Panorama Landscape Photography At It's Finest

[@ember_notes]

We need more Hardcastle Towers! The church is looking GREAT!

[@danielcherry3748]

Yes please!

[@westvirginianlivin9871]

Totally agreed.

[@RickMentore]

Sponsored videos are fine, as long as you declared said videos are paid for and you give an honest opinion! Your videos are adventurous, educational and humorous, you deserve to be paid for your efforts!

[@KirkDurstonquest]

You were being very modest when you described the pano of your house as beautiful. The composition brought me to tears. I would say it is not only the crown jewel of your career, but it is a feat that will inspire landscape photographers for centuries to come.

[@kirstymcleod6647]

still waiting for the next instalment of Hardcastle Towers.... 👀

[@zeballos5757]

Amanda is very helpful in her cameo appearances 😆

[@DavidSorensenPlus]

Most tutorial video’s I can’t watch to the end. They get soooo boring, and waaaay to technical, and you need to watch them fifty times to remember it all. This one is straight to the point, without the boring stuff, and even adds some brilliant humor. Luminar can be happy!

[@gabeevans88]

The single hair on the pop filter was the star of the show! 🤣

[@mauriciolee7349]

Thank fototripper for being HONEST by disclosing this is a sponsored video. I love it when you demonstrate Luminar Neo panorama stitching is better than Photoshop.

[@richcower]

That was good, nice piece of software. Get a hose up on that roof and you could have included one of your waterfall photos.

[@JohnnyMotel99]

I see you have so many good things in Nova Scotia, awesome landscapes, a gorgeous house, a beautiful wife....and a swarm of mozzies

[@FAMUCHOLLY]

Demonstrating how to shoot a panno while feeding the mosquitos... real talent!😅

[@rolandrick]

Can’t wait until that HT project is finally finished. 🤩

[@brad_in_yyc]

Oh man, I'm so glad you showed Hardcastle Towers for the pano shot. Because I went and shot a waterfall near Abraham Lake this weekend and almost thought, "Boy would Gavin love this shot. It's too bad he's not here." And you've, thankfully made it so I don't feel guilty for shooting it because you loved shooting the church so much. Thanks Gavin! 😊

[@PhotoTrekr]

When Photoshop went to a subscription based model, I went to Capture One and Luminar. Most of the time I use Luminar Neo now.

[@chrisjames1924]

I pay £8 a month for Capture One Fuji. It's a bargain!

[@rolandrick]

Hi Gavin just as hint, use Lr or ACR for stitching, not Ps, you’ll get by far the better results. You also can use directly use the raw files and get as result a stitched DNG containing all RAW information, you can edit it like a raw.

[@samwilson4012]

Great video as always Gavin - one of your most exotic locations ever! Thank you for always being so authentic and honest with your reviews and sponsorships. I personally don't have a problem with you doing sponsored stuff as you are trying to make an income out of this - I'm sure my comment doesn't really matter but thought I'd share my 2 cents worth anyway

[@jpdj2715]

You could do the shooting a lot better. If you look at your panning rotation in the video, then you may see that the angular speed of rotation in the image in the foreground is different than in the background. This is caused by not rotating the camera-lens combination in the so-called "nodal point" of the lens. You need one simple accessory to be able to fix that and a simple procedure to find the nodal point of your lens. The accessory. It seems you have an Arca Swiss compatible L-bracket on the camera and the matching Arca Swiss compatible quick release on the tripod head. You only need one extra piece of kit: a nodal slide. With this slide or rail between the ball head and the camera, you can slide the camera fore and aft and with that you can set the nodal point precisely over the rotating point in the ball head. I presume you have a ball head on your tripod that has a rotating top plate. If not, you need more. The procedure to find the nodal point. You need two thin sticks for this. I would use two studio light stands for it. Place one of these near the camera and the other one a couple meters farther away. Make sure the farthest one is out of sight in the camera because the nearest one covers its view. Now when you rotate the camera and the two sticks become independently visible, you are not rotating in the nodal point. Use the nodal rail to find the nodal point now. The farthest must not become visible in rotating the camera/lens. Make sure to document the numeric markings with that specific lens. Modern lenses may have floating (zoom) elements and internal focusing (floating elements too) and it is good to verify that the nodal point is, or isn't, the same for each focal length and focusing distance. (Note that a "prime" that has no focus breathing is a zoom lens.) What's the point? A better alignment in the foreground that makes for easier stitching. You have a fast workstation in the 98th performance percentile, like I have and don't care about faster or whatever, as the software solves the problem very fast. Well, the software needs to figure loads of details out of how to correct foreground mismatches and there's no guarantees that it will work out fine. Preventing at shoot time is better than fixing in post.

