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Old September 25th, 2008, 03:48 PM
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Shooting Panoramas

Great article on shooting panoramas in this months Outdoor Photographer. You can read it online here.
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Old September 25th, 2008, 06:06 PM
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Thanks, Bill. I've been wanting to get some tips on how to do this. I'll check that article out later...
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Bill, thanks. I've bookmarked the site. Panorama -- that's something I haven't tried yet.
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Thank you. I bookmarked this site for future use!
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Thanks for the link - some good suggestions although I'd just shot a panorama and broken some of the rules . No tripod so I used a monopod. No prime lens so I used a zoom. Shot in lanscape and not portrait. But I did shoot manual (same exposure for all shots) and I did use RAW which gets round the auto white balance issue (you can then choose the same white balance for all shots). Stitched it in PSE6 which does a great job (no visible lines between shots).

This used about 8 shots of the fall colors in Algonquin Park. They are just reaching their peak this week. Going to have to do some more editing on it when I get back to civiliztion - my laptop in the field isn't that great for editing colours.



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I took this this past summer not knowing anything about the rules. The pics were taken hand-held from a boat. The water and shore came out ok, but the sky was a variety of exposures due to shooting in auto. So I selected the sky and replaced it with a blue gradient. Thank you for posting this link; I think I can now improve my technique.
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Holy smokes!!!

Tony, the panorama you posted is AWESOME.
What an inspiration. I've got to give this a try, although no RAW option, nor lightroom........hmm....maybe it's over my head afterall....
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Tony, this is I what I call a PANORAMA! It's impressive!
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Toni,

I agree with Sepiana and Mary. Your Panorama is awesome
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Great job, Tony!

The few that I have tried before were also done landscape, but I can see the reasoning behind saying use portrait. Hey -- whatever works!
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