First Panorama

I am not sure why, but I have never really attempted to make panoramas. When I left for my trip to the Smokies last April I had decided that the one new thing that I definitely wanted to try was making a panorama. And so I did, with the following result:

Interestingly, for some reason, the Photomerge command in Photoshop CS6 simply would not merge the three pictures from which the panorama is constructed. Which means I had to try another program. I downloaded the free trial version of PTGui and it worked like a charm the first time with no problems, so I sprung for the paid version in order to be able to merge them without a watermark.

Interestingly, even with the use of a level panning head, I still had to trim about an inch off the image following the stitching because of unevenness in lining up the photos.

The final photograph, composed of three separate images, was made at an overlook in Great Smoky Mountains National Park at sunset. If printed at 240 pixels per inch, the final print would be approximately 16 inches high by 51 inches long!