[@fototripper]

The last thing I'm carrying up mountains is extra gear like a nodal point attachment. Unless Brent brings his...

[@DanielKennedyaeos]

I agree with @jpdj2715 I use a very lightweight nodal slide with markings on it for my different lens's exit pupils. I also used to use a nodal ninja. It eliminates 90% of all artifacts or failed stitches. I'd say it's almost essential for multi-row where there's a risk of parallax.

[@jpdj2715]

@@DanielKennedyaeos - thank you. A single nodal slide is extremely light indeed. For multi-row I have a 3D head that allows bringing the camera in the nodal point both horizontally and vertically. That thing is not very heavy but has some serious heft. The best thing I did in the process of adding this gear, is to replace the Manfrotto proprietary quick release from my magnesium ball head by a panorama disk with Arca coupling so as to get panning on top of the ball head, where we need it, rather than at the bottom of the head. The weight I save with the Mg ball head is more than the nodal slide adds.

[@fototripper]

Maybe I'll get one and do a video comparison of the results vs without.@@jpdj2715

[@DavesEpicPhoneShots]

Nice instructional video 👍 I always appreciate the jokes and shenanigans as well. Makes for a really fun experience.

[@peterfritzphoto]

You had me at 'Bum Butter'.

[@stephenpartridge686]

I do panoramas all the time, I find a simple nodal point bracket makes all the difference, if you just use the ball head it will make it more difficult to get a good pano due to the "swing" of the front of the lens!!! Interesting video like always!!

[@stephenpartridge686]

I made my own from a piece of flat aluminium bar and a couple of cheap ebay parts, fits in my pocket and makes the world of difference!!!

[@benruset]

Nice to see Jason, Chris, and myself all had a little cameo in this video. I could have used this trying to stitch the panos I took when I was up there.

[@peterwu8471]

I these less-then-joyful times, I love your channel. Something good.

[@mondohand71]

Really dig the windows on your church. Nice vid G man. 🙌🏽

[@jeffreywatson396]

A great video as always! Tom H had some good tips on panos as well 😊

[@andrewlloyd-seetim1271]

I think that the photoshop version of the pano of Hardcastle Towers is really a representation of the future state of the church post renovation. Get to work on adding that amazing and unique feature 👍

[@steffore1]

This weeks was great and I like Neo 👍🏽

[@robj1366]

Another very entertaining and educational video, thanks.👍

[@Supergoldfish101]

Could you try to merge these samples in Lightroom? From what I read, it's not the same as PS.

[@rolandrickphotography]

Hi Gavin just as hint, use Lr or ACR for stitching, not Ps, you’ll get by far the better results. You also can use directly use the raw files and get as result a stitched DNG containing all RAW information, you can edit it like a raw. The longer the lens the better the results. Works also perfect with wide lenses, because of their distortion you need to take sufficient shots and stitch in cylindrical or spherical mode. „The“ stitching tool is PTgui Pro. Nothing can compete. Honestly, that plug in looks like they collaborated with PTgui and integrated it. But that’s just wild guessing.

[@felicityrostron9406]

Aounds like a good program. The renos look like they are progressing, would love to see a walk through

[@mark2shooter]

I think that stitching the RAW files in Adobe Camera RAW works very well for me. And you get a stitched RAW file instead. Better than the PS app/program. Have you tried?

[@DennisBater]

I use Camera Raw with excellent results! Like Brent Henderson, I use a combo Pano setup with no problems. Luminar Neo is just another monthly payment I don't need! I love your videos but I don't think you sounded totally convinced either! 😇

[@mothra10]

Love your cat.

[@mikenorton2727]

Hi Gavin and Amanda, Hope you save the old roof top with picket fence-Historical ??? Maybe a future out house. Could save the picket bits.

[@chrisburnard5157]

Something different, still great content and learning. Thank you.

[@daveabernathey]

Are you doing panos because you miss Brent as much as us? 😂😢

[@clivewoolley4492]

Another lesson learned thanks guys by the way I like what you've done inside the church, any chance of Hardcastle Towers update.

[@wendynewing8834]

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you so much. I will definitely be using the link below!

[@JeffWeymier]

Great video Gavin. I just go Luminar Neo a couple weeks ago and love it.

