Wide panorama's are all about horizontal lines for me, taking what might have otherwise a compositional impediment and making it into a bend that wraps around the range here demonstrated that point. This is a type of what I call a "Forced Perspective", when lenses and/or stitching imparts a specific and powerful design characteristic into the scene. It's hard to pre-visualize these in the field at first, but once you get the hang of it it's easier to lend a particular shape to the landscape this way. This a point I was teaching on this morning when these wicked Lenny's rolled in. The lenticular clouds are so predictable here I can often see them coming multiple days in advance, and we truly got some great ones this year. Of course at the moment the Lenticulars came around I wasn't anywhere near something that would have made an obviously strong foreground (like the equally amazing bubbles we had here, for example), but that's where knowledge of the pano technique and about 4 hours of processing work comes in, ha! We actually processed the finished image on video as a group and for the most part I am pretty happy with it so I am sharing it here (not the video, just the image). This is 7 vertical 14mm frames stitched horizontally. Thanks... sorry I couldn't resist on the title. I think ultimately it's going to need a few more of the type of refinements I don't apply before posting here though. There's a few areas of overly leaning trees from the stitch and even perhaps a sharpening edge halo or dust spot somewhere - gasp! Sorry about that. You'll just have to see the print. It'll get there.
