Shoot photos for a PANORAMA When you shoot photos that you will later combine using a digital stitching application, you need to overlap each photo by 1/3 to 1/2 so that you can match and blend the images seamlessly. You also need to be careful to maintain the same exposure throughout your photos. Avoid shooting moving subjects such as clouds or ocean waves that make photos too different to be combined. Finally, you should always use a tripod. These four photographs of a country landscape were taken with a camera mounted on a tripod with a head that allows panning. Did You Know? You can use the Adobe Photoshop Elements Photomerge feature to combine multiple photos into a single, large photo for making large prints. If your digital camera does not have enough pixels to make a quality print in the size that you want, you can shoot several photos and combine them with Photomerge. Did You Know? You can take multiple photos of vertical subjects and create vertical panoramas as easily as you can create horizontal panoramas. Good subjects for vertical panoramas include tall trees and buildings. Shooting from a distance with a telephoto lens can help minimize unwanted perspective distortion caused by using a lens with a shorter focal length.
As long as photographs have been taken, it has always been a challenge for photographers to capture the beauty found in wide-sweeping scenes. A wide-angle lens can capture more of a scene than a shorter focal length lens, but wide-angle lenses tend to add unwanted distortion to the photos, and they still do not capture as much of a scene as you often want. Using one of the digital stitching applications or a feature such as Adobe Photoshop Elements Photomerge, you can shoot and later combine multiple photos into a single, long vertical or horizontal panoramic photo.