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Another nice resting spot at the arboretum. This was originally a five shot panorama about 9,000 pixels wide, done to test the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II tilt/shift lens. Panoramas are created using the 'shift' function of the lens and are straightforward & easy. A number of people even walked through the background as I was shooting it, but since the multiple images have a large amount of overlap, people can be simply layered over in Photoshop. The 'tilt' function is proving to be much more difficult to get right and will take a lot more practice. That movement changes the plane of focus from parallel to the sensor to nearly perpendicular to it. That's good for shooting along walls or fences where you want everything in focus from foreground to background. There was also a stack of three graduated ND filters blocking out a lot of the sunlight here. It made the Magnolia tree to the right very dark though. What the lens does need is a polarizer and that's next on the list.