Taking Panoramic Photos

So one of the greatest tools that we've been given in photography with the onslaught of digital and computers is we can now shoot panoramics without having to have a panoramic camera. There's a few things you need to know when you're shooting panoramics in order for your panoramic to work. Here we go. First of all, it helps to be on a tripod. You can hand hold your camera but it helps to be on a tripod to keep that action steady. As we go through. One of the things you need to do is put your camera on manual. The camera needs to be on your manual. So your exposures don't change. As we go from shot to shot, to shot, to shot. The other is turn your auto focus off. If you're out of focus is on. As we go through each shot in our panoramic the focus changes when we load our images into the computer it can't find the pixels to match it up. So you need to take your auto focus off. So each shot is the same. The basic formula I have is I try to find the most important part of the shot. And I make that my center and that's the most important part of my picture. I get my exposure I get my composition and then my focus. And then from that point it's level when I get to it and I can start from either side and I click overlapping one third of each frame as I go through. So I take a shot, overlap one third, take my next shot overlap a third all the way through my scene. As far as I wanna go to capture everything in that photograph. So auto focus off, manual exposure. I go horizontal. As you see now, people suggest that you should shoot everything vertically but the computers have gotten so sophisticated. It's not an issue as much anymore as it was just even a year ago. So that's how we shoot panoramics. You'll love the difference. Let's take a look. I'm overlapping each one of my shots by thirds. So the computer can find that resolution those pixels and line them up for me seamlessly. And there we go. We have a panoramic shot.