The Digital Photography Book

A Timesaving Pano Trick

When you come back from a shoot, if you shot some panos, you’re going to find out one of the challenges of shooting panos: finding them. When you open your images in Lightroom, or Adobe Bridge, or wherever, you’re looking at thumbnails of perhaps hundreds of images, and it’s a bit challenging to figure out where your panos start and end. I’ve completely forgotten that I have a pano in a particular shoot because they don’t jump out at you sometimes. But, there’s a simple trick that makes finding them a two-second job: Before you shoot your pano’s first frame, hold your finger up in front of your lens and take a shot (see ...