Friday Fix It

Thought I would add a new feature to the Blog of Friday Fix it where I will share questions from students and professionals  on problems they have with Photoshop or photography.

One of the members of the Photowalk a couple weeks ago was asking about doing panorama shots. These are those long narrow shots of the landscape. With Photoshop you can stitch a number of images together and it does a great job of putting these images in order with a nice blending of exposure. However his question was when he has done this the image is very long and narrow.

I shared that a better way to get these shots is to turn the camera vertical with about 10% overlap at the edge. You will get more image and a better pano.  Also the best of all possible worlds is to shoot in manual mode so that you won’t get any changes in expousure or depth of field. But if you really want or have to shoot in program mode to do it with the A (or for Canon shooters AV) setting on. This is Aperture priority where you pick the f stop for the shot. This keeps your depth of field the same even if the shutter speed changes for a more balance expousure.

Have a great weekend