Carl:
These are impressive. I think the pano format greatly accentuates the sheer magnitude of the place. The first one is a view of the often-photographed barn and a view that I have never seen before. Were these done in CS3 or did you use another program to stitch them? Thanks for posting these.
Very nice series. Is there anyway you can link bigger photo's to get a little bit more detail out of them? You can definitely tell the color is just beautiful there. Nice captures.
Richard Booth wrote:
Carl:
These are impressive. I think the pano format greatly accentuates the sheer magnitude of the place. The first one is a view of the often-photographed barn and a view that I have never seen before. Were these done in CS3 or did you use another program to stitch them? Thanks for posting these.
Richard
Thanks, all!
Richard, these were all stitched in PS CS3 using Photomerge. Most of them are four image stitches, with the exception of the barns pano which was five. The files are each appr. 200-300 MB at full size, appr. 10" x 54-72" in size (@ 250 dpi). Photomerge does a FANTASTIC job and the seams CANNOT be found when zoomed in.
The key to any pano shooting is two fold - make sure the tripod and camera are both leveled, independently of each other. When I was looking for proper exposure, I panned across the entire scenr and looked for an average exposure across the scene and in manual mode, exposed the images for this average. And when processing the multiple raw files, any adjustment made to one (i.e., WB or exposure adj.) must be made to the others in the series. Once they are stitched, then global adjustments can be made to the overall image once flattened. I also used Nik's Viveza for local adjustments.
I beleive the lenses used in these varied between the 45 & 90mm TS and the 70-200 2.8 non-IS - the body was a 5D.
I would love to post these larger but short of subscribing to a hosting service, I would not know how. Any tips?
Carl:
Thanks for that. I was hoping these results came from CS3. I've noticed a huge improvement in this from CS2, which was terrible for stitching. This looks really nice. Just out of curiosity, how are you going to show these? Are you going with a gallery mount?
Richard
Oct 05, 2008 at 12:53 PM
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Richard, not sure yet. I print these for myself and most likely to hang here at home and even at work in my office. My problem right now is that my lab (Millers) only prints as wide/long as 60" and these will each be substanially longer. I may just have these printed on canvas by Simply Canvas as gallery wraps. If I can find someone/somewhere to print these on metallic paper at these lengths, I'll do so instead. On canvas, these will be EXPENSIVE. If on metallic paper, I'll probably go with a masonite mount.
Ok. So was scrolling down (please number your photos!!!). Very strong set. Then the first oxbow shot made me go wow. Killer series. Love the aspens too. the second oxbow shot could use some work on the sky. looks grayish.
WOW! you certainly picked a good spot (perhaps the best) to focus on pano work. these are spectacular. i just love the perspective and magnitude of the tetons rising out of no where. the colors in that last oxbow shot are perhaps the best i've ever seen at GTNP. awesome.
