From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas

Shooting time-lapse as RAW files

From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas

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Shooting time-lapse as RAW files

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- You could probably guess after watching the last movie that I'm a big fan of RAW. Now which RAW you choose is up to you. Your camera may offer several sizes. I recommend if your goal here is to make the most beautiful panoramic image with the greatest flexibility, go ahead and shoot at the largest RAW size you have. And depending upon your camera, that may be a 10 bit, a 12 bit or even a 14 bit file, giving you great accuracy for the color. With the RAW file, there's a couple of things that I want you to be careful of. Make sure the camera is not using a pre-set white balance. You're going to want to get out of things like Auto or Shadow or shooting in daylight mode and rather switch to a specific Degrees Kelvin. If you can't do that, then go for a custom pre-set that you create and don't let the camera vary. As I pan the camera and I'm pulling off those shots, it's going to become very essential that the camera does the least amount of changing possible. So as such with the RAW, I want to capture it with a pre-set white balance and make sure that everything else stays locked down. The good news is, is the RAW files are pretty flexible so you can always adjust that during the post-production stage, but that just makes extra work. So take the time to get it right in the camera first.

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