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Capture the perfect panorama
Learn how to set up your tripod and prepare shots to merge later
Taking great panoramas is pretty involved in both composition and preparation. You can use the landscape itself to provide markers to help with your stitching, and choosing to shoot in a vertical format instead of horizontal can significantly improve your final proof. These simple steps to capturing the right view will have you setting up your tripod in just the right place.
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1. Use the right filters
We used a neutral density graduated filter (ND Grad) to capture more detail in the sky. Many landscape photographers use these filters to balance the bright skies of a scene with the foreground, which is often darker.
2. Switch to Manual
Switch to Manual mode. Because Manual won't automatically adjust the exposure in each of the shots, merging is easier, especially with the sky. Try Manual Focus too for maximum consistency.
3. How many shots?
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The number of shots needed depends on the size of your final image - there's no right or wrong. The more images you shoot, the bigger your final image will be.
Each image will need to overlap other images by about a third to ensure you don't have areas without detail. Our three images were taken in landscape format, but you could take a higher number of vertical images instead.
Glad you mentioned shooting in Manual mode - it was left out of the Digital Camera World (March 2010) issue, in George Cairns's article. I've also come to the conclusion that it's best to choose a 'fixed' White Balance rather than risk letting the camera make its own setting with AWB on each shot (not necessary in Raw shots, of course, but may help with consistency).
#1. Posted on Thursday, 15 Apr 2010 at 05:15am GMT. Report this
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