Yeah,
I'm not dealing with bad horizons and poor shooting technique, the camera is level and everything is fine, horizonwizen.
The thing Im talking about is the natural distortion that occurrs in a panorama from the need to take horizontal lines and make them bend The Rectilinear format works except that there is a nasty bit of distortion at the edges, rushing edges is how I like to describe it..it happens especially when you really push the limits of the FOV for a rectilinear pano. So i guess in the respect, it doesn't work for me.
Yeah Johnathan, I understand that you can go to 360..Im not interested in that. In fact, i find those 360 panos to be a bit tedious sometimes, unless there is something particularly compelling going on all round. The stuff Im working on is,the most part, less than 180. 180 would be one of the extreme examples.
I have had some luck making corrections in the facades of buildings..curved rooflines, curved windowlines etc. I'm not trying to rescue the entire image from curved lines, only certain elements where I feel that the building is being represented way wrong.
The "wide enough" statement was meant to express what happens in a Rectilinear pano when you push it to it's useful limit. The edges distortion gets to be pretty bad and I don't like it. I find the curves to be more acceptable than the edge distortion.
What I am experiencing are delightful panoramas that have the typically bent horizontal lines.
And yep, I'm looking to Photoshop to fix some of this after the fact. In this case I'm asking PS to iron out a curve and edge it towards being more of a truth. It's a wonderful program for this and it does help me, occasionally, when my shooting technique is not up to par after a hamburger and 12 beers.
Like i said, I'm having some luck using marquis selections and the warp tool to straighten some roof lines and such...Im looking for a little bit more control and some additional ideas/tools/selection methods...
Crafty ways of making quiet corrections to specific areas where curves are bugging me.