A little short on wide angle? Make a panorama

Saturday 11 July 2026, 14:07 by Nando Harmsen | 971 views | 2 comments

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There you are. A beautiful view with lovely lines in the landscape. You just don't have enough wide angle. Make a panorama. It's a simple and effective solution.

Sometimes you don't have a wide-angle lens to hand. Perhaps you've gone out light with just one lens. Or your wide angle isn't wide enough. A panorama is the solution.

Damn. Those lovely lines don't fit in the frame. If only I had a wider angle. But wait... there is a solution.
You no longer need a tripod these days. Make sure you are standing steadily, and take two or three photos of the view. Aim for about 30% overlap. More is no problem, less is.

Three photos. With overlap. You can make a panorama from them, so the lines in the landscape are shown better.
Combining those two or three photos is easy with software. Everything is aligned perfectly and you have the whole view in a beautiful panoramic photo. The panorama also has a higher resolution.

The result. I haven't used the full width of the panorama. Just what I needed to do justice to the lines in the landscape.
There are a few things to keep in mind. If you want a somewhat wider panorama, make sure you hold the camera vertically. If the panorama consists of no more than two or three photos, this often isn't necessary.

Make the panorama a little wider than necessary. This leaves you room to make the exact crop during post-processing. If the panorama is too tight, you may lose parts of your image in the corners of the photo.

Are you including a foreground that is close to you? Then you need to correct the parallax by rotating around the nodal point. In that case, a nodal slide and tripod are necessary.

Finally, a handy tip. Do you want to know where your panorama starts and/or ends? First take a photo of your hand before you start. Then you'll know where the first photo begins. You can also take one after the panorama.

Quickly marking the starting point of the panorama with a photo. That's always hand-y

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