Panorama in leeds

any comments?

I think there are two things that might help improve your pano - use perspective correction to make the buildings on either side upright. The tops of those bulidings are cut off, try making your pano with the camera up right - you will need more shots, but it will give you a more balance picture - and its cheaper than buying a wider angle lens! Cheers, RickDB

Thanks Rick, not sure how i go about the perspective correction, but will try the upright shooting to see if it helps the tops of the end buildings were in the originals but had to crop to get a square pic

Si

In PS select EDIT, TRANSFORM, PERSPECTIVE (you need to use an unlocked layer to access TRANSFORM). Your picture will now have transform controls in the corners and middle of each side. Drag the top right hand corner outwards and the verticals will start come upright. You may have to play around with the adjustments using the middle top control too, but using the pull out rulers as a guide you can quickly set everything right.

 

The reason you need to make these adjustments is because your camera was not level, in this case it was tilted back a little to include the tops of the buildings. The rule of thumb is to have the horizon line pass throught the center of the frame. If you do that, you won't have to make any perspective adjustments either.

 

Keep posting those portraits! Cheers, RickDB (Leeds University 1969)