Most panoramas are horizontally oriented, taht is, much wider than high.
At Bob's Marsh*, I took a couple of panoramas. One is rather
conventional. Using 35mm FL vertically, it captures all the foreground I
want and doesn't loose. Standing on the bridge, rather than at water's
edge, I was presented with a much greater vertical vista, what with all
the detail in the water almost at my feet.
I took a series of shots at 17 mm and vertically oriented. Combined and
cropped into a rectangular panorama, they pretty closely approximate the
FOV of an 11 mm lens on FF, although without the edge distortion. I did
correct linear distortion with PTLens in each individual image before
combining them.
The problem is, absent a way of hanging myself out in thin air a few
feet from the bridge, I get the bridge abutments in the picture. The
left one is no problem, being dark and small. But the right one is large
and in direct sun, giving a distracting focal point in the corner.
My first thought was to crop it out, which gave me a choice of
horizontal or squarish image. When I asked Carol which she preferred,
she said neither, she preferred it without cropping, saying something
like "It's beautiful, the concrete is part of it and that's OK."
Hmmmmm. I kept looking at it. I can see her point, but can't stand the
bright corner. So I tried just bringing down the brightness of the
concrete. Here are all the alternatives. What do you prefer?
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/MPhotos/Maine/BobsMarsh/_MG_7940-44.htm>
Moose
* Previously known as Bass Harbor Marsh
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