optical center
What is ment by Cylindrical and Spherical option during editing , please mention its importance and why
Nice video. Yes, done that too. Nowadays with a 3D pano tilt head. This allows the camera to be slid back as well as left--right, in order for the nodal point of your lens to be exactly in the central rotation point of the head. This way, you get a perfect alignment near to far so stitching is easy - if nothing in the subject moves :)
Thanks. Yes that would be the ideal setup...
Good technique, would you consider using a shutter cable release?
Oh yes!!!
Very interesting and useful. What lens are best for panoramic?
thanks Andrew...check out this video, I talk about the lenses th-cam.com/video/If7n4PmkCU4/w-d-xo.html
Great video, I know nothing about Lr so was good to see this. Not sure about which crop to use or how to make it into a jpeg
Thanks
Thank you. I have a question about using aperture priority and with f/8 or f/11. Where do you prefer to have focus in the photo?
Oh good question and I have a video about that, coming soon.. 👍
Hi Attilio, all of good to you,
You have a way to explain, as a very good teacher, everything seems easy, congratulations.
Thanks a lot! 🙏
Hi Attilio! Thank you for another interesting video! But as an engineer, there is just one thing I have to point out. First you put a leveling base on your tripod, and then a ball head... That makes no sense. The ball head can rotate in any direction, so the leveling base is "cancelled out". It would be better to put the pano head right onto the leveling base. Or skip the leveling base, use a ball head, and then level the top of the ball head before mounting the pano head :-) Looking forward to your next video!
Thanks! You have a good point, and I agree that the tripod head could cancel out the leveling base if not leveled as well!
I am just used to put the the pano head on the tripod head, even if the tripod head wouldn’t be necessary...
This confused me too, why it was necessary to use a panning head when the ball head itself is capable of panning. What I do is mount my Oben levelling base onto the tripod, then the ballhead. I first get the levelling base level, then level the ball head mount before attaching the camera. I use the ball head to pan. My levelling base just stays on the tripod all the time.
Actually is the ball head that is unnecessary, if you want you can mount the pano head directly on the leveling base...
IMO rotating the ball head can introduce more error by slightly changing the camera's tilt. Better to rotate the base and keep the camera's tilt locked. If you have a pan head with a built-in spirit level, you don't need a separate leveling base.
OTOH, unless the camera is absolutely parallel to the ground (no up or down tilt), you're still going to have some lateral tilt at either or both ends of the panorama. That's fine. Just allow for some cropping when you compose the pano, as well as adjust the pano mode in Lightroom.
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Thank you for this best video
I really appreciate your work
Thank you for all what you do
Very beautiful photo. Love you work!
Thank you Sharon!
Do you focus for each image? I understand you wouldn't move the focus point. Or would you just focus once than set the camera to manual focus and not focus each shot?
do you have to fix the exposure for every shot in a panorama?
Thanks! When edit your video in this video what program do you use.
Thanks! I use final cut pro
Thanks 👍
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Beautiful location. Beautiful light.
Thank You Michelle!
wow, thanks for the guide, your video helps me a lot... I'll gonna try to some panoramic photos....
Great edit my friend!
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Hi Attilio, I have to confess...I've been a fan of yours for quite some time now....and fore some reason i find this video amazing....love your content!!!
Thanks a lot! I really appreciate it 🙏
your editing skill is amazing. I would say, you are a digital Rembrandt. You see things in the photo that are hidden and bring them out. Fantastic.
Thank you so much!
lol
Great video but a very quick question - why is the camera vertical and not horizontal? Do you always shoot panoramic this way?
Yes I do!
do you change focus if there a changing in depth of field when taking panoramic photo?
I try to keep the same focus and same depth of field, the merging will be smoother...
Great video. It would have been nice if you can show us jow you wenr from the original pano to the finshed one. There is great difference between the two.
Thanks! More editing video will come soon... :-)
I usually matrix metre then switch to manual, turn off auto focus,,,, and fire,,,,, same exposure for every shot,,, thanks for the video 📹, x
Thanks Robert!
Lovely to make contact with you attillio, thanks for all the hard work you have done,, Bob
Nice to meet you! :-)
Great job. Thanks for the clear, concise tutorial!
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Great skills ,great pictures .love you from China
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hello Attilio, Pablo here, from Argentina. i ve got a question. What % of your are made taking with panoramic technique, and what % are one single shot. Thanks my friend
Hello Attilio, I just watched this video of yours from two years ago. Are you still uploading other videos on You-tube? I haven't seen any for quite some time? A presto.
