Jazz Game Panorama with a Digital Elph
I fell into some free tickets to last night's Utah Jazz game versus the San Antonio Spurs (thanks Shawn & Wes). Apart from the camera on my Android phone, the only one I had with me was my little red Digital Elph (Canon SD780). During the game I was playing around with the camera and decided to shoot some images to later stitch together as a panorama.
For the image featured today, I quickly captured three shots of the arena from my upper bowl seat. I didn't do anything special to line them up, just simply shot them handheld. The camera was set on Program mode. To stitch them I selected the three captures in Lightroom and selected "Merge to Panorama in Photoshop". That was it, apart from some selective dodge/burn and a final crop.
This is the first time I have used Photoshop's panorama function since CS2. I've got to say that I'm impressed with how well it worked. Considering the limitations of the lighting and camera, the image quality isn't too bad. I'm going to have to put together a "real" panorama with my 5D Mark II sometime and see the feature's true capability.
To view the full-resolution version of the image, click here.
Canon Powershot SD780IS - 1/40 second, f/3.2, ISO 200
3 Comments:
Photoshop's panorama stitching isn't that bad, but I've found an app on the Mac that allows for much more sophisticated panoramas and more configurability. It's got a bit of a steep learning curve, but it's called Hugin. It's pretty cross-platform, so there should be a way to get it running for a Windows user too. ;)
Photoshop's pano feature made a huge jump with CS3, then again in CS4, now that it has the option for geometric correction and vignette removal. I have to say, it produces consistently good results, even with hand-held shots.
I like this photo! Growing up we were poor, we normally sat way up there in the nose bleed section so it brings back memories of going to the Jazz games with my dad! Thanks!!
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