Panoramic Views Part 1
Creating has a panoramic view was usually left up to the professionals in the past. Wide angle lens, large format camera; but with today’s photo editing software you can create these shots yourself. A simple technique and a tripod can help you with this.
You will be taking lateral shots which will require you to move your camera to different areas. And then later you will blend these shots together with your photo editing software.
First find the shot that you want to take set up your tripod to stabilize your camera and get the exact height on every shot. Look at you shots and determine where the edge of the shots is at, a scenic marker like a rock, tree, or something that is not going to move on you.
Next snap off a couple shots
Pick up your tripod and without making any adjustments move down to another location a few feet away you will want to overlap your scene; using your scenic maker as a guide snap off a few more shots. 
Most panoramas are done with 2 or 3 photos blended or stitched together.
This method is helpful to me in Real Estate Photography where I can get the whole area into one photo without loosing any detail with my wide angle lens. Sometimes I will use up to 6 Photos 3 on top and 3 on bottom to blend.
Tomorrow I will talk about how to blend these 4 photos together to make together to make that panoramic view.
Here are some other helpful links on this subject.
