I thought I'd try a panorama (8 shots) of those big flowering plants on the top of Mt Dandenong (the tallest flowering plants in the world, and second in height only to the Sequoia redwood).
Thanks for looking.
We're pretty lucky having this just on the outskirts of Melbourne.
Hey Bob, with the 8 picture pano I took everything on automatic mode and as soon as I had some sky in the background the trees came out dark. I was pretty amazed at how much detail I could get out of the images using levels and brightness in photoshop. I suppose to avoid the situation I should try to get the sun behind me, and maybe try using exposure lock on the camera. Any suggestions welcome. One of the original pictures is attached.
Interesting Tim, and yes, Auto will have a tendency to that with pano's, even horizontal pano's, ?
A couple of ways you can help avoid irregular consistency, is to have the White Balance set to a particular balance and not on auto - as auto can change the WB setting from one pic to another, plays havoc when have lots of shy in the scene, particularly horizontals,, !
Having as you mention, Exposure Lock would most likely defeat the purpose of exposing evenly over the scene, take this shot of yours, you have a dark scene down low and a bright scene at the top, the exposure wont change to compensate for the larger dynamic range, ie. dark down low, and bright up top.
Tho having Aperture Value set, say F10, would help as when the scene brightens as you shoot higher into the tree canopy, the exposure will automatically shorten accordingly !!!
Also, if/when doing this, its best to over lap each phot by half or more, even 3/4, this helps the stitching program, eg, PShop, to Blend the dynamic ranges steadily across all images ...
Hope this is understandable & helpful !
All the best !
