Summer vacations often include locations with amazing outdoor scenery and stunning landscapes. The desire to shoot panoramic photographs once meant investing in expensive equipment, but digital photography advancements mean that you can create picturesque panoramic s with your existing camera and computer. If you’ve hit the road in search of the great outdoors, make sure your images do Mother Nature justice.
Get in the Mode: Check your camera to see if you have a panoramic mode. If you aren’t sure, thumb through the menu or the manual to find out. The panoramic mode is designed to help stabilize lighting conditions between photos in the series, and it will not change exposures between pictures as it would in automatic mode.
Learn to Stitch: Most of today’s image editing programs have a stitching tool that is designed to create a panoramic image from multiple pictures. You may also be able to find a free software plug-in specifically for this purpose. Check online for the options available. You should be able to get what you need at no cost.
Stand Strong: Make sure to stand in the same position throughout shooting your series of images. A slight adjustment of your location can result in photographs that don’t properly line up during the stitching process. A quality tripod can help you retain your position while also keeping your camera stable. We offer a number of quality models here: http://www.promaster.com/products/tripods
Be Open to Overlap: Make sure to leave some overlap on each image so that the photos can be properly combined. When shooting the subsequent image, consider a 15-30% overlap of scene from the previous one.
Keep it Clean: Nothing can ruin a fantastic panoramic picture like a finger smudge or dirt spec on your camera’s lens. Keep a lens cleaning solution and cloth in your camera bag. Many vacation photos have been ruined due to smudges and dirt, so a little preparation really pays off. http://www.promaster.com/products/cleaning
Try it Vertical: Shooting a waterfall or other vertical wonder of nature requires the same basic principles as shooting a traditional horizontal panoramic. Feel free to play with the images until you get the feel for shooting vertically. You may find that the vertical element gives an additional creative twist to your panoramic photography!
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