Great scenes fly by when you can’t stop to photograph them. Parking in the fast lane on an Interstate is ill-advised, even for a potentially masterful shot. Other times the situation is marginal. This May a nice scene presented itself when we were returning to the Lake Tahoe region in the California mountains from the pleasant town of Minden, Nevada. I pulled barely off the road and grabbed two frames out of the car window, and somehow managed to splice them into a respectable panorama.

The high percentage of sky caused the exposure to be reduced, compared to the darker scene at ground level. This has the good effect of keeping some detail in the clouds. The sky in the lower image is blanked by overexposure.

The Photomerge™ option in Adobe Photoshop Elements serves to stitch multiple images together into one. It usually works remarkably well, but sometimes it just doesn’t do the job. In those cases, the problem can often be solved by perspectively correcting the individual images before merging them.