Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

As usual, clicken to embiggen. Both images are about 40" wide.



This is a six image stitch taken at the Cloudcroft Mexican Canyon Trestle Overlook. Normally I'm shooting from the overlook facing west, taking sunset shots or stormy shots. Today I wanted to do a panorama encompassing 180 degrees! This first image was shot with my Canon 6D with a 17-40 zoom at 17mm in portrait (vertical) orientation and consists of six images. Photoshop missed out on integrating it well, I have some other panoramic software that I'm going to try and see if it might fill in the steel rail at the bottom of the frame better.

So the pier that I'm on overlooks a drop of a hundred feet or more and the mesh are at 90 degree angles - nothing is curved, it's a distortion of the lens and Photoshop trying to fit everything together. But it did fit both the trestle and White Sands together in one image! Even if you have to look kinda hard to see White Sands on the right side there....



This was shot with my Lumix ZS70 in panoramic mode. The camera locks itself in widest-angle lens setting, takes a series of images and stitches them together as a JPEG. I do have to say that it does a very credible job. I would be more impressed if I could hold it vertically and take a panorama that way to get more coverage.

If you'd like to see how everything actually relates to everything else, you can look at this link to Google Maps and zoom out to see where the trestle is and where I'm shooting down the valley. Cloudcroft is at about 9,000', and the valley floor is about 4,500'. And the mountains across the valley? That's maybe 70 miles away, give or take.