Making a panorama isn’t the time to use a wide angle lens. Here are a few tips for making an effective panorama from a series of images. But stitching together images from a DSLR or other high-resolution camera will yield better results if you do it right. Panoramas are hardly a novelty, Smartphones and many point and shoots can create them in-camera. I wanted the details in the mountains while maintaining a sense of the vast landscape. Going super wide to capture it all, with my 14mm, made the mountains too small and distant, and left too much empty space. The glaciers and spires were painted in peach light. I was photographing along a gravel beach near Haines, Alaska this winter, while the alpenglow was lighting up the peaks across the inlet (see image above). I was photographing along a gravel beach near Haines, Alaska this winter, while the alpenglow was lighting up the peaks across the inlet. There was just too much going on, or things were happening in a way that just didn’t match a typical single-image format. But often, camera in hand, I’ve stood there, unable to create the image I wanted. I’m fortunate to spend a lot of time in the grand landscapes of Alaska. Sometimes, just one image won’t do the trick.
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