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A six frame horizontal pano of Lyme Hall, Cheshire UK. File size of the original 57 Megapixels, this file 34 Megapixels. Stitched for this image in Lightroom's PhotoMerge, but also checked with Microsoft's ICE.

Pano Play
I've been messing around over the last couple of weeks trying to teach myself pano photography. Panorama photography has been a round for a long time and I guess we are all familiar with those images of mountains and valleys that stretch across the canvas, amazing vistas with 180 degree field of view. The idea for creating such shots is quite simple: you take your first shot then swing your camera around to the right, say, keeping a bit of the original still in the frame and keeping the camera level, take the second shot, and repeat for, say 5 or 6 shots. After the shots are developed you line them up using the overlaps and stitch them all together, nowadays with software, or originally using an enlarger that allowed for overlapping negatives, and hey presto you have your panorama. As it turns out, with modern software creating such a straightforward pano image is fairly simple, but the term "pano" now refers to a much wider (excuse the pun) idea of stitch

Description
A six frame horizontal pano of Lyme Hall, Cheshire UK. File size of the original 57 Megapixels, this file 34 Megapixels. Stitched for this image in Lightroom's PhotoMerge, but also checked with Microsoft's ICE.

Pano Play
I've been messing around over the last couple of weeks trying to teach myself pano photography. Panorama photography has been a round for a long time and I guess we are all familiar with those images of mountains and valleys that stretch across the canvas, amazing vistas with 180 degree field of view. The idea for creating such shots is quite simple: you take your first shot then swing your camera around to the right, say, keeping a bit of the original still in the frame and keeping the camera level, take the second shot, and repeat for, say 5 or 6 shots. After the shots are developed you line them up using the overlaps and stitch them all together, nowadays with software, or originally using an enlarger that allowed for overlapping negatives, and hey presto you have your panorama. As it turns out, with modern software creating such a straightforward pano image is fairly simple, but the term "pano" now refers to a much wider (excuse the pun) idea of stitch