Panorama of Mountains in Utah, USA

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This is a tripple shot of some mountains here in Utah, USA

I attemped to place this myself and need to know if I should adjust color first so that I can get all the shots the same color so I dont have a light section?




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Michael

A very good shot opportunity here, but you seem to have a problem with exposure in the middle - it's not colour as you suggested. When I do panoramas, I put the camera on manual focus (so it doesn't change for each shot). For exposure I use exposure lock so that all the shots have the same exposure. Can you do that on your Sony? What program did you use to edity the shots?

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Rob,
Thanks for the input. I believe that I can do the exposure lock I will have to pull the book out again and make sure I know how. I keep the book close by all the time. I used photoshop cs looks like version 8. I am reading all the how to files and info on the web that I can to learn this software.
Manual focus is that so that you get the depth as I was at an angle from the mountain range I was shooting.

Thanks for your input
Michael

The manual focus is so you get the same focus on all the shots. As you pan round taking the shots if it's on auto-focus you may end up with different focus on each shot as it could pick up different objects in each shot which could be at different distances. This is more important at closer range, and probably wouldn't have made much difference here, but it is a good practise to always use manual focus. Set the manual focus for the first shot, and set auto exposure (however you do it on your camera)take the shot, then pan round for second with auto exposure still set, take second shot etc.

Always use a tripod if you can. Always have about 20% overlap between shots. Avoid fast moving objects.

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Rob,

Sounds good I will have to give these a try when I go out again. I am glad there are people here who are willing to help us who are learning how to get better photos.

Again Thanks for the help
Michael