These photos are from a 3 day live aboard dive trip to Cortes Banks on the Peace. On the way home we stopped at Santa Barbara Island for some shallow lobster hunting. These Panoramas are from that stop. I took no dive photos on this trip and brought my camera without it’s housing. I think that was probably a mistake. Rats.
Anyway, I love to monkey with Photoshop’s photo merge. These panoramas made from photos taken from the boat posed a problem for photoshop. The results frequently didn’t marry up perfectly, the way they can when the photos are taken more carefully. I also was not able to use the auto, or perspective settings because of the strange perspective results and the interactive setting would just quit with no results. I could only use the “flat” setting, and then at least one photo or more photos from the batch would be omitted from the merge, and I’d have to add it manually. Then they all need touching up on the auto masks. Merging into the batch a photo composed mainly of empty water was a particular problem, as was the fact that boat moved up and down.
But I am more than pleased with the first and last panorama. Those I think turned out great and would look very nice printed large format after some more careful cleanup work.
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