Panorama: Some Miscellaneous Thoughts

Over the past few days, we looked at some of the basics that you need to keep in mind when you are thinking about capturing a panorama. Set your camera to manual. You need to keep the aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, and focus the same in each shot. Remember to overlap each shot.

Hold the camera vertically/portrait (above image from Arches National Park) unless you desire a long narrow final print, then shot horizontally/landscape (below from the top of the Arc de Triomphe). That Paris image will require a very special frame.

Be aware of varied light in the sky, bright at one side and darker at the other side. Don't use a polarizer (filter that reduces reflection and often darkens the sky); it gives uneven sky results when stitching the images.

Beware of backlit subjects. The light in the panorama will likely be too uneven to stitch properly.
So, give it a try. Go take some panorama images like the one of Aalesund, Norway (above).

Or if the seems like too much work, just crop any appropriate image in a panorama format. That is just what I did to the image at the very top of this posting. It is kind of a faux pano. This one is an image taken in Paris of Notre Dame from near the Ile St. Louis. The cropping idea is illustrated above.

Have fun.