Originally posted by Don Boyd Mike, your images are a delight.
thank you Don!
Originally posted by Thomasbrowphoto Nice as always mike. I really like the top one. Im interested to know what pano setup you are using, and could you share a picture of the set up? Im looking at options for my 645Z... Trying to avoid parallax!
Tom
Thanks Tom! I shoot many a pano and so far have never had a need for any nodal correction equipment. I guess i rarely place close foreground objects in my pano comps to cause significant parallax error. For mid-ground objects, all the current pano stitching software seems to take care of it automatically. I did sit down and fiddle with a couple of special pano rigs in the past and concluded that:
1) i don't trust the sturdiness of the bracket style rigs to not translate vibration to the image
2) I don't want to fiddle with a nodal rig in the dark or in cold windy weather, or when the light is changing and i want to be shooting
3) I havent experienced any issues with stitching yet.
I use Photoshop CC 2014 primarily for the stitching. I used to use Hugin for all my panos and think it does a better job with the tricky ones, but PS is faster and handles 90% of them just fine and with better blending of frames. Hugin used to choke on vertical panos (such as a tall tree or the Eiffel tower, for example), but perhaps they solved it in the latest version, i don't know.