3. Spin your camera on the tripod slightly so that it is framing the next part of the
scene. Make sure, however, that 30 percent of the ?¬? rst image now also appears in the
second image. It is this overlap that will allow your computer to line up the image
into one seamless panorama.
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4. Continue turning the camera and taking additional pictures until you reach the
opposite edge of your panorama. Or if you are taking a 360-degree panorama,
continue taking pictures until you go all the way around and reach your starting
point with a suitable overlap.
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Add Lenses for Different Perspectives
As you??™ve already seen, you can attach additional lenses to many digital cameras to enhance
your photographic options. In Chapter 6, for instance, you saw how to add close-up lenses to
shoot macro photographs.
Your options don??™t end there. There are add-on lenses that cover the spectrum of photographic
possibilities. Even if your camera only comes with a 2X zoom, you can probably enhance that
with a set of telephoto, wide-angle, and close-up lenses.
The first thing you??™ll need to know is how you will be attaching additional lenses to your
camera. Typically, there are three ways of doing this:
?– Threads Some digital camera lenses are threaded at the end.
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