how many pictures for panoramas

[brotell1950]

how many photos can i use to make a panorama i currently have 14 pictures i want to stitch but affinity only does 5 or 6

Any info will be appreciated

[Alfred]

I don’t know if there’s a limit but I’d expect it to be higher than fourteen, and certainly higher than five or six! Do the excluded pictures get stitched together successfully as a separate set?

Make sure there’s a significant overlap between adjacent pictures in the sequence.

[brotell1950]

i can stitch the other photos in 4-5 series

[Alfred]

How much overlap is there? I think you need at least 15%, but I’ve seen recommendations that it should be 20% or even 25%.

[brotell1950]

i can stitch the other photos in 4-5 series

 

there appears to be plenty of overlap

[Alfred]

Have you tried stitching four or five together at a time, to give you three small panoramas, and then stitching those three small panos?

[brotell1950]

yes i think that maybe a way around it

[firstdefence]

I always take panorama’s with about 30% overlap, this gives the software plenty of control points to use.

It could also be the subject, and the software is finding it hard to apply control points in certain images breaking the stitch process.

[John Rostron]

2 hours ago, firstdefence said:

The software is finding it hard to apply control points in certain images breaking the stitch process.

This is certainly true for cloudscapes.

John

[brotell1950]

i am starting to wander if it is the subject a friend is painting a mural on a wall with different themes and its about 80 meters long they all join together to form the mural  

[R C-R]

6 minutes ago, brotell1950 said:

i am starting to wander if it is the subject a friend is painting a mural on a wall with different themes and its about 80 meters long they all join together to form the mural  

How many of your 14 shots include much (if any) overlap where the mural transitions from one theme to the next?

[brotell1950]

all of them have overlap of varying degrees

[Alfred]

Even without any overlap, each of the current 14 photos would have to cover a section about six metres wide. It sounds as though you may need more photos to give the stitching algorithm enough detail to latch onto.

8 hours ago, brotell1950 said:

a friend is painting a mural on a wall

Off-topic note from the Department of Redundancy Department: If it weren’t on a wall it wouldn’t be a mural!

[Fixx]

18 hours ago, John Rostron said:

This is certainly true for cloudscapes.

John

Funny, I just produced some cloudscape panos. I think maximum amount of shots was 7, there were a lot of overlap, no problems (unless you count that when you think shots were all vertical but they stitched to a steep angle... I guess that is to be expected when shooting wide angle. On the other hand, AP does not seem to have any corrections built in like PS?)

[brotell1950]

I have sorted it out i had taken 3 sets of the mural in raw so i used batch to convert them and use a different set and bingo all 14 turned into a panorama