God stopped by Newport today and I got off this shot. Okay, that’s not true. I actually took five exposures and stitched them together. Sunset photographs are passé I suppose but I’m glad I caught it. Many thanks to the “Big Guy.”

Note: Please click on the image to see the pop-up pano.

I love panoramas because there’s something a little magical about them to me.  Perhaps because they’re a better substitute of human vision than more standard sized images because of the wide field of view.  Whatever the reason, you’ll likely see more of them here in the next 12 months.  By the way, click on the thumbnail image above in the post to get a pop-up of the full size image.

This panorama was created from 6 images shot with generous overlap with my D70 hand-held and then stitched in Photoshop CS4.  Here’s how Photoshop divides up the images which is surprising but yields a nice smooth result.  I have access to a pano head thanks to my friend at Dimension Three but I may never need to borrow it again.

Unfortunately the lighting is less than I hoped for.  Some foreground interest would be helpful also.