September 2008
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
9h 36m
English
Content preview from The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion
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CHAPTER 9
SHOOTING PANORAMAS
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shoots the shot (of course, this is also true when looking through the normal
viewfinder).
Live View’s limited dynamic range can make composition a little trickier because
some compositional elements that you see with your eye may be obscured in Live
View. With practice, you can learn to work around this, and at first you may not
even notice it, simply because you don’t miss what you can’t see. But ultimately,
composing with a real viewfinder almost always allows a better view of your scene
—and therefore more creative options—than a view on an LCD viewfinder. is
is not a deficiency of the XSi, you’ll find this problem in any camera that uses an
LCD screen as a viewfinder.
Shooting Panoramas
No matter how wide your lens might go, there will still be times when you face
a vista that just can’t be captured in one frame. In the old days, your only choice
would have been to shoot a series of images and layer them together to create a
collage.
Before digital image processing, the only way to create a photographic panorama
from multiple shots was to make a collage.
Nothing is wrong with this technique, and it can actually be quite evocative, but
thanks to digital image processing, we have another option. Now you can take
those same images, and, rather than layering them together as a collage, you can
digitally merge them into a single seamless image.
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