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GigPan Epic Pro - Panoramas made easy! - part 6 of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

by Mike McNamee Published 01/08/2013

On reflection, it was too ambitious to carry the zooms on the off chance of getting some macro or wide-angle landscapes - having chosen pans as the objective we should have stuck rigidly to that. The other notion which has become obvious over the testing of the past couple of months is that if you are working with a companion it is better to split the gear and take just one camera rig with spare Flash cards if both of you wish to shoot. Each taking your own camera gear is a luxury too far!

Our chosen location was the shore of Cwm Idwal a mile or so above Ogwen Cottage, Snowdonia. The path up to the cwm is well surfaced and a very moderate gradient. Once there, we dumped the gear and walked about a bit trying to decide the best location. This is where we made our second crucial error. The image above is un-cropped so as to demonstrate the dominating effect of the paving just in front of the camera. Viewed by eye it looked OK but in the finished pan it is a disaster - too large and too bright. The second lesson we learned is that the background is relatively insensitive to the location chosen (to within tens of metres) but the foreground is influenced on a scale of metres.

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