On 6/30/2015 6:04 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
The landscape does not seem to suffer, if indeed you moved for the second
shot. With the engine, things don't look quite right. But then if it's
for-the-record shot, it doesn't matter.
I hate to admit it, especially here, but it was a bored, what do I do now, shot. I don't have the same railroad bug that
so many here enjoy, and had been in the museum long enough, but Carol was still engaged. I saw the little girl against
the big engine, took a shot, then thought to take another from a different vantage point.
Had I thought of it as photography, not railroad, and panorama, I'd have done a much better job. Also, the train was
only partially restored to photogenic glory.
Do you correct distortion before stitching?
Yes I think it makes a difference in the quality of the stitch, and remember doing it in the old days, although not
whether I did for that loooong locomotive. I doubt if I did for Mossbrae Falls, as that 17-35 mm zoom has very low
linear distortion at 35 mm.
With my current µ4/3 gear, the lenses are distortion corrected in conversion, unless one goes to some trouble to avoid
it. As I've posted examples showing, the default correction is not perfect at the short end of the 12-50. But at the
longer focal lengths I've been using for panorama series, there is little anyway.
On my first attempts I did not,
but with the few I double-shot this past trip, I tried correcting the
distortion before stitching. _Seemed_ to work. The final product was closer
to a real rectangle than the stitches done without distortion correction.
Question for the exceptionally anal among us: If you stitch a pano, and
then use LR's distortion correction, and you spitting in the wind? It would
seem to me you are, as the stitch provides an image that would not fit any
existing lens's profile.
There are two options, no? Auto/profile, which won't match, and Manual, which you could use, to see if it adds anything.
In the PS stitcher, there are several options, which do different things to the corners.
Stitched Up Moose
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