Your wide-angle lens isn’t wide enough? No problem!
It’s a common frustration in photography: your widest lens just isn’t wide enough. You might have an 18mm lens but wish you had a 12mm. This occurrence is more prevalent than you think especially for crop sensor cameras, APS-C and micro 4/3. In this blog, I will show you a practical workaround—shooting multiple images and stitching them together in post-processing.
Here’s a simple approach to get it right:
1. Mount your camera on a level tripod (or as level as possible).
2. Switch your camera to vertical (portrait) orientation.
3. Shoot a series of images, overlapping each one by 25% to 50%.
Later, in post-processing, stitch these images into a single panoramic shot. The result is a much wider field of view image than any single frame.
Image showing the camera on a level tripod in a vertical (portrait) mode
Image showing four different portrait mode images (1 to 4) which will be stitched into a single image as a pano
Final panoramic image which covers a significantly wider angle of view than a single image from your lens