Smoky Mountains Sunrise Panorama: Here is another image from the Mentor Series Smoky Mountains. There are many viewpoints in the National Park. When we were photographing the sunrise on day 3, I took a series of five images for a panorama which I stitched together at home on my desktop computer. There are different programs for stitching such as Photoshop, Lightroom, or Windows Live Photo Gallery which is a free program from Microsoft. In order to get the images for a panorama, I turn off the auto focus and use manual exposure so the images are exposed the same. I always measure the exposure on the center image. If you forget to switch to manual, you will get different tones in each image and it will show in your panorama. I use a tripod and level the camera horizontally with a bubble level.

©Wolfgang Kaehler
Smoky Mountains Sunrise Panorama
Posted September 23, 2015 | Categories: Photography and Travel. Tags: landscape photography, Lightroom, Mentor Series, national parks, panorama photo, photography workshop, Photoshop, Smokey Mountains, sunrise, and Windows Live Photo Gallery.