Shot & Thought #13 - Wider view on the landscape

Hi Steemians!

Today short post about Panoramic photography and technique I am using.
About details I am going to write separate post in the future. Panoramic photography is one of my favourite kind of shooting. Panoramas give the ability to show much more than in standard single shot, it takes us almost in the center of the scene. Thanks to wider view we can work more on different points of view, with different compositions.

To get the best effect I am using vertical position of the camera almost all the time. Vertical shots have less barrel distortion on the shorter sides of the image so the stitching process is much easier in post processing. Also, vertical position allows us to catch a foreground detials as well as big part of the sky. Sometimes, if I want to focus on the foreground and the sky in the same time - I am doing first panoramic shot of the ground, than sky panorama and place them together after proper post processing.

This kind of photography gives us the only chance to show the scene as it really is - all kinds of FishEye lenses are making such a big distortion that it is imposible to correct it later in any way. Artistic purposes of FishEye is ok, but in landscape photography, for me it is useless lens.

About the technique - If we make all the shots using tripod, and hold the horizon in the same line all the time, it is possible to get the good results using Automate process in Photoshop called PhotoMerge. I was trying this few times, and maybe in 20% cases it was quite ok. But I prefer to do everything manually - in my opinion, handmade stitching of photos gives us full control of the process and best results. It needs a lot of time, sometimes stitching big panorama from 7-8 single shots takes about an hour or more - but it is worth it.

Here on the picture Panoramic shot of freezing Tannforsen waterfall in Sweden. This one was made from 5 horizontal shots. You must watch it in full screen to see the amount of details of the photo.

Original size of this Panorama is 11106x4994 pix :). Hope You like it!

^{Left click on the image to view in Full Screen mode!}

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