Panoramic Images

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, when the image was in Lightroom, I used the Boundary Warp feature to keep as much of the original image as possible (see Chapter 5 for more on panos).

Location: Val di Funes in the Dolomites mountains of northern Italy.

Camera Settings: Shot in aperture priority mode; 70–200mm f/2.8 lens at 70mm; ISO 100 at f/7.1; shutter speed: 1/250 of a second.