5 Steps to AMAZING Panoramic Pictures

[@b.s.4478]

Best photography channel on youtube, period! The photos are absolutely gorgeous and the humor is spot on! :)

[@jimcrooks143]

Great tip with the hands in the first and last shot......

[@eeanderson49]

Great video! Great info!

[@teamrambocat]

Finally a youtube photography channel with good images in it

[@ScottWilliamsPhotography]

Thank you. This is one of the best KZbin videos I have seen. Loads of great information. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@obroadieswimmer]

Brilliant as always Craig.

[@dougvarvil6435]

Thanks Craig. I really enjoy your videos. Not only do I learn but I also get a chuckle here and there. Keep them coming.

[@e6Vlogs]

Chuckle?! You should be ROFL. I need to work on my jokes!

[@PMCN53]

Great session on the rules of shooting Panoramic images.

[@ChrisSmith-gf3ge]

Great Vlog

[@jonathansadler4911]

Excellent vlog. Never heard about the nodal point until now. Very clear explanation too. Thank you.

[@jimhamilton8775]

Excellent video and well explained Craig.

[@markdayphotography7948]

Very clear and easy to understand explanation of parallax and how to set the lens/nodal slider combination. Thank you.

[@viewthroughthelens]

Vertical panoramas... unique and brilliant..and one of your rare vlogs where you get yourself around to smile !!! ("it is fan time again"). Not being obsessed with sun rises and sun sets (with good reasons) is another trait that sets you apart.

[@e6Vlogs]

Yes, sorry about that. No more smiling from now on!

[@Missbagpipernorthwest]

Thankyou!!!! I did learn some excellent pointers!!!

[@haiyanqu698]

Wow, some amazing pan shots !!

[@derekmidgley]

Fantastic tutorial Craig!

[@kenhenley7599]

Excellent video...very informative and helpful. I will definitely try panoramics.....one day!

[@rosem7606]

just love your humor :))) and your instructions too of course. the nodal point nearly made me avoiding panoramic pictures - until looking at your "hot" vlog... would love to see how you made it on film too!

[@marcgravel3010]

Awesome video. Very inspiring!!!

[@thebostonartist]

Nice work, Craig- thanks for posting.

[@altern8ive]

thank you and great info demonstrating the nodal point

[@Derginator]

Craig is the photography father we all need, change my mind

[@e6Vlogs]

I would prefer older brother!

[@paulknight7789]

Well done for putting up with the heat. Question; when you do a HDR panorama, would you do the HDR first or the panorama? I really liked your vertical panoramas and will be giving that I try. Many thanks.

[@mikecolley1093]

Thanks for another great video

[@kurtfankhauser9805]

Again: brilliant, Craig. Thank you very much

[@paulus0109]

Thnx for the panotips Graig. You showed some nice examples.

[@gman3447]

Yet another great video, And you do make me laugh, Great sense of humour. Keep them coming mate.

[@GlenDomulevicz]

I never tried the pencil alignment. I will now. I know I don't need to do that but It may help at times. Thanks for a great tip.

[@nullx8]

very detailed, i learned alot ... just still kind of stuck with the distortion thing when the object is too close ..

[@nottreb]

Another excellent video Craig, every time I see one of these it reminds me that I should be signing up for an E6 subscription. Note to self for just after pay day before frittering away my meagre wages on non essentials such as ice creams and electric fans SUBSCRIBE ;)

[@e6Vlogs]

Indeed you should Robert. You won't regret it! (Small 'e' by the way!)

[@mladen5016]

Definitely true about Lightroom stitching better than Photoshop!

[@antonoat]

Simply not true.

[@JeniaFabisuk]

Thank you for this great tutorial!

[@yujinlandscapephotography.7787]

I look like for sharing video. Thank, Craig.

[@SidBonkers51]

Im glad that you added that a tripod is not a necessity as Ive shot many hand held panos because as you say there is definitely some sort of magic going on in Photoshop...

[@ThePosiview]

Liked that. Very well presented and narrated. Cheers.

[@paultaylorphotography9499]

Awesome in depth tutorial mate was nice to see the tree at Brimham Rocks been a long time since I've seen it.

