Need soe guidance to get consistent photos to use in panoramas!?
I took the photos used to make this panorama using the auto exposure of my Sony A200K!.
http://farm4!.static!.flickr!.com/3065/2864!.!.!.The photo was never meant to be a masterpiece but I wanted to play around with "autostitch" to put a panorama together!.
What I am wondering is best methods to avoid all the differences you see in the blue of the sky!.
In post processing, I did try to vary the exposure compensation and that helped a little but as you can see, it would have been much better to have the camera properly set up!.
Would the consistency have been much closer if I had gone to full manual mode instead of using the auto exposure!?
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Yah: full manual mode, meter for the brightest area of the sky to avoid that blown-out look in the middle!.
Here's what I usually do for panorama shots!. On a tripod, camera sideways in "portrait" orientation, set to f/11, aperture priority, point at the brightest area, take a shot!. Check to see what speed the auto-metering set!. Then use the same setting in manual mode!. Overlap the shots by 30-50%!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Setting the exposure manually would give you consistent results!.However if your shots cover a very wide area of sky,the sky does vary in tone!.It is possible to measure the colour values in the sky and vary the specific values in the blue/cyan range!.This is best done using adjustment layers so as to preserve your original image files!.
If you can use RAW files these give you additional control!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
