A 3 shot panorama of a sunrise at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. This was take earlier in the morning than my previous post showing far more subtle skies. In this case I was bounded by photographers to both the left and right of my shooting position on the ridge just below the observation area and had to clone out a camera lens on the right hand side. This pano is stitched from 3 captures with my 17-40mm lens at a focal length of 17mm with exposures of 0.6 sec. @ f/11 ISO 100. I used a 2 stop hand held ND Grad to keep the lighting dynamics in range for the sky.
Alan, it's a very nice light show in a sky! The landscape on a bottom shows nice texture, too.
What's really interesting about this place - as you start going down the trail, the landscape keeps changing A LOT.
excellent work are you using pano gear to help aligning images at 17mm? i got bit by parallax last time in dvnp. wont return to pano work until i solve that issue
Feb 13, 2012 at 05:36 PM
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Alan, It's nice when you can see things that are right under other peoples noses but they can't. To bad you didn't have an IR camera for those skies. Kidding aside, very nice pano. Rick
Killer view and wonderful soft morning light, Alan. Again I like your natural color pp, but I wonder, for this one, about a wee bit more local contrast for the land? Just a thought.
Alan,
I really like this shot. I know exactly where your standing and you put together a very nice comp with great detail. Throw in the clouds and the beautiful soft light and it all adds up to an excellent shot !. Dean
My processing intentions were to keep the colors subtle to reflect the fairly flat lighting conditions that were present but to still try to emphasize the neat focal point around the nice chocolate topped topographic feature in the middle of the Zabriskie Point view and still leave enough room for the viewer's gaze to wander up to the sky show above. These comments seem to suggest I came close to that mark.
Justin Huffman wrote:
excellent work are you using pano gear to help aligning images at 17mm? i got bit by parallax last time in dvnp. wont return to pano work until i solve that issue
I did not use pano gear at all beyond a bubble level on top of my camera. I did run into stitching issues with photoshop CS5 using Reposition for the merge and parallax was an unworkable result so I moved over to Autopano Pro for the version you are seeing here. I have seen Photoshop stumble more than a few times when a pano approaches 160+ degrees of coverage. You may have perfectly workable captures in hand already but need better stitching software.
Rick Schump wrote:
Alan, It's nice when you can see things that are right under other peoples noses but they can't. To bad you didn't have an IR camera for those skies. Kidding aside, very nice pano. Rick
You are going to hate this Rick - you and Ted were the photographers barely inches off to the left of this image when I shot it
Every lens around me except for one of Brenda's students was aimed down at the landforms and not up at the sky.
. Kidding aside, very nice pano. Rick