Ben Starav

Ben Starav, originally uploaded by jamesburden.

I’ve finally begun to work on some panoramic shots that I’ve taken over the past few years. I don’t own a panoramic format camera, so I’m limited to either cropping a single photo to a panoramic crop, or to taking a series of separate photos and then combining them. Recent panoramic shots I’ve posted have been panoramic crops. I think these can work well, but it’s not my preferred option. My preference is to take several separate exposures and stitch and blend. However, I have struggled to find a decent piece of software that can make a good job of this.

It’s not perfect, and it’s certainly not cheap, but Photoshop CS4 is, in my most humble opinion, the best software on the market to accomplish this. You still have to work as some of the blending, and sometimes it doesn’t know which photos to stitch together, but it does do a very good job.

This is my first – more to follow. Sorry they’re somewhat from the archives. I’ve been sitting on these for a long time waiting for the right software to show up!