Camera skills Scenery exposed
Each individual exposure was 20 seconds long. This was done to capture movement in the clouds and soften the sea
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Focusing Focus just as you would if you were shooting single-frame images, and then set the camera into manual focus mode lest autofocus starts kicking in just as you pan across the scene, as inconsistent focusing can – and often does – have the effect of ruining the final panorama.
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Exposure Exposure must be consistent across all the frames you shoot. You can either base the exposure on the correct exposure for the centre of the panorama or meter each end of the scene and find a compromise between the two. Either way, set your camera to Manual mode (M).
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30 per cent overlap Make sure that there is an overlap of about one third as you pan. An easy mistake to make when shooting panoramas for the first time is to start the next frame right where the previous one left off, but this doesn't leave enough material for your software work with.
Outdoor landscape and nature photography
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