photo tips

Tip # 6

Big Skies, Wide Views, and Megapixel Images
- Darwin Wiggett

Interesting skies are important ingredients for successful landscape photos. But
skies are so big that usually you can't get everything into one photo. The solution?
Do a 'sky stitch'. In photo 1, I used a 24mm lens to capture the rocks, reflection and
horizon. But the sky above the scene also deserved inclusion in the composition. So
I tilted the camera up and photographed the sky making sure there was overlap in
the two images (photo 2). Then in Photoshop I simply stitched the two images
together to give me a big square image with a super wide view and big pixel
dimensions (photo 3).

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Rocks and reflection (Photo 1)

Sky stitch (Photo 3)

All Photos -
Location: Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia
Camera: Canon EOS-1ds Mark 11
Lens: Canon EF 24mm f3.5L TSE lens at f11
Filter: Singh-Ray Warming Polarizer Plus

Horizon (Photo 2)