Lightroom 2015 (5) pano stitching is exceptional!

[novak977]

Took 11 portrait shots and stitched them in LR to 80+MP dng file.

All taken in manual mode, hand-held and quite underexposed (ISO equivalent of at least 1000)

Stitched perfectly, even though horizons were quite uneven.

But the best part is the one DNG file which is full RAW format and was subjected to quite expensive darks and shadows lift.



Overall, pleasurable evening: the walk, the camera and lens and LR post production.



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[Rhawi Dantas]

Took 11 portrait shots and stitched them in LR to 80+MP dng file.

All taken in manual mode, hand-held and quite underexposed (ISO equivalent of at least 1000)

Stitched perfectly, even though horizons were quite uneven.

But the best part is the one DNG file which is full RAW format and was subjected to quite expensive darks and shadows lift.

Overall, pleasurable evening: the walk, the camera and lens and LR post production.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogic

Very good indeed. Do you have any experience with stitching in photoshop? If so, how do they compare?

I still would use PS to align few things here and there with puppet warp but for being the first time of LR to have stitching I guess it is quite good.

Also nice shot man, where was this taken?

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[miro3]

Looks good!

Did you do this with Lightroom 5?!

 

[Lightshow]

A quick look, I couldn't see anything cut off, so that's good news.

Nice pano too.

 

[CameraCarl]

Don't you really mean Lightroom 6.0?

 

[novak977]

Don't you really mean Lightroom 6.0?

Apologies, yes Lightroom 6! (CC 2015)

 

[lacix]

Fantastic!

 

[Imakefoto4U]

Very tricky shooting boats in a harbour since they sway back and forth on the water. So LR did a good job stitching the photos. I also use Autopano Giga for more control re editing panoramas.

 

[litetaker]

Took 11 portrait shots and stitched them in LR to 80+MP dng file.

All taken in manual mode, hand-held and quite underexposed (ISO equivalent of at least 1000)

Stitched perfectly, even though horizons were quite uneven.

But the best part is the one DNG file which is full RAW format and was subjected to quite expensive darks and shadows lift.

Overall, pleasurable evening: the walk, the camera and lens and LR post production.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogic

Very good. However, may I ask the performance of the panorama stitching? When I tried to do it with a moderate number of images (7 or so I believe) LightRoom 6 was unable to stitch it due to severe performance constraints. I have 6 GB RAM and running 2nd generation i5 processor. Yet Lightroom took 100% of RAM and just couldn't finish the process and crawled my computer to a halt. On the other hand, Photoshop CC was able to finish it *much* faster and with a fraction of RAM usage. From personal experience, Photoshop is very adept at Panoramas and can do some even tricky ones by suitably choosing the settings in the merge dialog box and using puppet warp. Here is the one that Lightroom struggled for me, done using PS.


Summer barbeque

And here is one that PS finally managed to do well by choosing Perspective option and doing some puppet warp.

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DC United football (aka soccer) stadium

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[litetaker]

Very good indeed. Do you have any experience with stitching in photoshop? If so, how do they compare?

I still would use PS to align few things here and there with puppet warp but for being the first time of LR to have stitching I guess it is quite good.

Also nice shot man, where was this taken?

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Portfolio : http://dantas.photography
Streets of Helsinki : http://streetsofhelsinki.dantas.photography
Flickr : https://secure.flickr.com/photos/rhawidantas/sets/

While I am not OP, I do feel Photoshop has an edge, performance wise and flexibility wise, with panoramas. For me, LR just couldn't do large panoramas due to insufficient RAM (mind you, I have 6 GB of RAM so its not like I was severely lacking). May be because it is playing with full RAW images rather than jpgs, it is slower, but Photoshop is astronomically faster and less taxing on the computer's resources. So, for me, the convenience of doing it right out of LR is significantly overshadowed by the sheer lack of performance. It was so bad that one time I had to force reboot my computer to make it respond again! I shouldn't have to do that. So I am going to stick with PS for this one. First process the images to my liking in LR, export, then stitch in PS. Plus, PS has some additional cool features, like you've mentioned, such as puppet warp and more flexibility when it comes to merging the photos that it is very handy with tricky panorama shots! See the images I've shared for two tricky ones that I did with PS.

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[novak977]

Hi,

I have a very similar setup, i5 and 8gb and it went relatively fast, perhaps under the minute to stitch 11 photos into a single, DNG raw file.

it is a clean install of Windows 7, so that may be part of the equation.

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[cxsparc]

Considering that the free (!) Microsoft Image Composite Editor does very good stitching (in the past faster and better than Photoshop, don't know now) and in the new version even supports auto-complete, it is certainly nice that LR now also has such a feature, but it is not exceptional or earth-shattering ;-) IMHO.

 

[novak977]

Considering that the free (!) Microsoft Image Composite Editor does very good stitching (in the past faster and better than Photoshop, don't know now) and in the new version even supports auto-complete, it is certainly nice that LR now also has such a feature, but it is not exceptional or earth-shattering ;-) IMHO.

 

[CameraCarl]

One thing that an Adobe rep pointed out to me is that the Lightroom Panos result in DNG files which are almost 1/10 the size of the TIFF files which come out of Photoshop. This may be of interest to people who do a lot of panoramas and have limited storage space (or are starting to do panos from RAW files from high megapixel cameras). One other thing I learned -- and this clarifies an earlier post of mine -- is that the new version of Lightroom can be correctly called either "Lightroom 6" or "Lightroom CC (2105)." It all depends on whether you buy it freestanding or get is as part of the CC subscription.