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magnum808
18th of November 2008 (Tue), 02:45
Taken with an xti and 17-40mm lens.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m289/chardmy/IMG_2508.jpg
rraman
18th of November 2008 (Tue), 09:32
Good panorama, a couple of suggestions...

The image does not look very sharp. Since it's taken in daylight it should not be camera shake - what aperture did you use?

You should also try applying a bit more USM which should help imo.
magnum808
18th of November 2008 (Tue), 12:19
F14
ISO 400
1/500 sec
Robert_Lay
18th of November 2008 (Tue), 22:01
I know how tempting it is to tilt the camera up and force that horizon down below the middle, but as you can see, it causes converging verticals. My suggestion would be to keep your camera level, avoiding the converging verticals and then crop whatever foreground you don't need.
Bill Boehme
18th of November 2008 (Tue), 22:17
I know how tempting it is to tilt the camera up and force that horizon down below the middle, but as you can see, it causes converging verticals. My suggestion would be to keep your camera level, avoiding the converging verticals and then crop whatever foreground you don't need.

It also takes some discipline to keep that in mind as an image is being composed.

I kicked myself recently for not keeping that in mind as I let myself get so interested in the activity that I completely ignored that and some other common sense guidelines about composition. I guess that is evidence that one can never get too old to make a mess of things.

This image isn't bad ... just needs slight improvement in the camera tilt department ... mine, on the other hand, were real stinkers.

F14
ISO 400
1/500 sec

I think that I can figure out how you selected the exposure settings, but for the lens that you used, I would have made different choices. I think that you could have easily shot this wide open, but certainly f/5.6 would have been the smallest aperture necessary. The bright daylight also makes this definitely an ISO 100 shot. This would leave the shutter speed roughly the same which is actually much faster than necessary.
magnum808
19th of November 2008 (Wed), 17:59
I went with f14 to try and bring the sharpness up a bit. I find 17-40mm lense is a little soft at anything below f8.