[@larrysalaets7088]

Wonderful tool, thanks for the demonstration! On a side note or two, have you removed the cat hair from your mic? And ... did that mosquito get you? 😁

[@refsvik]

Been stitching panos with PTGui for a couple of decades, but thanks for the tip. Keep up the good work❤

[@fototripper]

Thanks man but how are you seeing an unlisted video that I haven't even checked yet?

[@refsvik]

@@fototripper Hi Gavin. I have been binging your videos for about a week now(fantastic library of amazing humor by the way), and it briefly showed up last night on my ipad while browsing for old videos of yours to watch. Seems to be gone now. Sorry for intruding.

[@michaelmckeag960]

I scanned the comments wondering if anyone was going to mention PTGui; not until I entered the time reversal zone. If it’s a straightforward pano I will stitch with Lightroom. If Lightroom fails I may pass the task to Photoshop, but for serious pano processing PTGui succeeds where others fail. Judging from the demo Luminar Neo pano stitching may be more robust than Photoshop, but not in the same league as PTGui.

[@brettpatching]

Thanks for this Gavin. It started me on a trial of this and other apps and was most impressed with PTGui.

[@mikepenney5726]

autopano is the way to go...

[@ashstubbings2603]

Gavin, I'll be honest with you, I normally watch your channel mainly for the entertainment value, (and of course the trezmendous photography!) But this time, I was genuinely interested in your teaching and instruction. You're quite knowledgeable about the 'ere photography lark aren't you? LOL 🤣🤣😉😉

[@michaelj.1121]

Nice job on the Pano - did you ever check out Microsoft’s free „ICE“ ? JPG but user interface looks quite like what you showed. If Adobe fails ICE has usually succeeded for me.

[@spazoq]

PTgui is the Cadillac of Panorama stitching software.

[@playoflightphotographicsllc]

Hmm, will have to give it a try. I've been using PTGui with perfect results, but the UI is a little clunky.

[@GaryStockton]

Hey Gav you ask them to "Get in touch... " often enough, surprised you are not getting more sponsors + you just gave RODE a free promo for the whole video.

[@fototripper]

They didn't get in touch :(

[@GaryStockton]

Well they should have Gavin. Very impressed with your progress on your home. @@fototripper

[@briansorrells8126]

Excellent video and information! I enjoy tinkering around with the Luminar program and for me, there are some basic tools/functions in it that work much better than Photoshop. Fix, export, finish.

[@junerobinson8169]

Great video, very informative have learnt a lot tonight Your Hardcastle Tower is coming on, keep up the good work you will finish it soon, I’m sure, well another year perhaps 😂😂.

[@composedlight6850]

The serious Gavin in full flow --- must have needed to sit down for a long rest in a dark room, after producing this vlog.

[@HeathenHammer123]

We need more hardcastle towers vids. And great. Now I have to spend more money on this program lol

[@rolandrick]

Hi Gavin just as hint, use Lr or ACR for stitching, you’ll get by far the better results as in Ps.

[@fototripper]

I believe ACR is used when launching Photomerge from Bridge as shown in the video.

[@spidersj12]

What gauge needle and thread do you use for your stitching? 😏 I use ON1 PhotoRAW but you do need a minimum of the photos with at least 30% overlap. 50% overlap tends to work better for the algorithm. I like ON1 for the most part, but Topaz Denoise AI do does a better job than the NoNoise AI in ON1.

[@rongallacher8216]

Hi Gavin , just watching this video. How come you removed that nice good of the church ? It looks great , anything wrong with it ? This is a great video. 👌👌👌👌

[@rayspencer5025]

I quit Photoshop years ago due to the high cost/subscription nonsense, and the clutter of all the stuff I didn't ever need. I had been using Paintshop Pro since the old days, and still do. I have been also using Luminar for almost 2 years. And yes there is coming an A.I. fill tool in Luminar. I expect it any day now.

[@richardsmith5021]

This looks really interesting. The results look really great. I've shot panos in landscape and stitched them together in LR and haven't been overly excited with the results. Besides the obvious advantage of using Luminar Neo that you demo'd Is there an advantage to shooting panos in portrait mode vs landscape mode?

[@fototripper]

It depends on the composition you're after. Shooting in Portrait often allows for a bigger frame and allows you to capitalize on pleasing lens distortion for certain subjects like mountains.

[@Mr1Spring]

Hi Gavin, Have you heard about nodal sliders? I use one (RRS mpr-cl 11 C) with wide angle lenses. There are also way cheaper ones out there.

