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Well...(and that is a very nice pano) it is getting down to honing the details....at least for me. I will not shoot a pano unless I can forsee the composition as well.....it takes more time....and a LOT more thought....but seeing the diffrence it makes in the end result....the comments I get when it all comes together.....it makes it worth the diffrence. And it makes my work an easier sell over those who dont take composition as seriously.

And there IS a composition in every shot.....even one with more details.

That is MY challenge to anyone comfortable where they are shooting panos. :~)

Roman

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Roman,

Again I agree. In fact I think that is a challenge for all types of photography and is what makes the difference between a good image and an outstanding image.

For me the purpose of taking panos is not primarily to produce beautiful landscapes for sale. I guess most of my pano work is really my attempt to capture the scope of a place I visit and allow me to re-experience it in the image. The pano in the OP of this thread was really taken to record the scope and dare I say grandeur of the Sonora pass. I know there are better compositions within the image, but they would focus down on compositional elements and the scope would be lost. I guess that's what I was trying to get at about scope often working against composition. As with all photography, the image is always guided by the purpose for which it is intended. Certainly if I was going for landscape composition this image would be more of what I would have been after.