[@buyaport]

Great info! 1 tip for those poor guys like me who only use (non-subscription) Lightroom (and Windows). As LR has a pixel limit for stitching (which you already reach when trying to stitch more than two medium format film pictures together): Use good old Microsoft Image Composite Editor (aka ICE). It is FREE and works marvelously on panoramas of any size. Of course also great for those who don't even use LR!

[@bobsyeruncle4841]

nice one thanks

[@davidthomas670]

Very good video Craig thank you.

[@trentgarverick9345]

Thanks! A very informative and entertaining video. I am planning to shoot some panoramic shots in Kauai in October and now feel more confident. Hopefully I can get what I need with my 105 and 24-70 lenses with nodal points calculated for 50 and 70 on the zoom. I hope that the heat did not warp your nodal slide. :)

[@charliethebubbles]

Very interesting video and information, presented in your usual amusing manner. Looks like I may need to buy a Nodal slider. My wife will stop me watching your videos if this goes on.

[@TedPartrick]

Very informative, thanks. One item I sometimes forget is to remove all vignetting left from a lens or, as in my case, an import preset.. Looks weird if left.

[@leanderhoefler7054]

Apart from being very informative and providing valuable knowledge, I also had to laugh at some of the jokes. Great video, Graig!

[@e6Vlogs]

Some?!!! ;-)

[@leanderhoefler7054]

e6 Vlogs Haha, okay admittedly all of them of course!

[@wahabdilawar]

Please make a video tutorial with multiple row and HDR panorama with Brenizer effect. It should be fun for you, your camera and of course...your computer.

[@normanziegelmeyer7693]

Thanks for the great video. I have a question I hope you can answer. I just bought a Pan Head and "L" bracket for my Canon Rebel T3I. I have the arca fitting with a center marking on the pan head. The center of the "L" bracket on the camera is not marked either horizontal or vertical and has a slot for mounting on each side. When mounting it in landscape mode I have no trouble determining the center point because of a mark on the camera over the mounting hole, but when trying to mount it in the Portrait position I don't know how to determine the proper point to put it over the pivot point. Is it critical that it be directly over the pivot point as in landscape mode and if so can you describe a way to determine the point to be centered in the arca fitting on the head it? Thanks

[@pete-r51]

Good info.

[@markjarrett9400]

Great video. When you are shooting a vertical panoramic picture with a nodal slider wont your nodal point move as you tilt the camera up or down. How do you get round this?

[@markharris5771]

Even at your incredibly high standard this was an exceptional video. I’ll be honest, panoramics are something I avoid, though I have thought of buying a Xpan. I was given a camera with a pull string that is supposed to shoot a 360° image but I’m not sure how many frames it uses to do it and I have this thought in my head I will finish off a roll of HP5+ in about 2 seconds. Please can you tell me if you could use a macro slide as a nodal slide? Thank you for posting this video, I found it very inspiring to go out and stop avoiding challenges.

[@euanclouston1841]

Another great video, Thanks. Do you recommend doing 5x5 panoramics to get more pixels on a photo from an old camera. Have you tried it and had any success?

[@gordw6402]

Do you need to find the nodal point when shooting vertical panos...Thank You for putting all this time and effort into these videos.

[@e6Vlogs]

I don't bother when shooting verticals

[@jeetts59]

Very informative. Hot! Here in Darwin, it’s 32c and mid winter.

[@mikesilvephotography]

Hi Craig. Could you share info / links for the two bits of kit you used to make your nodal slider?

[@e6Vlogs]

Hi Mike. Just type 'nodal slider' into Amazon. You''l see all the options come up there.

