Is there any issues with stitching four photos together as opposed to taking one shot with a better camera?

Forget the hassy, its not needed. Here is how I would handle it.

Grab a 50mm and a tripod, mount the camera vertically and look through the viewfinder and on the left edge of the your subject, come about half way more left and take your shot. Then turn your camera to the right until your about 3/4 of the way into the next view, but leave some of the previous view in play. Take another shot. do this a few times until you have the entire seen covered, but no more than say 5 shots total.

Open bridge and select all the images in the proper order and click on tools>photoshop>merge. Follow the prompts and I usually use auto but you can mess with the other options.

let Photoshop cook for a while and it will pop out a Pano. Crop it to your specs and that's basically it.

What don't you like about the pictures? -Is it the content (i.e. do you want your subject to be more close-up, more in focus, etc.). Close-ups typically work best for people. Play around with the angle you're snapping the camera from. Put your subject near one of the corners; it shouldn't be in the center. Typically the most balanced images follow the 1/3 rule where your main focus is 1/3 away from either the top or bottom and 1/3 away from either side. -If it's the technical aspects (lighting, color, etc) it may be helpful to take a class to show you how and when to use flash, what speed you should use for what you're trying to obtain, etc. Of course you could always use Photoshop to adjust some of these as well. It may help to slow down a bit. Take less pictures, but strive to make the ones you do take good. It'll force you to focus on what you're trying to obtain and hopefully with time, you'll improve. Definatly don't try to interfere or pose the image too much. A lot comes down to knowing when exactly to push the shutter.

With a tripod, you don't even have to use photoshop although it or similar program or online service might blend the pixels at the over lap better. First answer looks good

You will spend about twenty minutes stitching four photos together. I'd definitely do this.

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