Shooting Panoramas

Shooting Panoramas:  Brigitte and I shoot a lot of panoramas.  We do a lot of wall art, and panoramas fit well on long walls.  The image below is a 180 degree view of Yosemite Valley from Glacier point, and is comprised of 9 separate images.  This particular image was printed at 144" X 30", and is hanging in the Tax Collectors of of the San Joaquin County Administration building.

Tips for shooting Panoramas:

• Use a tripod
• Shoot all images vertical
• Overlap each image by 20%
• Do not use any filters
• Set camera to manual to avoid the camera's meter from changing your settings
• Turn off manual focus to avoid changes in the focal plane.
• Shoot in jpeg
• Under the tools tab of  Bridge, use photomerge
• If the images do not stitch together in one layout of photomerge, try a different layout you will have six layouts to select from.

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