Nearly 180 degree pano

[Akira]

Lots of small glitches, but decided to share here.  D7000, 35/1.8 ED, shot hand-held in the portrait orientation.  This time I left the AF on, following the tutorial here:

https://luminous-landscape.com/having-fun-with-panoramas/

However, the two obvious vertical seams on the right-hand side seems to have been caused by the slight shift of the entrance pupil.  This was the first time I did a pano with AF on, and this was the first time I experience this type of glitch.  The exposure was, as always, fixed (this time to f5.6, 1/800, ISO100).

[ColinM]

I'm guessing the clouds were meant to be the stars of this, rather than the "land"

Is this why you chose a 35mm lens for this?

[Akira]

Colin, thanks for dropping in and commenting.

The stars or the laned, I was intrigued by the shapes of the clouds and the way they are spread out. 

I used 35mm (on DX) in order to keep the stitching error caused by the perspective distortion at bay, which was not very successful in this case, though.

[Erik Lund]

It looks super strange with the cropped rooftops of the houses, like there is nothing underneath them, also the orange lower left makes the whole scene a bit surreal...

[elsa hoffmann]

I am with Erik here.

[Akira]

Erik and Elsa, thanks for commenting.

I wanted to capture the clouds as much as possible, but would regret that there was not enough foreground left after the crop.  I had to trim the top and the bottom porions of the original stitch due to the uneveness of hand-held shooting method, even though the camera was hold in a portrait orientation.  Maybe I should have used a tripod or done a two-row stitch.

[Jakov Minić]

Akira why don't you try shooting two rows in portrait mode.
I love those clouds!

[Akira]

Jakov, I WILL try next time.  These clouds have already gone.   

[Jakov Minić]

The clouds WILL come back and you WILL be ready for them

[Akira]

You're right, Jakov!   

And next time I will turn AF off.

[armando_m]

I thought stitching errors are also caused by the images not overlapping enough ?

[elsa hoffmann]

I have never done two rows of images - so forgive the blondness
I assume you just do 2 rows and the software pics up it's 2 rows??

good tip that since I am also short most of the time

[Akira]

I thought stitching errors are also caused by the images not overlapping enough ?

Armando, when I just started to do pano, I failed to overlap the images enough, but the error caused by that never looked like this (I disabled the AF).  Also, the stitches have never been straight.

[Akira]

I have never done two rows of images - so forgive the blondness
I assume you just do 2 rows and the software pics up it's 2 rows??

good tip that since I am also short most of the time

Elsa, I use Photomerge in CC2015, and it does multi-row stitches.  I've experimented with 2x8 and 3x3 stitches with Photomerge which analyzes the parts and detects rows and columns.

[Jakov Minić]

PTGui is the best stitching software out there as far as I know.

Yes, it does help when you have such good friends