TAKING PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHS
Have you ever wondered about those wide panoramic images and how they were captured when you personally don’t seem to be able to fit the entire scene in your camera? The trick to this is relatively easy but the method itself to create the images does require a little bit of technique and accuracy. Take the view of Copenhagen as seen from top of the “Church of our Saviour”. The view is not only enormously breath taking but also
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incredibly widespread and no wideangle lens will be able to fit the entire view. Only a few years back capturing a panoramic image was a very technical task and required speciality tools and software to accomplish. However, as software has become more powerful and cameras easy to handle - this has become a doable task for anyone. First of all it is important to set the camera to a manual exposure (see
