Chapter 5
Creating Panoramas
IN THIS CHAPTER
Shooting individual panorama photos
Creating panoramas with software
Using additional techniques and equipment
Creating in-camera panoramas
Shooting panoramas is fun. Panoramas look great, and the process of shooting them will provide you with a welcome break from standard photography. Point the camera at something interesting. Take a picture. Pan the camera a bit, but not too far. Shoot again. Keep going until you’ve taken enough photos to create a panorama. All you need is a few, but the more, the merrier! After you get back to your computer, load the photos into software that can stitch them together into a single image. This is panorama photography, in a savory nutshell.
If you’re looking for affirmation, panoramas evoke oohs and aahs from everyone. It's rewarding to find a good scene that you want to capture in a format wider or taller than a standard photo and then make it happen. I show you how to take the photos and process them in this chapter.
Shooting Pan-tastic Panoramas
The main point of photographing a panorama is to capture ...
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