Panoramic Photos
This week, I experimented with panoramic photography. Tackling the challenge of my dim apartment once again, I first set the white balance using my grey card, then followed Eric's recommendation to take the first shot facing the brightest light source. I quickly realized that the uneven lighting in my apartment was going to cause problems.
After several attempts that resulted in images with severely underexposed sections, I began experimenting with the manual exposure adjustment feature in my camera. Ultimately, I found that +2/3 exposure gave me the best results, though there was still with some areas of under and overexposure. The slow shutter speed necessary for the shot had the side effect of blurring one of my subjects (an effect which I liked, in this case).
Another problems which I was not able to solve, unfortunately, was that the seams are perceptible in several areas, most egregiously around the television. This resulted, I'm guessing, from the relatively proximity of the TV to the camera compared to the other areas of the shot. I tried manually adjusting the seams in Canon's PhotoStitch application, but to no avail. Although this week's image is far from perfect, I learned some useful lessons about panoramas, perhaps most importantly that consistent lighting and greater distance from the subjects will probably make for better shots in the future.
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