Panoramic pictures are something that have fascinated me for some time. I live in the west where most of the time, the vistas I see cannot be captured on one frame, even if I am using a wide angle lens. Programs such as Photoshop Elements from Adobe make it very easy. The version I use is version 7.
My family was recently on a trip to California and a storm was forecast to move in one the morning we were leaving. Having to chain up going over the Sierras is not fun. If we left too late, I might have had to chain up multiple times going through Nevada on I-80. Needless to say, we left early in the morning. After crossing the summit on the eastern side of the Sierras there is a lake called Donner Lake. We were making good time so we stopped and drove along the shore of the lake until we found an access point. It was a dark heavily clouded morning. I took a number of pictures, and made sure that on seven of them I overlapped each side by at least 20%. I then used Photoshop Elements to stitch them together. Here are the seven individual pictures.
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You will notice, especially on the left side of the panoramic picture that the top of the mountain is cut off. This is because as Photoshop Elements fits things together the center is narrower in height than the sides images are. When you crop the image, you tend to lose the tops and the bottoms of the beginning and ending pictures. So when you take images for combining in a panoramic remember to leave plenty of space for cropping.
The pictures were taken with a Nikon D90 at F/13 at 1/45s.
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