Overview
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From holding the camera to stitching the shots, learn how to turn a series of separate shots into beautiful, seamless panoramic photos.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- The end product
- The objectives to achieve
- Determining a target delivery size
- What is field of view?
- What is the nodal point?
- Post-processing choices for panoramic photography
- A solid tripod for panoramic photography
- Choosing a tripod head
- Lens choices for panoramic photography
- Compensating for the nodal point
- Shooting time-lapse as JPEG files
- Shooting time-lapse as RAW files
- Stitching in a camera
- Leveling the camera platform
- Cleaning the lens
- Locking exposure and focus
- Shooting with overlap
- Minimizing camera shake
- A refresher on exposure triangle
- What is GigaPan?
- Building the GigaPan platform
- Framing and recording the shot with the GigaPan system
- Why shoot an HDR panorama?
- Setting up for the shot
- Shooting the source images
- Shooting a 360-degree panorama
- Shooting handheld
- Shooting panoramas using an iPhone
- Using Photosynth for panoramic photography
- Using Occipital 360 for panoramic photography
- Using a card wallet
- Transferring data
- Choosing a working drive
- Using stacks in Adobe Bridge
- Renaming and renumbering image sequences
- Fixing basic exposure with Camera Raw
- Using graduated filters with Camera Raw
- Advanced recovery with Camera Raw
- Reducing noise with Camera Raw
- Removing dust with Camera Raw
- Choosing a bit depth
- Compensating for lens distortion
- Merging a panorama in Adobe Camera Raw
- Initiating the Photomerge command from Bridge
- Initiating the Photomerge command from Photoshop
- Choosing an alignment method
- Compensating for lens distortion
- Blending the photos
- Post merge cleanup
- Using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter to remove distortion
- Merging a 360-degree panoramic photo
- Cleaning up VR images in Photoshop
- Merging the GigaPan panoramic photo
- Using Photoshop filters to enhance panoramas
- Using the Photo Filter adjustment layer
- Using third-party filters to enhance panoramas
- Refining shadows and highlights
- Improving contrast in panoramic photos
- Adjusting vibrance in panoramic photos
- Converting panoramic photos to black and white
- Should you flatten a panorama?
- Cropping a panoramic photo to a target size and resolution
- Saving panoramas for printing
- Saving panoramas for the web
- Importing photos into Lightroom Classic
- Preprocessing photos in Lightroom Classic
- Initiating the Photo Merge command in Lightroom Classic
- Choosing an alignment method in Lightroom Classic
- Using Boundary Warp in Lightroom Classic
- Merging an HDR panoramic photo in Lightroom Classic
- Developing the new RAW panorama image in Lightroom Classic
- Cropping the panorama in Lightroom Classic
- Sending from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop
- Sending from Lightroom Classic to Luminar
- Goodbye