[@fototripper]

Gerrin terch

[@Mr1Spring]

???@@fototripper

[@geekinthegarden3927]

It appears that Gavin has either had a stroke, or sneezed and accidentally head butted his keyboard or is halucinating about metal worms in Gnomish.

[@simon_dentremont]

I first read this as «…hear about moral sliders», which I thought mean there was a slider adjustment in Luminar to adjust Gavins morals. But, alas, I’m not sure even Luminar’s powerful algorithms could fix that.

[@fototripper]

It depends on the scale...@@simon_dentremont

[@DamonMoritz]

You have me in stitches

[@kairoarolsen1255]

We know that you have to advertise to live, and this was perhaps the most "visible". But we believe you have enough integrity to go for products you can stand for. In any case, we follow you and love what you do. By the way, how is the renovation going? Sorry for the bad English, but hope you understand.

[@horstschoninger1265]

🎯 This is the way to go..

[@freedomslight9580]

It seems like you don't need to have one. But I'm curious what would happen if you have a piece of kit like an actual pano/nodal head for your tripod combined with this program?

[@fototripper]

Sounds like a future video...

[@daviddyephotography]

nodal rail is usually unnecessary unless you are doing complex multi layer panos. the lens size widw vs tele has the biggest impact along with being level. parallax really only crops up with multi layer panos

[@DennisBater]

@@daviddyephotography a nodel rail is very useful if you have foreground objects and using wide angle lenses. I use the same setup as Brent Henderson and it works great!

[@daviddyephotography]

exactly, depends oon how wide angle and vertical panning amount with closer subjects or horizontal movement with wider lenses and before the nodal rail can be effective you must test it with each lens to deternine the correct location on the rail that will eliminate your paralax@@DennisBater

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

Do you ever use Lightroom's pano function? It gives you 3 profile choices in preview. It also gives the option of either auto-cropping, cropping with a smart autofill, or no crop. I've actually never used the Photoshop pano tool and I likely won't after this review. Also: you're way overdue for another episode of Hardcastle Towers!

[@millymucci]

bumbutter🤣🤣❤

[@w0lfyovi294]

There's one tool that's even better than an active stylus: Trackball mouse (I use the Logitech MX Ergo), because you use your thumb instead of your entire hand to move the cursor and the model I mentioned has a side button called Precision where it turns down the speed of the pointer where you can make the finest and tiniest of adjustments. Since I got that mouse (it was a very difficult week of getting used to navigating with it) I stopped using my active stylus from my laptop and now it works brilliantly with a Mac Mini as well. I can't live without my trackball mouse now and wish I had used it sooner.

[@fototripper]

Is there a link?

[@tracyrobertson565]

So they do get in touch!!!

[@davidbodine6465]

That’s wierd I was just signing up for luminar before I watched this

[@duringthemeanwhilst]

very interesting. i like a nice pano so this excites me :-)

[@lokispec]

Love it thanks brother. Did you make it to Letchworth?

[@fototripper]

Not yet!

[@roderickwho1983]

Even the pano of the arse end of your gaf has a certain beauty to it. I guess you just can't stop yourself making great photographs. :-) Thanks Gavin. Oh, and what's the deal with that Bum Butter ? Em, I'm asking for a friend.

[@fototripper]

heheh

[@martin6333]

Wow, so MUCH symbology in your caption picture...... Don't know where to begin :)

[@chirsd666]

Neo seems to do a better job of pano stitching. But I was really hoping to see it eliminate curved horizontal lines (like the gutters) in architectural shots. No pano software does that yet, but I will gladly part ways with my cash when someone comes out with a software that does that.

[@fototripper]

to be fair, my gutters are actually curved.

[@RaySweeting]

Hay noted you don't use the nodal point method Mr Hardcastle

[@fototripper]

of course not.

[@andresgonzalezcerda7635]

And results are the same? ( without nodal point ?)

[@petergibson762]

Quick question. Would using lens correction in your raw processing program and then exporting to Tiff prior to stitching help with the horizon issue?

[@fototripper]

That's what I did.

[@petergibson762]

@@fototripper thanks.....I thought you might have. Certainly enjoy your videos and tips....especially the great food combinations that you and Amanda create :)

[@DavidinEssexUK]

But how does neo compare to lightrooms stitching?

[@terryambrose6260]

The thing is, I don’t recall you saying anything about the waterfall shot was a pano. For us real dummies, that would be helpful to see at the time

[@hepontour]

Got an idea....Your not allowed to use your dslr for a week...but instead use your phone/camera to make amazing shots(as is the norm) ?

