Interesting idea, to shoot panoramas of the everyday life. But also difficult, because the subjects of everyday life don't stay put while one can take 2-3, or 10 pictures to be stitched. And in a city there are a lot of elements that are close and moving fast, and that's making the stitching/blending more difficult. And if you shoot handheld, you've got the recipe to spend some while on the computer trying to fix things
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Yes, Andrei, people moving can be a problem.. Now if you use AutoPano Pro, at least the latest versions, should get rid of ghosting where someone has moved. Now why APP picks one versus another instance of the same person I don't know. If a car is moving across the scene and part of the car is caught in one shot and the other in a subsequent picture, then APP will automatically stitch them together, or can make them vanish. I haven't figured out how to control these factors but hte default is to have one figure and the duplicate instances of that person are removed......or should be.
In a busy place, one can also take repeated pics of where the people are going by and stacking the images can remove all the people and the street will be utterly empty.
How many shots you have stitched here? I guess you did it handheld, that's why is the black spaces on the top-left side. I also guess you had landscape shots instead of portrait and you don't have too many frames.
The pictures were on a drive with 31,000 images rescued from a crashed LaCie drive! Since there are no names I can relate to, I have to check all the images. I put stuff that seemed to be panos into one folder and dumped that to APP to have it automatically recognize panoramas for stitching. In this case, it took 12 pics, all landscape and stitched them. However, the mailman in the shadow of the trees, was present in 5 pictures! I processed over-exposed, under-exposed and as shot from in ACR. Then I put copies in a large blank black photoshop picture with a black b.g. and manually lined things up to see what was redundant. So I carefully removed as many pictures as I could, sacrificing some height and ending up with just two adjacent images which would stitch together perfectly. With leaves and branches, I think it's best to have the least overlap. I trimmed both a tad so that the join and good overlap is to the right of the right-hand edge of the mail truck.
I then made sure everything was vertical and use a cylindrical projection and then straighten the verticals.
So now the image is represented:
Before:
© Asher Kelman "The Mailman Arrives" (APP selected images)
Reprocessed thought RAW, 2 images with 3 levels of development in ACR. This is not ready for printing, I just worked up a jpg for show. I have to look at the blending of the layers and leave out the over-exposed layer. The leaves on the right are way to light. I'll have to check the roof color first as it seems rather pale. Still I like the idea and will do more.
© Asher Kelman "The Mailman Arrives" hand matched pair
Now I think the ghost car, in the original, was really a
"trompe l'oeil" and just an effect of the shadows of the trees playing with our minds! I'll do more but using portrait mode!
Asher
