Hi guys!
Milky Way season is coming and i want share with you this Multi Row Panorama take last August in Dolomites, I plan everything at home with PhotoPills and Stellarium, so I was aware that the arch will be very high in the sky and it need a multi row panorama for take the whole arch.
I was very excited and nervous at the same time because the risk to fail the first attempt was very high, and I spent over 4 hours with 20kg of backpack to reach the summit (I slept here whit no tent). Would be a total frustration fail this shoot.
I was very lucky to find a clear sky without humidity (shoot the Milky in Dolomites is not very easy due the tons of humidity that compromise the result), probably I never found a clear sky like that in many years that i go in Dolomites and get an awesome sky signal.
Fujifilm X-T3
Sky: Viltrox 13mm 1.4
3 rows, each row 13 vertical panels, each panels 5 shoots 15" f/2 3200 iso, 195 total shoots for the sky.
Land: Nisi 9mm 2.8
Single row, 10 vertical panels, each panel 3 shoot 120" f/2.8 iso 800
Sequator/PTGui/Photoshop
in the second pic i show you how i planned this shoot, hope can be helpful to understand better, let my know your opinion in the comments :)
This is very insight full! Thanks for sharing. I was struggling with the correct amount and angles of the panorama and what to shoot in the foreground.
a litte bit of test and experience it needed :)
Nice!
Many thanks!
Thanks for sharing how you did it. I'm just curious though. I've never tried anything like this. Why are all these shots necessary?
And if you're shooting at 13mm are you not already getting the entire sky in frame? I just don't see how you would need 13 rows of sky shooting at 13mm? And is all this stacking just for noise reduction? And if so with all of the noise reduction technology out there today, is this really necessary?
Please don't take my comments the wrong way. I'm not critiquing I'm genuinely curious. I see photos like this all the time and have always wondered why all that was necessary. Thanks!
Great image by the way!
This is a 270° panorama shot, so it's impossible frame all that field and sky with just one shot.
The Milky Way arch was not in front of me, but literally above my head, so i had to incline many times my camera to catch all the sky.
Keep in mind when you do panoramic shot you have to overlap at least 30% the shots for a good sticking result, to avoid sticking software error/issue.
For complex multi-row panorama like this i used PTGUI a specific software to stick all the pics (over 200 single shoot), it cost 400 euro for the licenses, but you really need it to stick complex panoramic shoot, Photoshop is not able to merge this level of panos.
Every frame is done by 5 single shoot to avoid noise, i prefer this way instead AI denoise because the effort to reach that point in Dolomites was so hard, and i don't want risk to ruin the result with an approximative AI denoise.
Ahhhhhh, that makes way more sense now. Didn't realize the Milky Way was straight overhead. Thanks for the clarification!
You're welcome 🙂