[@rory_odonnell]

What breed is the Cat?

[@fototripper]

just a random unwanted that I love

[@rory_odonnell]

@@fototripper your fluffy friend needs featured. So cool! Definitely going to try that new prog for panos as lightroom doesn't do a great job on my Drone panos.

[@galensinkey]

I was hoping for more amanda 🤷‍♂

[@galensinkey]

butt it was a pretty good video.

[@terryroberts910]

You seen Grumpton's latest vid?? 😆

[@T.M.G2014]

ok pro camera pro lens ...... some of us are poor, you remember poor being from Yorkshire lol well why don't you do a video and get the same amazing shots on a low grade camera and kit lens or similar ,,, just for us little folk who hit that like button just for you ..............budget 500-800 quid like a canon 7dmk2 or a6000 ,Nikon d800 something that beginners can pick up easily without selling a kidney lol love your videos keep them coming :)

[@zavvas1]

link doesn't work

[@fototripper]

Which one?

[@bradpeck1901]

that is at least (hand out) 19.95

[@DeeB1345]

These people are so bent over this video lol. Who gives a shit? It’s entertainment mixed with a little knowledge transfer at the end of the day.

[@dasarpan007]

Lol just merge in camera raw instead of photomerge in photoshop

[@MSmith-Photography]

Yeah. Waterfalls are so boring! 🤣

[@karlgunterwunsch1950]

I hope Skylum pays you enough to play a shill for their poor software... It's a wonder that they are still getting enough money in to pay people like you... My respect for you just was completely eradicated.

[@fototripper]

I'm not sure how I'll sleep tonight.

[@neilt]

So someone *finally* got in touch 🤣🤣🤣

[@kenpowell3558]

Hardcastle towers has come on a lot and looking good since your last video

[@fototripper]

hahah. I know. I'll get a video out as soon as I can

[@JasonLorette]

Not ever getting sick of waterfalls...we need a new Hardcastle Towers episode! Luminar Neo is interesting for sure!

[@OldGirlPhotography]

Really nice to see the pros using something other than the Adobe suite (and being impressed!). And absolutely love the final grand landscape - great to see the progress. Also impressed that you wee perfectly level with every shot - annoyingly hard to do with a ballhead. Looking forward to the play by play on Hardcastle Towers.

[@rdkevin7729]

You should have had your wife glaring at you through a window.

[@robertstonephoto]

There's another difference... the roof and edge lines using Luminar are curved while these lines in PS are still rectilinear. The two made different choices as to what distortions were 'acceptable'. PS would do a better job with more frames (with over 50% overlap), probably Luminar would too. Thanks for the interesting comparison!

[@PlugInGuruVideo]

Generative fill could have filled the blanks maybe better - you know about generative fill? A.I. ? Artificial Icebergs, right? 😅😅😅

[@karlgunterwunsch1950]

Every other pano software can do better than the poor results yielded by Skylum Neo. As usual - much hullaballo about nothing with them. This clearly screams paid shill to me...

[@nickellion3657]

Another great vid. Laughed my ass off especially in the shooting section of your home. For the record I'm never tired of your waterfall shots.

[@rolandrickphotography]

Hi Gavin just as hint, use Lr or ACR for stitching, not Ps, you’ll get by far the better results. You also can use directly use the raw files and get as result a stitched DNG containing all RAW information, you can edit it like a raw.

[@ian-robinson]

Skylum shafted the pre order people. Bought Neo a while back ( I use it now and again). What they failed to tell people was that they would release new features as extensions that you need to pay for. I see now they do a subscription model as opposed to the software ownership model that the pre orders had. Slightly deceptive way of doing business. Trust went out the window with this company a long time ago. Good software though.

[@Kevin_Barr]

They made a lot of promises that seemed to be half filled. Got tired of dishing out for the latest that was never the greatest.

[@kaneclements7761]

That was really impressive. Hardcastle Towers looks like it is coming along nicely. An update episode would be great.

[@roscot40]

“Bobby dazzler…”😂😂 Not heard that in years. Great video as always and looking forward to a roof video on the Hardcastle Towers channel…

[@arcticshots2321]

I always use LR for stitching, never PS, would be interesting to compare Luminar with that.

[@drewarmstrong4325]

Lightroom can stitch a lot of things. Photoshop can do even more. PT Gui is the grand master. I have Luminar Neo and am workling on learning that one as well. Not working on a pano I am trying to do that could not be stitched by Photoshop. Have not tried PTGuiPro yet. That one is a pain so I only use it in an emergency...