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Greater than the sum of its parts.
The small town of Killaloe, on the banks of the river Shannon in County Clare, Ireland, is a gem of a place, and when Liz and I stay in this part of the world we always spend an afternoon here, just walking around enjoying the scenery and the relaxed pace of life.
But I've always found Killaloe to be photographically frustrating, as while it looks like it should be a photogenic sort of place, I've never been able to point my camera in a particular direction and find a composition that I've been satisifed with, one that would encapsulate the atmosphere of the town in a 3x2 aspect ratio rectangle.
Then I'd take my eye away from the viewfinder and there it would be again - the view I wanted - but certainly not fitting into my camera's normal field of view.
Time for a panorama then.
My technique for shooting and processing panoramas has been refined, through trial and error, to the point where I'm confident I can achieve a decent result in most circumstances, the exception being when there's too much of an exposure difference across the scene for the camera to cope with.
But that certainly wasn't the case here, with reasonably soft, even lighting across the entire view.
I must admit I got carried away when shooting the individual exposures for this final image, and covered a far wider angle of view that I had origially planned, well over 180 degrees in fact, but the end result was worth it, with a final stitched composition that finally showed Killaloe in all its gentle glory.
Filename - killaloe panorama 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 70mm
Exposure - 1/160 sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland
This image - 1200x176px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom and PhotoShop CC
Comments - Panorama made up of multiple exposures, stitched together
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