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Let's dive in and explore the art of panoramic photography together!
I’ll show you why you should take panoramas instead of normal landscape photos.
And before you’d say that capturing panos with multiple photos
requires more effort in post-production, and you'd need special editing software,
let me mention that there more and more apps which can make it for you faster and easier.
Luminar Neo is also has a new Extension for Stitching Panoramas from multiple photos or even a video,
which is a really cool feature.
Among others I’ll show you how it works.
But now, let’s start with some shooting tips, and see all the advantages of shooting panoramas.
When you capture multiple photos and stitch them together to create a panorama,
you end up with a much higher resolution image compared to a single wide-angle shot.
Here you can see the same composition taken with one click in landscape mode
and shot as a panorama, with multiple photos shot in portrait mode.
Wide-angle lenses can sometimes introduce distortion, particularly at the edges of the frame.
By taking multiple photos and stitching them together,
you can minimize this distortion and achieve a more natural-looking panorama.
Especially you can minimize barrel distortion and vignetting.
Panoramas created from multiple photos can cover a wider field of view compared to a single wide-angle shot.
This allows you to capture more of the scene and include elements
that might have been cut out in a single photo.
Stitching together multiple photos allows you to utilize the best parts of each shot,
such as exposure and focus.
This results in an overall improved image quality as compared to relying on a single wide-angle shot
that may have some areas with exposure or focus issues.
Creating a panorama from multiple photos gives you more flexibility in the final composition.
You can crop your image in post, giving you a greater control over the final result.
Panoramas created from multiple shots can provide a greater sense of depth and dimensionality
compared to a single wide-angle image.
This can make the scene appear more immersive and engaging.
And after all, let me show you the latest Extension of Luminar Neo,
which allows us to stitch panoramas with a couple of clicks.
I just import all the photos, and then I select and drop them to the Panorama Stitching window.
Here I can turn on settings like Distortion correction, Devignetting or Chromatic aberration reduction.
It can be useful if you shoot with wider angle lenses or even with fisheye lenses,
but purple and green fringe can be very common shooting against the Sun or with high contrasty parts,
like simply shooting against the sky.
And as many of the panos are taken like this, it can be useful, if we turn this correction on.
And once we set our preferences here, they will always be the same until we change them.
So it is enough to set it once, before we start using this Extension.
Then simply click on Start.
Luminar will make a couple of adjustments, and then it shows you the stitched image.
Here you change the projection mode.
And it is worth looking at all these options, because different alignments may be better in different cases.
This time I select the one which provides straight lines to the buildings near the edge.
Then I Continue with cropping.
Maybe I refine rotation a little bit, crop that huge foreground and set the sides of the images.
Finally, I click on save for processing.
Then my pano will appear in a specific folder, among all the panoramas generated in Luminar.
Switching to the Edit tab I can use any of the Luminar tools, just like it was a normal photo.
I can add more saturation, or even I could change the sky, if needed.
But this time I like it the way I shot.
And let me show you another example with some tricks.
As I’ve already mentioned, shooting a pano can be very useful, if there are some differences in lights,
so you can set the best exposure to each part of the image.
In this case the street with the umbrellas was way darker than the other parts,
so I shot it with different settings.
But as you can see, Luminar blended these photos very well.
This time I also go through the different projection modes and select the best one for me,
click on Continue, Crop the image, and save the pano.
Or I can simply step back, clicking on the back arrow, and modify the framing, if needed.
And now I can edit this image too, playing around with contrast, saturation and whatever.
Even more, I remove some subjects from the photo, selecting and Erasing people.
Until I get a result like this.
If you’re interested about how to remove people or objects from photos,
check out my previous tutorials in this this topic.
But besides creating panoramas traditionally from photos,
Luminar Neo has a very unique feature, also creating them from videos.
It doesn’t matter if we shoot handheld or with a tripod or a gimbal, we can get great panos.
Of course, the less shaking in the video leads to better results.
So, using motorized pano heads or gimbals are the best,
but as I mentioned, it also works even with handheld shots.
I just import my video, just like it was a photo,
and drag and drop it into the Panorama Stitching window, and click on start.
As a first step, I select the starting and ending point of the panning movement, and I click on Continue.
Luminar generates the pano for me , and then everything is the same as in the previous cases:
I can play around with the projection mode and Crop and Save the pano for further editing.
I think it’s a very cool feature.
And if you’re interested in trying Luminar, check out my promo link in the description.
Luminar Neo is available on monthly or annual subscriptions and in lifetime versions, too,
with a 30-day money-back guarantee. So there’s no risk in trying it out.
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