High-Resolution Panoramic Photography

Digital Panoramic Photographs

I got my first digital camera in 2004 as a means of gathering subject material. At the same time I made my first visit to southern Utah, where I fell in love with the incredible landscapes there. Since then I have regularly traveled the southwest, camping and taking photographs. About 2015, I started experimenting with multi-row panoramas and gradually started doing those almost exclusively.

Making a Panorama

Usually I shoot 2-3 rows of images stacked one above the other, trying to make sure there is plenty of room for the sky and foreground. This results in 12 to 18 high-resolution images of a scene, overlapped so they can be “stitched” together digitally. If the composition calls for it, I will use more rows to make the panorama taller.

Shooting a panorama requires more technical skill, forethought and imagination than shooting a single photo. This challenge is one of the things that attracted me to panoramic photography, in addition to the stunning detail and the flexibility of format that is possible by combining multiple images.