Equipment Used: Nikon D750, Tamron 24-70mm & 70-200mm
f2.8 G2 lense, Vanguard Abeo Plus 363CT tripod, Lightroom & Photoshop CC
After getting beautiful images on my previous posts shooting panoramic
images, I knew I had to get to Lake Panorama National Golf Course and set up my
tripod and shoot some panoramics. I captured these on two different evenings
with different cloud conditions.
I used the two Tamron G2 lenses on the D750 and had VR and AF off on
them while they sat on my tripod. I shot some of these panoramic in a portrait orientation
as well. Settings on the camera included aperture of f7.1 or f9 and an ISO
below 200. The self timer was also used. I panned the camera on the tripod and
took multiple angles of the scene.
Using Lightroom, I would select the different angles of the images for
each hole and then allow LR to combine them into a panoramic. Some of these are
5 images stitched together while others are as much as 11 images. After the
panoramic was created, I used my custom presets to process the look of the
image and adjusted basic sliders as well to fine tune those presets.
In Photoshop, I cloned out unwanted objects and blemishes in the image
by using the healing brush and patch tool. These included water hazard stakes,
cart signs, small birds and even divots. Some of these images had shaded areas
in them; I used an exposure adjustment and layer mask to lighten up those
areas. A photo filter was then used to fine tune the color of the grass. The
last step was to crop these images and then if necessary, use the patch tool to
fill in areas that were white after the crop. These white areas were on either
the top or bottom of the image so the patch tool did a great job filling those
in with a realistic looking image.
I’m enjoying shooting these panoramics and editing the large files that
have a ton of detail and sharpness with how wide the image is after stitching
multiple images together. With metal print sizes like 14” x 40” and 20” x 50”
that would match up well to these panoramic images of LPN GC, I’m excited to
continue to experiment and shoot panoramic images.
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