Pano shot

Another beauty Mike.  Did you crop the image to a pano, or do you plan these and stitch several together?  I do some of both, normally I try to stitch them together so I have a bigger file for printing if I know that's what I want.  This works pretty good for me most of the time.

Travis

Thanks Folks,

I need to TRY the stitching yet, this is cropped.
The clouds were moving rather quickly and the lighting was changing just as fast, I think I would have not been successful last night.

Thanks for the reminder, I'll have to give it a go.
I don't know if anyone has the canon software, but, it is really good for pano stitching.

I have never tried the Canon software.  I use Photoshop and have gotten good results.  Maybe I'll do a little workshop on it later tonight if I get some time.  Marian, you are like an art historian, aren't you?

Mike, I have tried to do  stitched images with moving clouds and light conditions.  Surprisingly, I have had a couple turn out, but I have had several that didn't as well.  I understand your decision to not even attempt it.  Usually, if I'm in that situation I will try and get one I know I can crop to a pano, and then try to do a quick series in case I decide I want to play with it also.  Just a suggestion.

There are actually tripod head setups that are supposed to be used for stitching techniques because the plane and rotation points of your camera and lens are supposed to be precisely controlled.  I will try and address those issues to the best of my ability in my workshop as well.

Sorry for getting off track.

Travis

My best panoramic was one that I hadn't shot with the intention of being a panoramic.  I went out and shot a series just to scout the location with the intent of coming back later with a tripod, spirit level, and better film.  I went back 3 times with all my gear before I decided that I liked the clouds of the scout images better and stitched those together instead. 

A couple weeks ago I downloaded an open source program called Hugin that appears to do a pretty good job of stitching, although I've only run one set of images through it and didn't spend enough time to do it well. 

Haha...I just love to look at old paintings. It's a good way to learn composition and color.