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and adding an en-suit to my bedroom, so I have been a bit busy.
My bedroom!
Anyway, back on topic!
Thanks for the comments guys, I am way too doddery to hand hold anything much under 1/1,000 Sec, and all my attempts at hand holding pano's have been
a complete wast of time.
These sunset panoramas need very slow shutter speeds, this one, which I think is my best to date was taken with the D200 with the Nikkor 50mm f1.4, @ f1.4-1/6 Sec, ISO 200
in Manual mode and locked WB, using 6 exposures stitched together in Photoshop CC15.
It is the Duddon Bar, the junction of the Duddon estuary and the Irish sea with the Isle of Man in the distance (52 Miles) taken 50 minutes after sunset.
(It really needs a screen 6 feet wide to do it justice)
Eric, I have had a look at PTGui, that looks really good although it's outside my budget atm, I will d/l the demo version to get a feel of it. From my experiences
so far I feel I would need the full version to deal with the lens vignetting and balance between the adjoining images, which I find the biggest challenge in
stitching panoramas, getting rid of the dark areas in the vicinity of the joints, it is really hard to get a totally even graduation across the entire image because the
images are all different due to natural conditions.
The spherical stitched panoramas are stunning, although they seem to call for a fish eye for simplicity. I can think of several places where I could make good use
of a spherical image.
Yes, I would love to extend this to IR, again I can think of several excellent subjects not too far from here.
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Robert.