Panoramic Images

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Characteristics of this type of shot: Panoramic image without tight cropping.

Ingredients: This shot is multiple frames combined into a single panoramic image in Lightroom, shot from up on a hill overlooking the scene. I shot the image at 70mm to limit the distortion you’d get from using a wider-angle lens, and I shot it with the camera vertical for the same reason—to limit distortion—but also to make sure I captured enough that I wouldn’t have to crop off much of the foreground or the tops of the mountains. By shooting tall like that, I had extra room if I had to crop away gaps that happen during the stitching process. However, ...

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