As a follow-up to How to Shoot Panoramas, here’s a checklist of things to remember.

• Level your tripod
• Switch to manual exposure
• Switch to manual focus
• Switch to a preset white balance such as Daylight
• Select an f/stop that gives the necessary depth of field
• Select an ISO setting that gives reasonable exposure times
• Don’t use a focal length wider than 50 mm (on a 35 mm camera)
• Remove the lens hood
• Don’t use your polarizer filter and be careful with graduated neutral density filters too
• Start your panorama in the part of the scene that will have the least exposure change if you’re shooting during the twilight.

Have fun out there but also, be careful.