Todays panorama

 This is a panorama that I created today. Cloudy days are the best for landscape photography.

Pictures taken with a Canon R6 w/EF100-400L.

Click the picture to appreciate all the details.

Stitching pictures in Lightroom Classic

 In a previous post I mentioned that is possible to create high resolution and wide angle picture with a zoom lens by using the panorama merging option of Lightroom Classic. Here is how Adobe explains the process. 

The process is very simple once you have mastered it. The best process to learn is trial and error. My tips are, set the aperture in your camera to f/11. Try to overlap the pictures that you are taking on around 30 to 40%. I have tried to center focus in each picture I take or focus in the center of what will become the resultant picture and without changing the focus taking all the pictures. Both ways have worked for me and all depend on what you want the end result to look like. If you focus in each picture the end result will be sharp from corner to corner including the center. Keep in mind that using this method, if you are not taking sufficient pictures you may end with zones in the merged picture that are out of focus, specially if the aperture using is not small enough (f/2.8 is larger than f/11, keep that in mind).

Shooting landscape with a zoom lens

 When you are out there shooting wildlife is impossible not to notice the beauty of the landscape surrounding you and having a camera you will feel the need to go and shoot some pictures. The problem is that all you are carrying is your zoom lens. is it possible to use a zoom lens for landscape?

The answer is yes. 

One of the problems that you are facing is the limitations getting the view that you get when using a wide angle lens such as a Canon RF 16mm or a Canon RF 28mm. While  wide angle lenses are considered the ideal lenses for landscape photography you can still "mimic" that view using a zoom lens. Below you can see an example.

If you click on this picture and zoom to check the details, you will notice that this picture is sharp from the closest to the further point.  This was achieved by stitching multiple pictures together using the panorama option in Lightroom Classic. 

Here are another examples of a pictures created with this technique.  

Using a zoom lens you can focus into a particular point of your landscape and still get a good picture. See below picture taking with an EF100-400L using an adapted to be used in a Canon R6.

A zoom lens should not be considered a limitation to take landscape pictures.