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How to Create Panoramas good enough for Dreamstime posted on 17th of november, 2009

It took me quite a while to get started with uploading panorama images to microstock. The problem wasn't that I didn't have suitable subject matter, but that I didn't know how, and assumed incorrectly that the software available wasn't good enough to produce seamless results.

As with anything, there's a variety of ways of doing this. This is a summary of how I do it:

Camera Settings

1. Set the camera to shoot in "RAW" mode, not jpeg if you don't usually shoot raw.

2. Set the camera to Manual mode "M".

3. Set the ISO to a fixed value (I recommend ISO 100 on all Olympus DSLRs)

4. Set the exposure by adjusting the aperture and shutter speed. Generally for these types of shots I recommend an aperture of around 5.6-6....

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Comments (13)

	I hear very good things about Gimp... its been on my to-do list to try out for quite a while. Pandora and Autopano also use Panotools core which Hugin, and a lot of other open-source panorama software applications use. Thanks for all the comments... I always find it useful to see how other people do the same things I do - quite often I actually learn a lot that way. - posted by Holgs on November 22, 2009
	Really nice:) I use Gimp (with plugin Pandora) usually. It's for free and quite good. Greetings! - posted by Mrcq4 on November 22, 2009
	One thing that caught my eye is the accent of preserving highlights. In fact, digital sensors preserve details much better in over-exposed areas that they do in underexposed ones. This is easy to see if you have access to a raw editing program and play with the exposure compensation settings: when pushing limits, details in dark areas always come out with noise (if they do at all). Your work looks awesome and I do not suggest for a second that you change your current way of creating it. But this bit of info might come handy if you find yourself in a tight spot. Personally, when doing night shots, I pay more attention to the dark areas when shooting and then fix the highlights in post-processing. - posted by M_agullo on November 22, 2009

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