Shooting panoramas is an absolute blast and with Lightroom’s photo merge tool its easier than ever. You can break free from the confines of the standard format picture and show the entire picture as you see it. In addition to the artistic there also numerous practical applications for shooting panoramas like creating high megapixel images for large prints or for making your 24mm lens shoot even “wider”.
Let’s look at a few situations on why you might want to shoot a pano. Say you want to photograph an entire range of peaks but in order to get all everything in your frame you have to zoom out very wide and in the process the mountains that loom so large in your view become small and lost in the scene. Instead, try zooming into the scene and then shoot a series of overlapped images and finally merge them in the editing software of your liking.
