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ANYWAY, it recommended as an exercise to shoot 200 images a week. TWO. HUNDRED. That's a lot of pix. But from another standpoint, that's 6 or 7 rolls of 36 exposure 35mm film. And you can shoot a roll of film in 10 minutes, no problem. So a roll a day. Not difficult, you just have to do it. So today, when I went down to Alamo to pick up some meds and do some shopping, I made it a point to stop and do some photography. We've had some storms hanging around, which always produces nice clouds and usually some good sunsets. As I was working in Photoshop doing a little bit of post-processing, I ran in to this interesting image.
(click to embiggen)
There is a very serious problem with this image. Can you spot it? You don't need to embiggen it, though you can if you want. It'll probably fill your browser as the image is 27.2" wide by 16.8" high.
The explanation and more images explaining cropping and photo stitching are under the cut. Oooh! I just left a clew!
And that's five more images under the cut, so it might take a minute to fully load.
Look at the dirt in the foreground. There are four different colors of dirt. Well, technically three, as it's not unusual for the little berm on the right side to be a different shade since it doesn't get driven over.
The photo is a stitch of four images, and the exposures were slightly different for all four. When Photoshop blended them together, it was more concerned about getting the sky to blend than the foreground since it was the dominant color across all the images. And honestly, I'm not sure how I'm going to fix it. It's possible that running it through DxO's Film Pack program might do it for me, we'll see.
But this gives me an opportunity to do something that I've wanted to do for a very long time: show people what photo merging looks like!
Photoshop usually does a fantastic job of merging images. When shooting and planning on merging them, you need to plan in advance. The most important thing is to think of two things: overlap and reference points. Think in terms of shooting multiple images starting from the left and panning to the right. It helps to give Photoshop something distinctive on the right side of image 1 that will appear on the left side of image 2: Photoshop will have a much easier time lining up those two images correctly. Likewise done with images 2 and 3, etc.
When Photoshop is done, this is what the merged image looks like:
(click to embiggen)
I've always thought these looked really cool. You can clearly see where the top and bottom of each image intersects with the next. You can also see that I have to do a crop to trim everything in to a nice rectangle. What isn't quite so obvious is that the image is also slightly skewed and needs to be rotated about 3 degrees anti-clockwise.
Now let's get on to the fun stuff. I've created four photos where I've turned off each of the component photos that made up the whole so you can see exactly where they fit! You can also see exactly where the dirt color changes because of exposure differences. Personally, I think this is pretty awesome. You can click on any of them to enlarge them, but I'm removing the reminder so they should be seamlessly together.
Here endeth the lesson. Just wanted to talk about some stuff that I find cool. If I find a way to make the dirt a uniform color, or if someone knows of a way to do it in CS6, I'd love to hear it! An idea just occurred to me, I'll play with it tomorrow as it is definitely my bed time.
ANYWAY, it recommended as an exercise to shoot 200 images a week. TWO. HUNDRED. That's a lot of pix. But from another standpoint, that's 6 or 7 rolls of 36 exposure 35mm film. And you can shoot a roll of film in 10 minutes, no problem. So a roll a day. Not difficult, you just have to do it. So today, when I went down to Alamo to pick up some meds and do some shopping, I made it a point to stop and do some photography. We've had some storms hanging around, which always produces nice clouds and usually some good sunsets. As I was working in Photoshop doing a little bit of post-processing, I ran in to this interesting image.
(click to embiggen)
There is a very serious problem with this image. Can you spot it? You don't need to embiggen it, though you can if you want. It'll probably fill your browser as the image is 27.2" wide by 16.8" high.
The explanation and more images explaining cropping and photo stitching are under the cut. Oooh! I just left a clew!
And that's five more images under the cut, so it might take a minute to fully load.
Look at the dirt in the foreground. There are four different colors of dirt. Well, technically three, as it's not unusual for the little berm on the right side to be a different shade since it doesn't get driven over.
The photo is a stitch of four images, and the exposures were slightly different for all four. When Photoshop blended them together, it was more concerned about getting the sky to blend than the foreground since it was the dominant color across all the images. And honestly, I'm not sure how I'm going to fix it. It's possible that running it through DxO's Film Pack program might do it for me, we'll see.
But this gives me an opportunity to do something that I've wanted to do for a very long time: show people what photo merging looks like!
Photoshop usually does a fantastic job of merging images. When shooting and planning on merging them, you need to plan in advance. The most important thing is to think of two things: overlap and reference points. Think in terms of shooting multiple images starting from the left and panning to the right. It helps to give Photoshop something distinctive on the right side of image 1 that will appear on the left side of image 2: Photoshop will have a much easier time lining up those two images correctly. Likewise done with images 2 and 3, etc.
When Photoshop is done, this is what the merged image looks like:
(click to embiggen)
I've always thought these looked really cool. You can clearly see where the top and bottom of each image intersects with the next. You can also see that I have to do a crop to trim everything in to a nice rectangle. What isn't quite so obvious is that the image is also slightly skewed and needs to be rotated about 3 degrees anti-clockwise.
Now let's get on to the fun stuff. I've created four photos where I've turned off each of the component photos that made up the whole so you can see exactly where they fit! You can also see exactly where the dirt color changes because of exposure differences. Personally, I think this is pretty awesome. You can click on any of them to enlarge them, but I'm removing the reminder so they should be seamlessly together.
Here endeth the lesson. Just wanted to talk about some stuff that I find cool. If I find a way to make the dirt a uniform color, or if someone knows of a way to do it in CS6, I'd love to hear it! An idea just occurred to me, I'll play with it tomorrow as it is definitely my bed time.
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Date: 2018-09-08 09:20 pm (UTC)