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Tips for shooting panoramas

Tips for shooting panoramas

- These days, most people have some experience shooting photographic panoramas. I'm talking about shooting a series of frames and then using software to stitch them together. Even if you've never done that with your normal camera, you might have done it with your phone, and nowadays, phones have automatic stitching built in, so it's very easy. When you're working with your SLR, it's a little bit different, I'm going to just go over a couple of quick panorama tips, in case you're new to panoramas, or have been frustrated with the panoramas you've been shooting. So I'm standing out here in the desert, around this incredible oasis. Just behind us over there, there's a natural spring that's pumping out a tremendous amount of water, and somewhere along the line, some palm trees got planted. In the distance down there, I've got a body of water, I couldn't begin to tell you which one that was, I haven't looked at a map in awhile, and some nice mountains, and clouds behind it. So I would like…

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