Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: pco98 on May 30, 2008, 07:27:49 am
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Have done some more panoramic shooting and a couple more questions have come up.
When shooting a wide panoramic landscape on a tripod my starting horizon point is level but as I rotate on the tripod for further images it becomes skewered. Should I be compensating for this by re-straightening when required? Or is there something wrong with my tripod technique?
Ross
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The plate on the tripod where the head attaches must be level, it's not enough to simply level the camera since without a lever base of rotation you'll get the problem you describe. You can either adjust the legs or get another gadget, like:
http://acratech.net/miva/merchant.mv?Scree...ategory_Code=LB (http://acratech.net/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=AOS&Category_Code=LB)
I also have a small bubble level that slides into the camera hot shoe to level the camera (both base and camera need to be level).