- So I have my tripod set to go.
I've chosen this spot on the bricks.
And the next thing to do is to choose my exposures.
I like to do that with the camera off the tripod
when possible, and I can use the spot meter
to aim and find the exposure for my highlights,
and then for my shadows.
So starting with the shadows.
The meter's telling me around a tenth of a second.
We'll do a little test shot
and just see how it looks on the back using the histogram.
Same thing with the highlights.
Peering up into the sky,
just finding a spot between the trees.
Tells me it's pretty fast, about a six fortieth maybe.
And again, I'm gonna take a quick check on the LCD.
So I'm going to set up some bracketing here.
I'm not sure if it's really necessary.
I could choose kind of a middle exposure,
and just process the one exposure all the way around.
But by bracketing, I ensure that I have everything.
And if I wanna use a single exposure later, I can.
So my camera told me a tenth of a second
was the slowest shutter speed.
So I'm gonna go ahead and find the middle
between the tenth and the six fortieth.
So counting, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
It's about seven stops in dynamic range,
so we're really gonna catch it all.
I'm going to set it in the middle.
So I'm set for seven images at one stop spacing.
It's going to capture them all for each one of my shots,
making it the panorama.