Stitching - An Advanced Aproach

by Bernard Languillier

Smoking Earth
It has been known for centuries that digitally assembling a mosaic of adequately captured images is possible thanks to the process called stitching. You may want to pause here for a few seconds, check for allergic skin reactions to the idea of having to spend even more time processing images…
Stitching enables the photographer to produce images in any possible aspect ratio while increasing significantly resolution and reducing the impact of lenses aberrations such as light fall off and reduced corner sharpness.
On the downside, stitching does take a bit more time and doesn’t apply to all types of images. When not done properly or ingurgitated in prescribed amounts, stitching does carry an element of risk. There may be cases when it is difficult to come up with a perfect image devoid of any stitching defects. Would that be any bigger a departure from an ideal capture of reality than our other images with their poor corner sharpness, li...