#SPECTERRAS PHOTO PANORAMA STITCHER ISO#
#SPECTERRAS PHOTO PANORAMA STITCHER SERIES#

#SPECTERRAS PHOTO PANORAMA STITCHER ISO#

That said if you are careful in-camera, and manually select all your settings from ISO to exposure and white balance, you can get by with JPGs. This allows me greater flexibility in post-processing to make sure that exposures, white balance, and other settings match from one image to the next. I shoot all panorama images in RAW format. They can cause gradations across an image that are impossible to work with later, so get that thing off your camera. Remove all filters from your lens, especially polarizers. Pick a standard lens or a short telephoto something between 40mm and 100mm will work well, though I’ve occasionally gone as high as 200mm if the situation warrants. The optical distortion inherent in these lenses tends to mess with the process of stitching them together. Making a panorama isn’t the time to use a wide angle lens.

#SPECTERRAS PHOTO PANORAMA STITCHER SERIES#

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.

Specterras photo panorama stitcher