I am waiting to have a little more freedom to move around safely... 😷
@@AttilioRuffo Attilio, just to encourage you, after using my D810 I purchased the D850 and the auto-focus and quality of the images I can definitely tell the difference. I tried the Z7 first version and I didn't like it. I live the d850 and the whole package. Nikon had discounted by $500 dollars down to $2500 and I could not resist. I do still keep my D810 for backup.
I thought I'd seen all of your videos, but I must have missed this one. I'm glad I watched it. The panoramic ball head...I need one. Very informative video! Hopefully I can get some decent panoramas.
Thanks 🙏
Thank you so much Attilio for this great video, the stunning image and your good explications! I`ve seen almost all of your Videos and I learned so much. Please keep on doing this fantastic Channel!
Thank you 🙏
I will be back soon...
Yes, I did enjoy seeing the process you used to take, merge and edit this photo. I also really enjoyed the panorama posted on Instagram earlier today.
I appreciate Stephen! Thank you
Thanks for the videos it is pleasure to follow you ,learning allot
Thank You! I appreciate it 👍
I haven't seen someone do it in A priority yet. Looks great!!
Hi Attilio, I may have missed it, what lens and focal length were you using?
I used my 70-200mm, at 70mm
thank-you
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Wow!!! Really nice to look your photographic videos. I am really pleased. I love photography but I am totally beginner in this field but by watching your videos i have got more willingness and interest to be a good photographer. I am following your tips that you have given in every video. Thanks and appreciate your every efforts. With Regards.
Thank you very much! Go out and shoot... :-)
Hi Attilio! Thank you for another great tutorial. I was think if you would consider take another set of pano but with long exposures so you can smooth out the water. Then merge them in Photoshop so the grass is in focus but the water is creamy
Thanks 🙏
Yes I did that too! But in the end I liked normal exposure better :-)
I guess by the time I finished the long exposure version I had lost the good light... :-(
This technique would work well as long as the blades of long grass do not appear superimposed over the water. If this happens, you would have to mask in between the individual blades of grass and the result is never esthetic.
I only dabble in panoramas, am still learning. One challenge I ran into recently doing a similar seaside image was that I realised to stitch properly, I needed the waves to be in about the same spot for each frame. Since no two waves are identical, I found it really hard to get smooth wave lines once it was put together. Hard to explain, I hope I'm making sense.
Anyway, what I did was choose a reference point in the composition, then made sure I clicked the shutter as each wave reached that point. It still wasn't perfect, I had to do a lot of manual blending. Do you have any special trick for this situation? My default would be to use a slow shutter to smooth out the water, but like in your situation, the wind would have made plants and things blurry as well.
Nice tut and final image. (the word you were looking for of the numbers on the base "engraved" :) )
Thanks! :-)
I use a ball head but no panoramic head so I need onr of them. I will test using a 45mmPC on my D800E or D700
what tripod is that that he is using? the link in the description is broken
Great video. Thanks for sharing. I noticed you use lightroom a lot. Why not photoshop?
Thanks! Io use photoshop sometimes, but I do prefer LR user interface
Wow Super captured picture then Nicely Edited
Loving your photography
Thank You 🙏
Is there any limit on the photos that can be merged in Photoshop ?
I tried to merge 6 to 7 photos in Photoshop, but photoshop did not merged them all together but it stitched 4 together and remaining 3 together, that too one below the others...Not sure how to stick them together. They all are shot using tripod.
I merged even 11 photos, so I believe that you might have had a different problem..
Hi, Atílio! And about parallax effect? No word?
The parallax effect will only effect the photo if you have something in the foreground, then you will need a nodal slide...
Great video but I have a question on your setup. You put a leveling head on the tripod then a ball head. Doesn’t that negate the leveling base? Also you use a pano head on top of the ball head. Can’t you just use the rotation on the bullhead? It seems the more you add the more likely something can go wrong or am I missing something?
Thanks. Yes, I could just put the pano head on top of the leveling base...
The levelling base is easier than levelling the tripod by adjusting the legs, so useful but not needed. It makes the axis of rotation perfectly vertical, which is the most important part of the pano. If you do this, even if the camera is crooked the pano will still work (but it doesn't look as pretty before you crop).
I do find it very convenient!
Have you ever thought making some kind of challenge on insta with the top 5 photos be on your video? But with specific instructions
I did have similar Instagram challenges...
@@AttilioRuffo really.....? Oh man... I'm going to check
Went out on a day that looks pretty crappy to me. came home with an awesome picture, after editing in LR.
:-)
I really enjoyed this video, thanks for taking us with you!
Thanks!