[@101jumpit]

I use Autopano Pro.I think it just has the edge over Photoshop :) Some of those Nodal Slider thingymajigs are bloody expensive though ! Great Vid Craig as usual :)

[@e6Vlogs]

Mine cost me about £10

[@normanziegelmeyer7693]

Thanks for the great video. I have a question I hope you can answer. I just bought a Pan Head and "L" bracket for my Canon Rebel T3I. I have the arca fitting with a center marking on the pan head. The center of the "L" bracket on the camera is not marked either horizontal or vertical and has a slot for mounting on each side. When mounting it in landscape mode I have no trouble determining the center point because of a mark on the camera over the mounting hole, but when trying to mount it in the Portrait position I don't know how to determine the proper point to put it over the pivot point. Is it critical that it be directly over the pivot point as in landscape mode and if so can you describe a way to determine the point to be centered in the arca fitting on the head it? Thanks

[@janmartinmathiassen6265]

Speaking of stitching together and "doing a better job", I used to think lightroom did a good job of that, but I'm actually starting to think that Microsoft ICE does a much better job of it, and it has the option to export in a silverlight format if your end result is bigger than 32k either direction (which apparently is a format limit as I found out when I did 140kx42k panoramas or whatever it was I ended up with. :P

[@e6Vlogs]

Jan Martin Mathiassen Yes, Microsoft ICE is getting a lot favourable comments on here. I’m gonna have to try it myself!

[@TeddyWandererCamera-Bear]

Thank you for the great tips I will be giving the hand shots a go next time I do a pano :D Teddy ps I hate the heat too :(

[@ieyucel]

You should look fujifilm cameras, for example X-T2, they provide panaromic shooting options both vertical and horizontal.

[@altern8ive]

i found it to be no more consistent than a sony point and shoot i had from several years ago :)

[@ieyucel]

hyprfocal good result is a little bit tricky but viable by hand. I havent any experience with sony.

[@altern8ive]

sony worked 4/10 and so far that's been about the same as my hit rate with the T2, when it works the results are acceptable for social media, not for print

[@justletmesigninokthx]

photoshop does a great job generally , even if you are messy - I often stitch 4 iPhones pics into a larger 4x4 view, works quite nicely

[@rackopablos]

Hi Craig, could you tell me where you purchased your L bracket from please? Cheers!

[@e6Vlogs]

www.reallyrightstuff.com

[@rackopablos]

e6 Vlogs good man! 😁

[@tomduncan3547]

Could be classed as fan-tastic. (Sorry about that) Also I have found that CPL's can give very strange results. For anyone not using the Adobe programs, me for one cannot afford them, their are very good free stitching programs or Affinity photo is great.

[@tyik]

Thank you Craig for sharing this valuable post. I use LR 5.7. This version does not read latest Olympus RAW files like OM1 MII. How do you work around it without converting to dng file?

[@e6Vlogs]

Upgrade!

[@Rob_van_der_Linden]

step 1b :-) get a shift lens, and a free tip: not all software generate the same result, I've had (pre-shift lens) handheld panoramic images that didn't merge in the big Photoshop, but Photoshop Elements did a fine job, or even ICE, and visa versa.

[@e6Vlogs]

Indeed a shift lens is a good option and I used to do this when shooting with Canon. An expensive option though!

[@Rob_van_der_Linden]

They can be expensive indeed, I got mine refurbished by Nikon for less than a 2nd hand though, of course I don't know why it was refurbished, but as far as lenses go it was my best lens purchase yet :-)

[@rawdahamad9248]

👌🏻

[@craig_m_mi]

LIAR..... ;-) I clicked on this video because you posted this video and I watch all your videos because they are not only educational and informational, they have some fun and laughs in them too.

[@runninblue9415]

Great thanks. Raw, process, then merge before or after converting to jpg? Never done it. Can you tell?

[@e6Vlogs]

Either, but I convert to Tiff, then merge.

[@wahabdilawar]

Why does my panoramics always have the "stitch lines", when I stitch them in Photoshop and they are fine in Lightroom?

[@MrDazza64]

Excellent video Craig, you’re a lot cleverer than you look! 😆 Best regards, Dazza 🇬🇧

[@e6Vlogs]

Thankyou Dazza...I think!

[@MileyonDisney]

I feel sorry for my grandchildren, growing up with central air - unlike when I was a kid and we had no air conditioning. They'll never know the fun of talking through a fan and hearing the vibrato it creates.

[@rotvonrat]

you doesn't even need to have the camera in manual mode, most of the time