Multi-frame composite DV image. June, 1999

I thought I'd be clever and use the camera in autoexposure mode to shoot the source images for this composite. That way, when the camera was pointed down at the dark water, it would expose the water properly and when I tilted up to the sky, it, too would be correctly exposed. Leaving the camera in manual mode would have either underexposed the water or overexposed the sky because the video camera lacks sufficient exposure latitude to record both at the same setting. Photovista then used the images to create the composite you see here. Lesson: When shooting panoramas with lots of contrast from one end to the other, leave the camera in auto mode and let PV figure it out. I don't think a 35mm film camera could do much better with such a wide range of brightnesses.