Attilio
Very information and helpful. I compared your technique with my own and noted a few difference, especially regarding exposure and the crop ratio; which I will be trying out. I've long stopped using a ball head when doing panoramas and instead use an Induro 5 way Pan Tilt Head which incorporated both a leveling base and the panorama swivel plate to rotate my Nikon D850. Also curious as to the focal length of the lens, as I prefer to use either the 24-70 or 70-200 for most of my work.
Very much appreciated the clear and concise manor of the presentation
Peter
Thanks Peter!
I'm in love With U from the first time I saw Ur work😘
ThankYou 🙏🙏🙏
Enjoyed the video and found it helpful in developing my panaromas.
I dont k ow if you use sliders in your time lapse movies but it would be great to see a video about them, there use, manual vs electronic, etc.
Look forward to future videos.
Thanks Shawn, I will make a video about time lapses soon!
Enjoying your videos! Thank you!
Thanks a lot!
I liked your technique in taking that kind of photos.
My questions here are,
You used 2 different piece of tripod accessories, the leveling and panoramic base.
Are they necessary for taking that kind of shots? And if i don't have any of them are there any alternatives?
The second thing is, form where are you generally buying these kind of accessories? Is it from Amazon or from other place?
Lastly, how can I measure the 1/3 distance between photos?
Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks Mohamed! Yes, it is very helpful to use those tools for Panoramic Photos, you can get them through Amazon, I put some links in the video description. You can calculate the 1/3rd overlap between pictures, either by using reference points in the scene, or by using the ruler in the panoramic head...
Beautiful capture and yes more of the same please. Nicely done 👌
Thanks 🙏
very good video, thanks. Very helpfull
Where do you get that nice music in the background?
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Is there any technique to achieve the same full frame look if it is shooting with crop sensor camera.
I am not aware of that! :-(
Attilio,
Great, useful tips.
I've taken quite a few panoramic photo's. Your tips will improve me photo's.
Thank you again for the informative tutorial.
Please keep them coming.
Thanks a lot Mike!
Great Video Attilio. I need a pano head, it streamlines the workflow for sure. Adjusting and looking at the camera lever takes to much time. Regards!
Thanks 🙏
Attilio, Thank you for these fabulous videos. Very informative. Quick question -- what brand of panoramic head do you use?
John O'Connell lll
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Hi Attilio, I really love your work
How do you choose the location for you photos?
I mean, do you do some research of the places you want to photograph?
Thank you!!
Thanks Carlos! Yes I do some research and planning ahead, I might do a video about that!
Excellent!!
Love to see it.
Thanks
Carlos Garcia Alonso 👍
I am just confused, why do you use aperture priority and not full manual mode?
Don't you have issues then with the different exposures?
Not an issue at all!
Check out my camera settings video... :-)
Thx for this sharing Mr. Ruffo, anyway I still have a question just when you say "shoot 1/3" I first thought it's going to be like 60 degree for 3 pictures then we shoot 180 degree and use that as 3 raw file pics for final adjustment? Turned out, you didn't shoot 3 pics, but it was 8. So my question is what degree difference we should give for each shot we make from one shot to the next for the best final output?
If you would please clarify this technique for me ...
Brilliant job
Cant you let the ball head drop 90º into the slot to have the camera in portrait mode?
Yes you can do that too!
@@AttilioRuffo Thanks Attilio, I havent tried it yet but watched Morten Hilmer explain how he used it with the same ball head you have, by the way I am showing a video of yours at my camera club (Inverclyde, Scotland) on the 19th Nov, which I'm sure they will enjoy, thanks >>Link to your video>> th-cam.com/video/USsTvsl3ge8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing my video at your Camera Club, please say hi to everyone from me! Maybe I can send you a little clip where I actually say hi...
@@AttilioRuffo Thanks Attilio, that would be great, here is my email address - trevor_lloyd@me.com The Camera club is called "Inverclyde Camera Club",, much appreciated
Cool Trevor, will do...
Great tutorial and stunning turbo workflow to the final LR setup ! Could you tell me / us what you do theire ?
Interesting. Can you stack images in Lightroom?
Yes you can!
Excellent! Thanks.
👍
Thanks sir this was very good details
I like the levelling head attachment and wish I'd had one for the last several years as panos are one of my favourite landscape capture modes. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from BC
Thank You 🙏
Great video Attilio. I enjoy watching your way of working in the field and feeling your passion for photography 👌
Thanks Andy!
Hi Attilio, great video. I would love to take and edit my panorama's but I have no clue how to find images stored on my hard drive using Lightroom!!
Thanks Andy! I have some videos about that...
Very informative... Great output 👏, thanks for taking time to create such videos...
Thanks a lot!