So I've been trying out Microsoft's ICE (I've liked it a lot) and usually have decent success with the images blending together. This shot was my first one taken at sunrise and while the left 2 shots blended decent, the center and right shot had a pretty big difference (look at the field). I was exposing to try to get the sky the same which seems to have worked out well, but at the expense of the clarity in the field. I've been trying to blend the fields a bit better and have been having trouble.
Any thoughts on how to improve on this?
Maybe this is a silly question but do you have access to Lightroom or Photoshop? Only asking to then ask what the results are from their blending methods
I do not. I will hopefully sometime in the nearish future, but for now I'm using ICE, Snapseed, Lightroom CC (freeversion) and Polarr. I'd say 95% of my editing is currently done on an iPad.
I've never used ICE personally so I won't be of much help. But I thought it worth while to try and see what another program might do like Lightroom. Wish I could help more past that Tim!
Thanks Alex! I can always come back to these images once I get something new figured out.
I think generally in my experience with photoshop and lightroom that dark areas are hard for it to combine. For example, trying to stitch together a night sky photo is nearly impossible with the automatic settings if the foreground is too dark. That's obviously and extreme example, but certainly could be a reason you're having trouble here.
That's good to know. I can definitely bring the shadows up a bit, at least for the photo merge. I was thinking at the time that a darker field/middle ground will keep the attention on the sky which is what I'm trying to show most in the image.
I don't actually know if raising the shadows gives the program any more detail to work with on a merge. Mostly because I'm not 100% on how automatic blends work.
For example. When they go to blend, don't they have that information there anyways? Or do they lighten the shadows themselves to perfect a blend.
I would make the middleground a bit lighter and your logo much smaller.
Thanks for the feedback Valdo! I will see what I can get done (the logo is the easy part)
Hi Tim,
I use ICE sine the first betha, must be about 10 years. It is by far the fastest stithcer I ever used since 13 years!
My workflow:
for the shooting set everything on manual, incl. ISO!
import into LR
edit the image light and contrast
synchronize all images and check, if the darkest and lightest images are ok.
if not, adjust images again to take care of the problem images and synchronize again!
export as TIF to a specific folder
import to ICE and stitch
if the automatic is not ok. try other settings
you did not tell us, how many images and the orientation.
for me the result on my screen doesn't look too bad! If you want more details in the dark foreground better do it before stitching.
Regards
dierk