Back in the summer of 2003 I was camping at about 5 or 6 NP and NM in CO. & UT. Canyonlands NP is divided basically into two sections for those with campers...Island in the Sky and Needles. I camped at both sections for about a week each and then over to Arches for another week.
I quickly found that when out west the vast expanses of landscapes that trying to use an extreme wide angle lens to get as much into the frame as possible just did not work for me. The perspective from near to far was overly exaggerated. So when confronted with such as wide panoramic image such as this one I found it far better to set my camera's lens to about 45mm and make multiple images from left to right overlapping about 25%. I wished that I knew then what I know now about making panoramic images without parallax distortion when trying to stitch all of the images together. But that was over 14 years ago. Had I have know more on the subject I would have at least overlapped 50%.
The image title indicates the Wooden Shoe Arch on the far left. I made closer images of just that feature but later decided to come back and do a very wide pano of the entire rock feature and found it much more interesting. I might add that I did replace the sky in this as the skies at that time of the year out west are not what I would have liked.
And BTW, if you like a bit of humor of the things that have happened to me over the years on some of my photo adventures, try reading some of the stories in my Blog. I've just added the last two adventures that happened many years ago. Just waiting for the next humorous adventure to arrive.
I'm sure there must have been a couple of events that happened out of the ordinarily while some other photo adventures, but trying to remember back. 15 years now is a real task. But when I do I will write them up and post to my Blog.
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