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If you want to impress your friends and family, try shooting some panoramas. Panos are composites from multiple photos showing a wider field of view than a normal lens would provide. Because you’re using multiple shots panos often have astounding detail. A pano shot of 100 megapixels or more is not that hard to achieve and you (Yeah, you) can do it with virtually any camera and free software!

Panoramas will be much easier if you’re not shooting in “AUTO.” Admittedly the purpose of this series is to get you to explore the other modes in your camera, but it’s a really big deal here. You want your snaps to match shot-to-shot in depth of field and exposure. “AUTO” won’t let you do that. You need to be in “MANUAL” or an aperture priority mode where your f-stop setting won’t change between clicks.