Interestingly just when you think you have maxed out the possibilities of your gear there comes new ideas to shoot.
After taking hundreds of photos at the Step Wells of Ahmadabad, I through I was done and decided to pack up my gear. Just then my brother-in-law stepped in took my camera (which was fitted with a 35mm prime f/2 lens) set the aperture at f/2 and started shooting away. Initially I thought it was the frustration of the early morning heat that caused him to rapid fire shots at random. However, upon review I realized what happened - image presented below.
How to execute this shot:
Set your camera to manual, use "matrix metering" (as opposed to center weighted or spot metering) to get a general idea of the light intensity, set the aperture at the lowest possible number (in this case f/2), use a fairly wide lens (in this case 35mm), set the white balance (do not use auto as this will cause each shot to have a different color cast), keep your subject still. Now comes the hard part - focus on your subject and lock the focus (switch from auto to manual on the lens - this will prevent the focus from shifting for each shutter press), strategically start shooting your panorama - in this case the subject was shot first entirely (approx 4shots - top to bottom), then the camera was moved around from left to right - top to bottom to capture the balance of the scene. Finally, in Photoshop all the photos were merged and viola.
After taking hundreds of photos at the Step Wells of Ahmadabad, I through I was done and decided to pack up my gear. Just then my brother-in-law stepped in took my camera (which was fitted with a 35mm prime f/2 lens) set the aperture at f/2 and started shooting away. Initially I thought it was the frustration of the early morning heat that caused him to rapid fire shots at random. However, upon review I realized what happened - image presented below.
How to execute this shot:
Set your camera to manual, use "matrix metering" (as opposed to center weighted or spot metering) to get a general idea of the light intensity, set the aperture at the lowest possible number (in this case f/2), use a fairly wide lens (in this case 35mm), set the white balance (do not use auto as this will cause each shot to have a different color cast), keep your subject still. Now comes the hard part - focus on your subject and lock the focus (switch from auto to manual on the lens - this will prevent the focus from shifting for each shutter press), strategically start shooting your panorama - in this case the subject was shot first entirely (approx 4shots - top to bottom), then the camera was moved around from left to right - top to bottom to capture the balance of the scene. Finally, in Photoshop all the photos were merged and viola.
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