November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
192 pages
4h 8m
English

Yala Shan and rainbows, western Sichuan, 2009
On the previous pages I used a quick two-frame pan, but you can continue panning and shooting to construct a true panorama, as wide as you like. Not all scenes deserve it, however, so the discipline in photographing panoramas is in imagining clearly how the final frame will look. This was the high grassland of western Sichuan, and a double rainbow plus Yala mountain in the far distance made the shot. Grasslands have a wide-open feeling in any case, justifying a wide panoramic treatment. Shooting the series level and consistently is important, otherwise the shot may not work at all, for the ...
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