I've been working on my Canadian Rockies images and have been very pleased with the panorama shots taken. This is really very easy. My cameras are set up to show the 1/3 viewfinder grid. Basically, the grid looks like tic-tac-toe lines on the viewfinder that divide the view into horizontal and vertical thirds.
All my panos are stitched from hand-held shots, typically shot in in P-mode. With today's advanced software (like Photoshop CS5), auto-mode will work fine, also.
As I move the camera from left to right (you can also do a vertical pano by moving from bottom up) I merely overlap each picture by one-third of the frame. In other words, the right 1/3 of the first picture needs to appear in the left 1/3 of the second picture.
The pictures are then exported to Photoshop CS5. See screenshot below. I always check "vignette removal" and "geometric distortion correction". The other items are pre-selected. Then, click on "OK". You'll need to do a little cropping on the final result, to even up the edges. But that is all there is to it.
Here are several samples of two images panos:
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| From Sulphur Mountain, Banff, Alberta |
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| Bayview, Idaho |
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| Athabasca Glacier from the Columbia Icefields Parkway |
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| From Sulphur Mountain, Banff, Alberta |
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| View of Banff and the Bow River from Sulphur Mountain |
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