-The aim of landscape is to evoke an emotion in the viewer.
-It has been used for a myriad of purposes: the church use landscapes to convey their message, greenpeace use landscapes to inspire people to want to help protect it.
-Photographers have used nature for their own profit
-Your aim is to inspire the viewer into reacting to the image to be in awe of the beauty (wishing they were there)
-You can just buy a panorama camera. it has a swing lens, a flat black r a rotational camera that can be used to take panoramas
-Medium format and large format cameras can also be adapted to shoot panoramas
Paralax
-Exposure, it is imperative that if you are intending to stitch a panorama that you use the same aperture and shutter speed for every image to be stitched.
-Moving objects in any of the frames will hinder the stitching software. Shooting in one frame is also a solution
-Try and eliminate all movement before you shoot. As a last resort use photo shop to remove the offending object, however photoshop can sometimes just work with the movement and fix it up.
The golden hour: http://www.blogger.com/goog_1403914969
Calculates the 'golden hour'
"In photography, the golden hour (sometimes known as magic hour, especially in cinematography) is the first and last hour of sunlight during the day,[1] when a specific photographic effect is achieved due to the quality of the light.
Typically, lighting is softer (more diffuse) and warmer in hue, and shadows are longer. When the Sun is near the horizon, sunlight travels through more of the atmosphere, reducing the intensity of the direct light, so that more of the illumination comes from indirect light from the sky (Thomas 1973, 9–13), reducing the lighting ratio. More blue light is scattered, so that light from the Sun appears more reddish. In addition, the Sun's small angle with the horizon produces longer shadows.
“Hour” is used here quite loosely. The character of the lighting is determined by the Sun's altitude, and the time for the Sun to move from the horizon to a specified altitude depends on a location's latitude and the time of year[2] (Bermingham 2003, 214). In Los Angeles, California, at an hour after sunrise or an hour before sunset, the Sun has an altitude of about 10°–12°.[3] For a location closer to the equator, the altitude is greater (or the time less), and for a location farther from the equator, the altitude is less (or the time greater). For a location sufficiently far from the equator, the Sun may not reach an altitude of 10°, and the golden hour lasts for the entire day in certain seasons."
"In the middle of the day, the bright overhead Sun can create too-bright highlights and dark shadows. The degree to which overexposure can occur varies because different types of film and digital cameras have different dynamic ranges. This harsh-lighting problem is particularly important in portrait photography, where a fill flash is often necessary to balance lighting across the subject's face or body, filling in strong shadows that are usually considered undesirable."
-Photoshop stitching is really good, it can correct subject movement, parallax, ghosting.
-Parallax gets worse the closer you are to the subject
-Portrait panoramas are pretty Good, they have more room
-Photoshop cant correct differing focal points so you have to use manual focus and get it right in camera
-Expose every frame at the same exposure and aperture (use full manual)
-DONT USE AUTO WHITE BALANCE
-MAKE SURE TRIPOD IS LEVEL
-WIDE ANGLE LENS = BARREL DISTORTION
-Websites can tell you where the nodal point for each lens is:
http://archive.bigben.id.au/tutorials/360/photo/nodal.html
Workshop at Mt Stromlo
HDR Screw up#1
Can't see it as much in the smaller picture, but I had a fair bit of ghosting in this image which is a shame because otherwise it would have looked pretty cool. Gotta get that tripod.
HDR Screw Up#2
Obviously didnt line up the photos correctly, so lots of ghosting when the HDR process was finished. However, I actually like the look of this photo, so I added a rainbow gradient and used a 'hue' blending mode to make it look a bit more surrealistic. Its kind of early-morning spookyish.
HDR
Did this one properly. It looks good, the contrast is way cooler on this combined version then the photos are by themselves.
Panorama Screw Up
Not sure exactly what happened here, but I think I must have misaligned the photos or something because I got these weird effects, especially the one of Amie's hand morphing into the tarmac? Looks kind of cool, but not exactly what I was looking for. Oh well, this was my first time doing a vertical panorama (for some reason it hadn't occurred to me before!!) so it was a good learning experience anyway.
Panorama
totally love the concrete here. Its more of a panorama detail shot because it doesn't have an overall view of the structure, but I still like it.
What not to do (used: auto white balance, auto aperture, auto focus)
This is a demo of what happens when you use auto white balance and auto apeture, the different exposures aren't drastically obvious, but you can still see them. It was also on auto focus, so each photo is focused differently. Yuck. 
Another Panorama
Done property, everything on manual. Much more control, and obviously a better result.
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