From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas
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Compensating for the nodal point
From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas
Compensating for the nodal point
- We've talked about what the nodal point is, but I want to go ahead and walk you through how to actually compensate for it. And this typically involves adjusting the position of your camera. Now, if you're using a standard tripod plate you're not going to really have many options. You're really just stuck with what you have. You're going to have to rely on software to fix it. But if you want to step up to a higher level using some additional pieces of equipment you can often offset the camera so it's not right over the middle. So by sliding that back a little bit you can find the right position. And I'm going to walk you through even a more advanced exercise to show you how to really get it accurately. You'll notice behind me I have two pieces of equipment set up, and what I've done is I've tried to create one object closer to the camera and one farther away. If you don't walk around with light stands like I tend to you could use just straight objects like two telephone poles, or the…
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