Panoramic Shots of the Tatra Mountains

Last Saturday, I visited Poland's Tatra National Park with my camera. I took a variety of photos there, but in this post, I'd like to present something I've done for the first time – panoramas shot handheld and without a tripod. I've often taken wide panoramas, but always with my camera mounted on a tripod. This time, I didn't have one with me. However, I thought I'd try collecting photos for panoramas without a tripod.

I create panoramas by taking several vertical photos, shifting the field of view, while maintaining the rule that each subsequent photo should contain about one-third of the previous frame. This ensures that subsequent photos can overlap when stitched together in post-production. It's also important to maintain perfect level, which was a concern for me when the camera wasn't mounted on a tripod. However, I think the results are really good, even without a stable support.

The next step was to combine the photos using a dedicated panorama merging tool in Adobe Lightroom CC. I also did most of the editing in this program, with minor corrections in Photoshop, in which I also created the cover graphics.