Skiing series help

[ZL4life]

This is a series i got of my friends disasterous disaster rail. I did my best at photoshopping all the pictures together to make one. I think i did alright. I know there are some problems, but over all it looks ok doesn't it?
This guy does want a print of this shot, so any advice i can get would be put to good use.
If someone else wants to give it a shot, i'll email them the origional pictuers.



I am going to the Breck Spring Massive slope style and Keystone's super park this weekend, so expect some shots from that.

[CLKunst]

That's so cool! I love how the lost ski travels with him! Great catch! As far as advice for the stitching goes, I've never done anything exactly like this before but I imagine it's much the same as building a panoramic. I would suggest cloning the little bits in the background that just don't quite match instead of making yourself crazy over lining things up. Other than that I don't really see any big problems, just a really good sequence. No wonder he wants a copy. Best of luck for this weekend.

Regards,

[PMW518]

It looks pretty good aver all, just a couple small spots on the one rail support and in the background along the tree line that you see that just don't quite match up, but overall pretty nice.
I have done a few different stitch jobs similar to this. Heres a couple examples, (larger versions in my gallery)




I usually start at the "begging" of the sequence and add each next frame as a new layer in photoshop and use the eraser to remove the parts of the frame that overlap the previous one where the subject is and leave the rest of it that it the same background stuff. When doing this i try to stay consistent with which one of the person overlaps the other usually the one that is farther along in the sequence, for any spots that they overlap. Then I move to blending and differences in color of sky or other background, using healing and clone tools to blend the edges of the frames together. After that you can treat it like a regular shot and follow your work flow of choice, levels, curves, sharpening....

Hopefully that all made some sort of sense.

I can take a try at yours if you like, and let you know what all I did with either explanations and or screen shots if you like.

Looking forward to more shots from this weekend, I wish I could still be skiing, instead I'm sitting here waiting for you weather to make up its mind that it is spring and that it can stop trying to snow, so I can go biking.

Phil

[afdlips]

and that is the reason why I don't grind anymore. I like this a lot. I think the only thing that bothers me is the blur caused by PP on the guys arm in the shot farthest to the left.

[ZL4life]

i'm going to fix that before printing