Stiching panoramas and playing with light

I've been working on my photos from all the trips. I'm still not done because I keep stopping and just scroll through them remembering how awesome it was. But I also am plagued by that feeling that I could've taken a much better photo now. I keep learning more and more bout what works and what doesn't and one day I may even take photos I don't want to post-process.

There are of course some tools that help to learn - like this handy cheat chart about the effect of ISO, aperture and shutter speed on the photo. You can download large version from the original website - Fotoblog Hamburg - both in original German and in English.

And here's an camera simulator where you can play with different settings and can see how the photo turns out. For all those trying out manual option.

And since this has been invisible for so long - it's been tough week so I wasn't paying attention - here is one of those pics I stitched together. Canyonlands: