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The idea is to capture a large area, that would normally only be possible using a wide angle lens, using a zoom lens, having only your subject in clear focus,with the remaining back and foreground out of focus. This is done by creating a panoramic image captured through a lot of frames while holding the focal point in a single target. A good tutorial can be found here
Sitting out the front yesterday, enjoying the sunshine, and hoping to catch some birds, I decided to play a little while I had my Tokina 60-300mm lens attached. I had previously only glanced at the tutorial to get the general idea of what was involved. When I was ready to process the shot last night, I gave it a much more thorough reading and discovered there were a lot of things I kinda did wrong when taking this image. (Did not have white balance set so as to be identical across the range for example).
Most of the examples I have seen using this technique involve portrait photography, but I think it could be used in nature scenes with good effect, if the scene suits.
The shot below is a panoramic stitching made up of 40 individual frames (yes 40!). Definitely not the best example, but the result seems interesting enough for me to think a little more about this technique.
. You're right though...on the right subject this could be interesting.
