Many photographers have been using several tools for years to create panoramas for long prints, but there are more available to us now that are just brilliant for an easier workflow. The term “stitching” goes back a ways, when photographic montages were combined to create one large image for the early days of VR imaging – primarily with Apple’s QTVR and scanned film was used as our source material. Everything else can be tweaked further in Photoshop/Lightroom. Fortunately, today’s stitching software will compensate the differences around the pano and still provide a smooth completed image without any over/underexposed regions in the finished product. This allows me to capture crisp details, even if I’m facing the rising or setting sun in one direction. Having a good GPS lock helps and avoid really heavy winds.Īs far as exposure goes, I typically will shoot with an ND8-PL filter from PolarPro on a DJI Phantom 3,4 Pro or Inspire 1, depending on the location and time of day, and let the camera auto-adjust the exposures as I pan around. It’s important to keep your elevation and position locked as close as possible, so your foreground images don’t shift too much from frame to frame. DronePan settings for a DJI Phantom 3 Pro If using the DJI Inspire, then you can also add a row of +30º “sky” shots that will help fill in the upper portion of your spherical pano.
The DronePan app allows you to set variables in automated pan capture and will automatically detect which craft you’re flying. If it’s a clear blue sky day above you, then you may not need to also capture an image straight up at 180º (zenith) but hard to do with a drone so at least capture one with your iPhone and you can edit it in later.ĭepending on the complexity of the shot and how wide the FOV of your camera is (like a GoPro for instance), you can also just do three complete pans at 90/45/0. I will typically do a full rotate with the camera facing straight out at 90º, then do another full rotation down about 60º, then another about 30º and finally one straight down at 0º (nadir). This will ensure you’ll have enough data for the pano stitching software to do its job.
If you’re shooting manually or selecting frames from a video clip, then make sure you have about 50-70% overlap in the images as you frame them up during your panning. You can manually position and trigger the camera to take the shots you need, record 4K video while panning the craft and pull the desired frames out later or you can utilize an app such as DronePan if you’re flying a DJI Phantom Mavic Pro or Inspire. There are several ways to capture imagery to create your panorama image with a camera drone. So let’s take a look at what’s involved: Sunrise over SF and Bay Bridge Shooting your aerial pano After Facebook introduced the ability to view 360 panorama images directly in the page feeds, they not only allow you to upload directly from your cameras or iPhones, but also to create spherical panos that you can capture professionally with your drone and some computer magic and bringing old print panos to new life in the process. With all the recent interest in 360º VR technology, cameras like the Ricoh Theta S and the new GoPro Fusion, we’re only just beginning to scratch the surface on the latest craze.
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