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Multi-picture Composites, Part 2
By sirsnapalot | July 25, 2009
Continuing on the multiple-picture composite scheme, here’s a shot I took in Buenos Aires in March.
Buenos Aires
It was a fairly simple one in composition. Being in the middle of a downtown can make it difficult to give one a sense of the city. Taking multiple shots to simulate a very wide-angle lens, and stitching them together, is a useful tool.
This shot consisted of 8 shots- 4 up the building on the left, a center one below, and 3 more up the right building. When we got home, I dumped them into Photoshop and applied Photomerge to get this result.
To show you a “behind the scenes” shot, here is the image that Photomerge generated first. I have highlighted how each of the 8 shots were used. What surprised me here was that only 6 of the 8 were actually utilized. That’s fine- you’d rather have a little too much overlap than not enough and have a gap.
Buenos Aires
Basically, it only used 3 of my shots for the left building and 2 of them for the right, plus the center ground shot. The composite shot is a little rough on the edges, so you just need to then merge the layers and clean up the edges a bit for a cleaner-looking final shot.
Depending on how you organized your shots when you took them, the perspective correction can take a linear or curved appearance, as seen in the previous post, Part 1, on this thread.
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