How to Shoot and Stitch 100+ Megapixel Panoramas (Plus the Lightroom Merge Trick Nobody Talks About)

How to Shoot and Stitch 100+ Megapixel Panoramas (Plus the Lightroom Merge Trick Nobody Talks About)

There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes from standing in front of a breathtaking landscape, knowing your 24-megapixel sensor is about to give you a file that looks great on Instagram and embarrassing at print size. I’ve been there more times than I want to admit. The fix I keep coming back to isn’t a gear upgrade. It’s stitching. Shooting multiple frames and merging them into a single high-resolution image is one of the most underused techniques in landscape photography, mostly because people assume it’s complicated or requires specialized equipment.