Shooting and Processing Panoramas

From holding the camera to stitching the shots, learn how to turn a series of separate shots into beautiful, seamless panoramic photos.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. What Is Panoramic Photography?

• The end product
• The objectives to achieve

2. Technical Essentials

• Determining a target delivery size
• What is field of view?
• What is the nodal point?
• Post-processing choices for panoramic photography

3. Equipment: What You'll Need and What You Might Want

• A solid tripod for panoramic photography
• Choosing a tripod head
• Lens choices for panoramic photography
• Compensating for the nodal point

4. Choosing a Shooting Format

• Shooting time-lapse as JPEG files
• Shooting time-lapse as RAW files
• Stitching in a camera

5. Shooting Strategies for Panoramic Photography

• Leveling the camera platform
• Cleaning the lens
• Locking exposure and focus
• Shooting with overlap
• Minimizing camera shake
• A refresher on exposure triangle

6. Shooting with the GigaPan System

• What is GigaPan?
• Building the GigaPan platform
• Framing and recording the shot with the GigaPan system

7. Shooting HDR Panoramas

• Why shoot an HDR panorama?
• Setting up for the shot
• Shooting the source images

8. Alternative Shooting Styles for Panoramic Photography

• Shooting a 360-degree panorama
• Shooting handheld
• Shooting panoramas using an iPhone
• Using Photosynth for panoramic photography
• Using Occipital 360 for panoramic photography

9. Managing Data from a Panoramic Photography Shoot

• Using a card wallet
• Transferring data
• Choosing a working drive

10. Organizing the Images for Post

• Using stacks in Adobe Bridge
• Renaming and renumbering image sequences

11. Developing Panoramic Photographs with Adobe Camera Raw

• 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

12. Assembling Panoramas with Adobe Photoshop

• 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

13. Finalizing Panoramas with Adobe Photoshop

• 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

14. Outputting the Panoramic Photos from Adobe Photoshop

• Should you flatten a panorama?
• Cropping a panoramic photo to a target size and resolution
• Saving panoramas for printing
• Saving panoramas for the web

15. Assembling Panoramas with Adobe Lightroom Classic

• 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

Conclusion

• Goodbye