Photographs in panorama format

Sometimes it is difficult to capture the grandeur of, for example, a landscape in a single photo in 3×2 or 4×3 format. Very often, a photo in panorama format—for me, that means any photo with an aspect ratio greater than two—can provide a solution. You have more space on the sides to include everything you want in the photo.

I take many photos of this type, usually by combining two or more photos. This technique is described in detail in various articles on the internet (see, for example, here). Occasionally, I create a widescreen photo by simply cropping bottom and/or top of a photo. However, this can have the disadvantage that the pixel count in the final photo is on the low side.

Sometimes widescreen photos turn out very long and narrow. Usually, I don’t find that very appealing. While these types of ultra panoramas do show a lot horizontally, in the vertical direction the photo often appears too cramped. I therefore usually limit myself to photos with a aspect ratio smaller than 3. A special case are the 360-degree panoramas I take with a fisheye lens.