Put some drama to it (Panorama)

Even how much good the quality of an image is, some of you might have already come across with the same observation as I have. Photographs can only show a limited point of view of a certain subject. Another creative and artful way is to combine several shots as needed into one to be able to do that and post-process them. Taking several photos and stitching them into one to show it in a perspective which sometimes is not the way it was seen in normal view.

The technique is for you to take overlapping shots of the subject you have chosen. The frames of the first photo taken should overlap with the next one with 20-50 percent of its size. Just imagine two rectangles overlapping like a Venn diagram, although, in this case you’d be doing it in taking pictures. The whole point here is that you should be able to capture several shot of a single subject in the same angle but in different frames. For instance, you are standing in a single vantage point your head directed at 180 degrees from your left side gradually turning on the other side. This is most like what you will do if you are planning to produce a panoramic image. You will have to first examine your subject and analyze which perspective fits the view.

You can do this in many ways have it the basic way which is taking photos of a single straight lane, an example is a highway or a beach. Having either of these subjects you might want a much longer view to emphasize its structures. You can also make a panoramic image which gives away a turning perspective, for example, a dome, or a cylindrical venue crowded with people.

Using fisheye and or kit lenses are recommended. It is said to be more useful and effective in this style of photography. Fisheye lens at 8-15mm and kit lens at 18-55mm should be good to take panoramic photos with less effort in taking several overlapping shots.

There may be no need for me to say it but I will anyway as an explanation. It is due to the limitation of my resources that I was not able to produce better examples of panorama. (I promise to upload better photographs when the time comes. J)

So here, for the sake of giving you an example:

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