Techniques & Workflows
Why Your Panoramas Fall Apart (And the Field Workflow That Fixed Mine)
There’s a ridge above the Deschutes River I’ve been hiking to for years. The view runs maybe 200 degrees on a clear morning, high desert scrub to the left, Cascade peaks anchored to the right, and a band of soft pre-dawn light cutting through the middle. My widest lens captures maybe a third of it. The first few times I shot there, I tried to decide which third mattered most. Eventually I stopped deciding and started stitching, and that changed how I think about the whole landscape in front of me, not just the slice I can stuff into one frame.