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From Yesterday’s Dawn Shoot

By Scott on Friday, April 13th, 2007 at 5:29 am | Photo Shoots, Photography.

Here’s an 11-photo pano I shot at yesterday’s dawn shoot (It’s the low res version, but you can click on the photo for a larger view). We were hoping for more atmospheric effects (fog), and some clouds, but neither really showed up, so it was just a nice morning to be shooting, minus the really good light. Late yesterday afternoon before our sunset shoot, I showed the class how to set up their cameras for shooting panos, and how to make sure that Photoshop would not only stitch them together perfectly, but blend the colors and edges so it was seamless. The pano shown here stitched together on the first try (using Photoshop CS3’s PhotoMerge). I’ll post a few more later today, but we’re heading out for our dawn shoot now (it’s kinda chilly out there this morning!). Have a great day everybody!

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^#1

Beautiful photo there Scott.
I intend to be travelling over the UK to take part in some of the photography workshops you guys instruct on, in the near future, cos something tells me “I need to be there” :o)

Regards, Glyn

Glyn Dewis on April 13th, 2007 at 10:22 am
^#2

Scott:

For less than ideal situations, you make the shot look pretty spectacular.

Quick question, and possible PSTV tutorial: for this 11 shot merge, do you take a shot and move the camera to the right, take another and move, etc…. for all shots, or do you keep the camera on a tripod, in one spot, and pan to get all shots? The reason I ask, is because when I set up a shot and pan around and merge the shots, it looks curved, even after cropping. Yours looks like one actual wide angle photo. How do you do that without the curved look?

Thanks, Rich

Richard Murray on April 13th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
^#3

Really nice image scott, I actually wish there was a larger one than the one available when you click on the image.

Similar to the comment by scott, is there a tutorial to describe how to get these pano’s perfect so there is minimal messing around with them in photoshop?

Cheers James

James Knight-Smith on April 14th, 2007 at 7:38 am
^#4

hi Scott:
Just love your photography shoots and telling us how u did them.
I have been trying to search your blog about the flower shoot you did. you used a canon close up lens on your nikon lens. I would like to purchase one and cant remember which one it was. thanks so much

Joanne

Joanne Blakey on April 15th, 2007 at 8:15 am
^#5

Hi Scott,

My name is Scott Kelby, Derbyshire, England. Just getting into photographer and find my name is already a big hit when it comes to great pictures. I hope I can do our name justice.

Scott Kelby on April 19th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

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