Originally posted by jtkratzer It's a bummer a bit of the vignetting shows up in the center of the frame along the stitch. Inherent to the lens?
No, it was the stitch - I could have done a better job fixing the distortion, but would have lost some of the image.
This was just for me and a lazy stitch at that - I just left it. But when I posted it just a bit ago, it bugged me more than it did originally.
I'll probably revisit it.
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Originally posted by kh1234567890 A pain to do but looks good. Hint - shoot your subject first, then they can go and sit down while you fiddle with the surrounding frames
Assuming nothing changes in the transitions while you're doing so... *then* it becomes a pain, or near impossible to do naturally.
I usually take a few test exposures of the extreme EV areas so that I can balance the exposure and leave all of them identical.
Doing so (and doing it quickly before anything can change) actually makes stitching them a piece of cake, providing you've enough coverage.
But yeah - subject first, then work clockwise or counter-clockwise around is the easiest way I've found.
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This was another, also in Wellington, also with the M50/1.4 and K-7... And one where I was not as careful. The close proximity to architectural lines made for crazy distortion, and a missed a bunch of the right side (obviously)... but in the end I just liked how it turned out, even with the botched stitching in a number of spots.