What do you do when the scene is just too big for a 50mm? The appeal of zoom lenses is you can carry a lot of different focal lengths in one lens. The trade off is lower quality, less light gathering, cost and less image consistency. But again, if the scene is too big for your lens, and you only have a prime what do you do?

Well, you shoot a panorama and stitch it together! The shot above is a composite of nine 50mm shots. I pulled it together in Photoshop. The composite above came out at a 120 megapixel photo! So you get the additional benefit of super high resolution. Below is a 1:1 crop of part of picture showing the amazing detail.

Close up detail of an engine in the Saturn 5 Rocket

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 | Canon 7d | 1/60sec at f/9

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