Chippenham..

With my blog lacking in home town pics, I took a wander and picked out a couple of photos to post up. I'm not sure it says much for Chippenham, but all these pics suited black and white conversion! I left the factory shot bigger than usual as it has some cool details in it...

A quick note on my panoramic shots for Alikat - I stitch multiple shots together. I know there are panoramic format cameras, but I'm guessing they are expensive.

I'm lucky to have access to Photoshop CS3, which has an extremely impressive photostiching process, but prior to that I used a few free photo stiching programs with varying success as well as layering them in photoshop 7. (I'll post up the name of the best free tool when I get home)..

I guess the most useful text book tips are: use a tripod if you can, keep the horizon straight, fix as many settings as possible for photos from sunny side to shadey side (especially aperture).

But then I don't follow rules too much and some of the panoramics are just hand held.