edutilos-
Senior Member
If your base is not level, when you pan left and right, your verticals will be off. That's assuming you use a pan-ballhead. If you use a ballhead, then even more likely to be off. I use a 438 Manfrotto levelling base to overcome this issue.. Incidentally it also helps with vertical compositions at the sea (where sometimes you have to put your tripod into contortionist positions and the ballhead angle of movement is limited).
I've never been a very technical person (i.e. defined here as someone who's interested in why tools work the way they do - you can think of it like the person who understands how a chainsaw works, versus someone who only cares about what it does)... But you can read up on what I use here, I'm not sure if it gives you a better idea, but there's loads and loads of articles on nodal points and panorama stitching on the internet: Alpenglow Images » Blog Archive » Shooting panoramas with minimal equipment
Greg Russell is a contact from naturescapes whom I asked about the 438 Manfrotto base, actually. :bsmilie: I did consider a proper pano head but these are just unwieldy, and utterly inconvenient for use during travel imho.
Your verticals on the leftmost frame look alright. I don't use Photoshop to stitch, I use Ptgui. Does PS allow you to select the stitching option, e.g. cylindrical, linear, etc? I usually prefer to use linear option in Ptgui because it keeps lines straight. But the amount of images that you can stitch comfortably is limited. The other methods seem to curve lines somewhat, especially horizontals.
I've never been a very technical person (i.e. defined here as someone who's interested in why tools work the way they do - you can think of it like the person who understands how a chainsaw works, versus someone who only cares about what it does)... But you can read up on what I use here, I'm not sure if it gives you a better idea, but there's loads and loads of articles on nodal points and panorama stitching on the internet: Alpenglow Images » Blog Archive » Shooting panoramas with minimal equipment
Greg Russell is a contact from naturescapes whom I asked about the 438 Manfrotto base, actually. :bsmilie: I did consider a proper pano head but these are just unwieldy, and utterly inconvenient for use during travel imho.
Your verticals on the leftmost frame look alright. I don't use Photoshop to stitch, I use Ptgui. Does PS allow you to select the stitching option, e.g. cylindrical, linear, etc? I usually prefer to use linear option in Ptgui because it keeps lines straight. But the amount of images that you can stitch comfortably is limited. The other methods seem to curve lines somewhat, especially horizontals.
