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David Maurier on the North Fork Smith

Nikon D700, Sigma 170-500mm @ 360mm 1/800 f6.3 ISO 800

   In all walks of life we often  find out what works and reiterate. This is especially true in all forms of photography, figuring out what angles, settings and lighting tends to work best for us and sticking with them. In that process of repetition, creativity can easily be lost and photographers often slip into just buying more gear to allow them new angles. But what about the new with the old? The above shot is something I'd only done once before, and a rare technique for action sports. The image is a six shot panoramic stitched together. Because it was all shoot in telephoto it gives the image different depth than zooming out and cropping would have done, as well as giving a larger final image.
   When shooting a panoramic in action like this it's important to shoot a little wider than you might imagine. Keeping the camera perfectly level is impossible without a tripod and later on cropping will need to happen. In a horizontal panoramic like this it's also best to shoot vertically, and you must also shoot everything in all manual so exposure and white balance match while stitching.