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If you love lots of fine detail in your photos, then you simply have to try multi-row panoramas. Essentially, the technique involves shooting the scene in a series of overlapping segments just as you would with a regular panorama. But instead of a single row you do several rows to create an entire grid of photos. The longer the lens and the wider the grid, the more resolution you can achieve. The individual images are stitched together in Adobe Photoshop CC or a pano stitcher like PTGui. This can give you an astonishing level of detail and allows you to make a huge print or a wall mural.
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We’ll begin here by looking at the basics of multi-row panoramas, from camera settings to shooting technique. The fundamentals are simple, but it gets more advanced depending on what you’re shooting. Essentially, if you decide to include objects that are close to the camera then things can get more complicated, as you have to account for parallax when rotating and tilting the camera, which can lead to misalignment between frames.
As such, we’ll delve into parallax correction and nodal points over the page. But if you’re shooting a relatively distant scene like the Swiss village of Spiez here, then parallax has minimal effect, which makes the technique a little easier as there’s no need to find the optical centre of the lens, you can just stick the camera on a tripod and eyeball it.
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