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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 500794" data-attributes="member: 16749">Got a tripod?  Got a remote control for your D7000?  Then you don't need a separate photographer.  If you don't have these things, why not?  I just checked Nikon's site, and the <a href="https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/remote-cords/ml-l3-wireless-remote-control-(infrared).html#tab-ProductDetail-ProductTabs-CompatibleWith" target="_blank">ML-L3</a> is listed as being compatible with your camera, and it's only about twenty dollars.  You can get third-party knockoffs for even less than that, that are probably just as good.  In lieu of a tripod, you can set the camera on a piece of furniture, a box, or whatever is available, and find small objects to wedge under it to hold it at the necessary angle.  Why would you need a special lens?  Whatever lens you have, just set the camera up at such a distance that it takes in the full width of your subjects.  Your D7000 has a horizontal resolution of 4928 pixels.  Over a 48-inch-wide print, that'll give you a resolution of slightly better than 100 DPI.  That's a bit coarser than I'd really like for a printed image, but for that size, and for the distance at which is would best be viewed, that is probably plenty of resolution.  If this is to be printed on canvas, then the surface is probably rough enough that any finer resolution wouldn't help anyway.  If you think you do need better resolution, then you can have the picture taken in two or three shots and stitched together with <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/ice/" target="_blank">Microsoft ICE</a> to form a panorama; but if you do that, then you will need someone else to operate the camera, and you'll all need to stay very still while the pictures are being taken.</blockquote>

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