Bridgers Panoramic - Bozeman, Montana

I've been playing with panoramic photography a bit lately, primarily because my wife wants a large photo to hang over our fireplace. I shoot an Olympus e500: the 8 megapixel sensor of that camera is a bit restrictive when it comes to enlargements. The lighting for this shot is nothing earth-shaking, but the sunflower field does lend some visual interest overall. I took 16 separate frames (all shot portrait with a good bit of overlap), post-processed the first in LightRoom and synched those settings to the other 15 images, and then combined them using CS4's panoramic function to create a composite PSD that is just over 1GB. Cropped and exported as .jpg, the resulting high-quality file is just 37MB. The sample shown here is a lower-quality .jpg I exported for the web.