Please look at the larger image for a slightly better impression of what the 33-megapixel image looks like.
Two days ago, I posted an image that included part of this scene (shot a few minutes earlier) and Stan Rose remarked “Its real busy…” but he liked it. Naturally, my reaction was to process this panorama, which includes about about six times MORE stuff.
Sure, there is a lot here, but a big print of all the detail really puts me in the scene I experienced last week.
This is a stitch of 4 vertical images, each of which is a blend of three different exposures (12 exposures in all). I like the results of the manual blend more than the HDR I used on the smaller view.
Canon 50D
Tamron 18-250
Manual blend 1/8, 1/4 and 1/2 sec. @ f/16; ISO 100
Four vertical frames stitched.
Tripod; homemade pano bracket; 2-second timer
Comments
20 commentsSolid composition with a relatively low camera stance which I think makes this image. Along with the mist above the river.
Wonderful
- Anders
Mike D: Yes, I will try warming it just a bit, but not much. The single exposures I shot prior to setting up the pano were too warm. (I had just crawled out of my 30-degree sleeping bag after having to put on long-johns to get through the night, so I wanted to preserve that cold morning feeling.) For the pano exposures, I just set the camera to daylight, and it looked close to what I wanted, and that’s what you see here.
Michael C: Nope, I blend the three exposures of each frame first, and then stitch them. That’s because I don’t trust the software to stitch precisely the same way three different times. When a cloud, ripple, or leaf moves a bit, it can cause minute differences in how the stitch matches up. In addition, if there is anything that moves in the picture, trying to blend three different stitched panoramas can be a mess even if the stationary elements all line up the same for each stitch. I just use simple layers for blending feathered selections of the lighter and darker exposures on top of the medium one, being careful to line up the overlapping parts, and making the opacity of the layers the same on each frame.
The large version is wonderful! There's even a hint of color being picked up in the sky of the big version. The little rock island stands out nicely and the mist rising from the water and the hint of autumn at the forest's edge complete the scene. Nice work!
Lon
- Dan.