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So I'm going to do a really nice simple one for you guys today I've just got my
50mm lens on a Canon 5D Mark 3 and I'm here at my home town of St Peter Port
this lovely harbour scene with the seafront and all these layers and
terraces of buildings going up there and this time of year is great because it's
early dark basically it's now 4:30 p.m. Sun has already set and by 5 o'clock
it's going to be Twilight and with it being winter people are still at work at
5 p.m. and it's dark so that means all the lights are going to be on and most
of those buildings which obviously wouldn't happen in the summertime at
night because it wouldn't wouldn't be dark till 10 p.m. and everyone would
have gone home so I'm hopefully gonna catch a twilight scene with the seafront
illuminated and I'm going to do that very simply without any filters anything
like that necessary because I don't have a really bright sky to deal with or
contend with that I need to darken down so I'm just going to take a picture of
that sea front on the self-timer but the extra little trick that I'm going to do
is rather than shoot it on a wide angle I'm going to shoot it on three panoramic
shots so I've already just leveled my tripod up using the spirit level to make
sure everything's level and then I'm going to take a shot here here here here
here maybe three to five shots overlapping each one that will give me a
higher resolution image because I'll be able to join those images together so
instead of just a twenty two megapixel maybe like a twenty two or twenty to
twenty two so it will be something more like an 80 megapixel image that I end up
with us a nice panoramic shot of this seafront at Twilight so just gonna run
some test shots let's see how it goes
okay so we've got our series of panoramic shots when they're not
panoramic yet they're individual shots remember we shot them with about a 30%
overlap which is about right for creating a panorama and what I'm going
to show you is I'm just going to show you two really quick easy methods to put
those together one in Lightroom and one in Photoshop now the one in Lightroom I
use Lightroom classic the one in Lightroom couldn't be easier there's my
five files that I'm going to use for this panoramic I've kept a different
five files for the Photoshop version here you can see zooming in seeing all
the little building lights and everything going on there
let's click there is the first shot the second shot third one the fourth one and
then the fifth one now all I need to do to create a panorama is to select all of
the shots and then right click and then from right click say photo merge
panorama now that'll put that together looks like it already
has given me a preview there I can choose spherical cylindrical perspective
auto crop can also put fill edges on as well that's if sometimes when it builds
a panorama it leaves some parts in white that didn't quite have enough area to
fill in the latest version of Lightroom it'll fill those edges for you so I just
click merge and then we wait for it to finish processing on that see it says
creating panorama at the top left there
and there we go panorama is finished then we just click
on it and you can see there is the panorama with all that wonderful detail
captured in there I'm just going to export that file because there's a few
extra things I want to do to it in Photoshop and we'll also look at the
other way of creating the panorama in Photoshop with the other files so here
is the panoramic that we just created in Lightroom let's zoom in take a look at
that look at all that beautiful detail and and you're basically increasing the
megapixels of your camera when you're creating panarin
and Lightroom and Photoshop both use the same engine so he can both create these
great panoramic so you see how amazingly it does it there's so much detail in
there and there's not one error that I can spot that's been created in that
panorama we've got all that beautiful lovely Twilight lighting with all the
the house and the building lights on there over some peter port harbor now
there's a couple of little issues with this shot the first one is there's a few
blobs of dust on my sensor so i'm just going to use the clone stamp tool that's
just sampled from here let's just remove that blob of dust okay let's move that
out of the way let's just clone stamp that blob of dust out of there as well
and it repeats over here and then if i look at the shot we've got these three
posts sticking up at the bottom there that i didn't want in the shot but
nothing I can do about it I'm just going to use the crop tool to crop this into
more of a panorama I don't want all that stuff on the far right hand side there
it's not really necessary probably going to crop that out and I'm going to crop a
little bit of the left-hand side out as well to about there to frame up the shot
a little bit better so that's more of the panorama that I was expecting and
then again we can just use the clone stamp tool and then we can just clone
that out there really quickly I could probably do a little bit of a better job
on this if I was going to pay a little bit more attention to this but let's
just do this as it is at the moment just to get rid of this nice and quickly but
a bit of a repeat pattern there we could have also used the patch tool would have
been a good one so I'm just going to sample in there I'm only doing this very
roughly because we're in a just want to show you more quickly what this is going
to look like right so there we have a lovely panorama beautiful detail now we
can enhance that detail a tiny bit more I'm just going to go into filter sharpen
unsharp mask and I'm just going to have a look at a
hundred percent with half a pixel sharpen so in the preview there we go
you can see half a pixel sharpen put one pixel sharpen on on and off there you go
that's with it on looks like it could benefit from a one pixel sharp and so
I'll say okay and there with a one pixel sharpen you can see we've got that
really large image now let's check the image size and the image size you see
13,000 pixels wide my Hasselblad h6 100 megapixel is about eleven thousand eight
hundred so this image is wider than my 100 megapixel Hasselblad turns out which
is what you get from using the blending method of overlapping panoramas and
creating panoramic images so I think you'll see there a really nice result
that's been achieved very very simply and you saw how easy it was to capture
let's just take a quick look now in Photoshop how you would do that in
Photoshop as well so these are the other set of images that we captured because I
did it twice now in Photoshop I just need to go into file automate and then
photo merge and then I browse to choose the files actually I browse to choose
the files but I'm going to choose the folder that the files are in browse find
the panorama Tiff's there they are say open they're in there now I'm going to
say vignette removal geometric distortion correction auto on the layout
just say okay and then let's let Photoshop build that panorama for us and
there we go Photoshop has built the panorama you can
see those white edges that I was talking about that you get which we'd have to
crop into now in this shot it's a little bit different cuz the rain started to
come in and you can see all this mistiness that we've got where with the
rain coming down but I quite liked it so I thought it'd be interesting to include
this one as compare as as well let me just crop out that excess
stuff that we don't need they're obviously in Lightroom it filled that in
for us remember but crop a little bit more off off the edges as well let's
crop that into there on this one let's crop that one into there looks like we
need a tiny bit of contrast adjustment so you can see there as well looking
Photoshop it's kept the layers with the layer mask because of each section so
you can work through the files and the layers if you want to bring back a
little bit from one shot all the other I'm just going to grab hold of the
curves adjustment here and pull up the highlight ends pull down the mid-tones a
little bit just to add a little bit more punch and contrast in that and so
there's the one with the rain coming in let's get the other one that we just
created in Lightroom and there's the one that we create in Lightroom before the
rain came in let's take a look at the two so you can obviously see that
turbidity and mist on the second one but I quite like it it's got a bit of
atmosphere but you can see how simple it was to create both of those one created
in Lightroom one creating photoshop and the photography techniques couldn't
really be any simpler hope you enjoyed that I'm Carl Taylor we'll see you next
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