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Merge to panorama poor results

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I regularly merge DNG shots taken on iPhone 15 in RAW (Apple RAW???) to panoramas in LR (cloud based) - I use AE/AF Lock on the iPhone to ensure all exposures are equal - Then once they have gone up into the Adobe cloud and come down to my Macbook Air (M2-2022) in LR (desktop cloud based), I merge to panorama from the DNG originals. Todays results are poor. I have experienced this issue a few times before, but am now perplexed. So, just to see if it made any difference, I developed each DNG to a similar feel, then exported as full size jpegs, re-imported those jpegs, and perfomed a panorama merge from them - the result is much better - see the attached small scale images (7300 pixel wide reduced to 1024 at 60% quality - to keep a small file size) - even on this small file size its abvious "pano 2" is the poor one - has anybody got any idea what is happening here? (pano 2 didnt sort the boundary correctly either!)
 

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If you apply the settings from one of those edited DNG's to the resulting pano DNG, is it any better?
 
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Victoria Bampton said:
If you apply the settings from one of those edited DNG's to the resulting pano DNG, is it any better?
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I am finding that if I apply Adaptive Color profile to the resulting Panorama DNG I get a better starting point for develop parameters. I do not use auto settings in the merge process.

I have not tried this with iPhone DNGs for Panorama.


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Victoria Bampton said:
If you apply the settings from one of those edited DNG's to the resulting pano DNG, is it any better?
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Am afraid not as I did try that - I had the same issue this week too - on a 4 shot pano - as in my examples one of the end images was all flat
 
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chrishowe said:
Am afraid not as I did try that - I had the same issue this week too - on a 4 shot pano - as in my examples one of the end images was all flat
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In reviewing your images, it seem that the right edge is shooting into or toward the sun. This would certainly require a different exposure from the left edge of the image. Also I see a lot of haze in the distance. Could it be more pronounced toward the right?

If you could post the original DNGs to wetransfer.com so that I could download them I could see for myself the issues.


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