Photo Title:	South Shore Lake Tahoe Looking West
Photographer:	Noel Carboni
Location of Photograph:	Lake Tahoe, California side
What the photographer likes about the image:	The day was clear and quiet after a night of snowfall and most people were rushing to the ski resorts across town, leaving this beachfront park to us. The grandeur of the scenery in the Sierra, and especially around Lake Tahoe, is breathtaking. Even in a high-resolution panoramic shot such as this, one fails to capture the truly awesome natural beauty there.
Techniques Used:	I set the camera for ISO 100, zoomed in about halfway and did a manual white balance calibration on some nearby snow. I then took 4 shots, handheld, starting with the park shore on the left and working my way to the right, overlapping the shots a bit, and trying to hold the camera level and keep the horizon centered between the top and bottom of the frame. Using Adobe Photoshop, I did a small rotation of each of the shots to perfectly level them, pasting them in as separate layers into one image. To finish, I balanced the exposures using the curves function, and blended the edges using the eraser tool and a fuzzy-edged brush.
Things to notice:	It proved to be difficult to blend the waves in the lake together believably in the multiple shot, but following the natural lines of contrast with the Eraser tool turned out to be a fairly successful approach. Image editors or panorama stitching software can be used to patch together truly dramatic panoramas, which are a unique format.