joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

The easy way is to crop out the top or bottom of an image.

bkyser Loc: Fly over country in Indiana

Well, I was on your side until you made a comment like that. I have both Canon and Nikon (and even a Minolta). I wouldn't place much credence in someone teaching a class, that was so biased for or against certain brands. I'd also worry if the teacher just wanted the camera to do all the work, instead of showing them how 90% of photographers actually do it.

What do you teach? Point here, click, and let the camera do the rest? Short class. Hope they don't have to pay for it.

Seriously. We all have our preferences, but as a teacher, you shouldn't put someone's choice of equipment down, just because you don't understand it.

Chief Rob

The Nikon D7100 does not have a Panoramic shot setting but it does have a Landscape Scene mode described in the manual on page 41.

Ched49 Loc: Pittsburgh, Pa.

Very intelligent comment...and your a instructor of photography?

bkyser Loc: Fly over country in Indiana

Not to mention, asking for help from NIKON D7100 users, then insults them all.

WessoJPEG Loc: Cincinnati, Ohio

WessoJPEG Loc: Cincinnati, Ohio

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ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Pan is used a lot here in the west and Alaska. My student is a Real-Estate agent and Pan is used at least once or twice to show Ranches. Try a pan of the Ohio Riverfront from the Kentucky side. You would be able to get the Brent Spence Bridge and Riverfront Stadium all in one. With the River Queen paddling up the Ohio, it would be nice shot.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

As an instructor I make a point of NOT presenting my equipment or vision preferences. No true teacher wants a bunch of brown nose clones as students. I try to tout the advantages of each brand in my class, not just the big 3, but everything from cel phones to view cameras. Then it is up to the student to figure out which one bests suits his needs. Happy Shooting

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Time is money for my Real-Estate Agent Student. She does not need to spend a lot of time in PS or any of the other post processing programs. 90% of the images are printed 8x10 or smaller or set up to for the Internet and therefore need only be low resolution VGA quality. But thank you all for your comments. One does not learn by doing everything right. Happy Shooting

terry44 Loc: Tuolumne County California, Maui Hawaii

Panos really take little time you shoot the number of shots you need and put them together in photomatix, photoshop and quite a few other programs, just a little practice and they will get it. Otherwise my advice for your real estate student is to hire someone to take the shots a pro can do the pano processing and all the other adjustments fast, this is a good example of the decline in good pro photographers.

SusanFromVermont Loc: Southwest corner of Vermont

I have to ask: If she does not want to do a lot of post-processing, and wants to do panoramas, why did she buy a D7100? Sounds like a less advanced camera with that kind of mode in the menu would have been sufficient.

Perhaps your student is also interested in the more creative side of photography? If so, she did buy a good camera for that purpose. And hopefully you will be able to help her take advantage of its capabilities.

Taking panos the "old fashioned way" usually requires a tripod to line up the scene and make sure the amount of overlap is sufficient. And creating the finished image in post processing really does not take a lot of time. The pictures are fed to the program, and the program stitches them together very nicely! However, any time an image does not come out of the camera looking the way you want, then editing becomes necessary. If shooting .jpg is preferred, it might not require as much editing as RAW, but when you do want to edit the .jpg you will not have as much information available for making improvements.

Like so many other things in life, photography requires making choices, and choices are as individual as the photographer! There is more than one way to reach the goal, especially since no one's goals are precisely the same as other people's goals.

Hope you have gotten some good help here, and not be annoyed by some of the comments.

Clifster

I have done a number of panorama shots using Nikon 5300 and 7200 cameras. It is really eay to just shoot away (you do not really need a tripod) and stitch the images together, then crop for a great panorama. I saw one video where the photog took 12 shots in a 2-row by 6 wide shoot, then combined them in a really neat shot. Of course, the NASA dudes have been stitching many, many images together for years.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Thank you for your info. I appreciate good help. As in 99% of my students, they have already chosed a camera. Usualy chosen because of advertisement, someone's recommendations or a big box sale , not based on their needs. I would agree with you in that she chose the wrong camera. But it is like that shiny sports car, one buys then later discovers that they really would be better off with a minivan. For a short period of time I was a camera salesman. That was when the Canon AE1 came out. Everyone wanted one but what most people really needed was just a Kodak Instimatic or Olympus 35 or XA. My boss didn't like the fact that I was selling customers what they needed vs high profit margin, not that cameras have much profit anyway.
The best option is a professional photographer but very few real-estate agencies go that way due to cost. By the published photos I have seen, most agents use cel phone cameras now days, which as you know is not a very good option. I see it as a plus that she is trying to learn to use a decent camera including multiple flash units to light rooms. It takes time and practice to learn. My hat is off to those that ask questions and are interested in learning. Happy Shooting

SusanFromVermont Loc: Southwest corner of Vermont

You are right about how many will choose their cameras. And no one wants to admit that the one they bought is either too little or too much for their needs. Of course, needs can change, which is where a teacher such as yourself can be very helpful by guiding and advising.

It was not easy when I went from a digital point-and-shoot to a DSLR! But I bought the best camera I could afford [Nikon D7000 - at that time it was the best of the crop-sensor cameras, now displaced from that position by newer models], and accepted the fact that the learning curve would be steep. I stuck with that camera for 5 years before buying a new camera last fall [D810 - full frame], and I still have the old camera as a backup camera.

I suspect that while your student currently wants to learn to take those real estate photos, she will realize that there are certain basics that need to be understood for ANY photography. And the better she gets, the more fun it will be, and the more she will want to learn. Perhaps then she will branch out and start taking other types of photographs. If this is how she progresses, then it will not be a bad thing that she bought more camera than she needed at the time!