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rspino said:
just curious about your workflow though.
why did you choose to blend the "slices" separately before stitching?
isn't it easier to do the reverse?
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It may be easier but by doing so you increasing your chances to get misaligned images when blending into HDR. Stiching is not an exact process (from what I've tried) and you cannot guarantee it will be repeated pixel by pixel for each set of "slices" exactly.

Anyway, that's from personal experience but again may be I'm using the wrong tools ;-)
 
You did a quite good shot, but the result is so unnatural. It reminds me these 1960's cheap scenic paintings (only the gipsy isn't there ...)

Sorry but i think it's over done, all is boosted, contrast, lightning, DO . I just sugest to keep it more natural and use HDR on a max of -1/+1 bracketing.

But all this is so personnal and i see lot of folks like it. It's up to you to decide what your pictures have to look like, not someone else. (But i give you my point of view)

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ett av de vakraste photon jag har sett här och det har inget att göra med att jag är Svenska.

Sven, one of the most beautiful shots I've seen posted here & it has nothing to do with me being Swedish. Just beautiful.

Inspirational, maybe one day I'll take a stab at it.

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Great HDR pano! I was wondering how much time it took you to shoot all of the shots, at all pano positions. Seems like the lighting and cloud positions will change while you're taking the shots.

Thanks for sharing
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John.vincent said:
Great work Sven, could look at it all day.

One question, do you have any idea what the panorama would have
looked like if you did not use HDR. Just curious to know how much
difference it made to the final result.
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John,

there are basically two different areas of the scene - the bright one being the rhomb in the center consisting of the sky and its reflection in the lake, the dark one being the surrounding area consisting of the trees and the firm ground.

Had I not used HDR, I would either have well exposed sky and reflection with the trees and ground going black, or I would have colors in the trees and ground with burnt out sky and reflection.

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graphic breizh said:
You did a quite good shot, but the result is so unnatural. It reminds
me these 1960's cheap scenic paintings (only the gipsy isn't there
...)

Sorry but i think it's over done, all is boosted, contrast,
lightning, DO . I just sugest to keep it more natural and use HDR on
a max of -1/+1 bracketing.

But all this is so personnal and i see lot of folks like it. It's up
to you to decide what your pictures have to look like, not someone
else. (But i give you my point of view)

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It's the gear that make a photographer poor, the picture make them
earn their living so
choose what to do ...
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Thanks for your comments!

Yes I cannot claim that the image is 100% natural ; ) but I like the colors of this one. I guess that if I do HDRs too often, I will soon get tired of this look myself!

Best regards,

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LilKnytt said:
ett av de vakraste photon jag har sett här och det har inget att göra
med att jag är Svenska.

Sven, one of the most beautiful shots I've seen posted here & it has
nothing to do with me being Swedish. Just beautiful.
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Thanks a lot for your flattering comment, it made my day! :-)
LilKnytt said:
Inspirational, maybe one day I'll take a stab at it.
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It's quite fun, but it takes a lot of time when you're not used to this kind of editing...

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LeftSpin said:
Great HDR pano! I was wondering how much time it took you to shoot
all of the shots, at all pano positions. Seems like the lighting and
cloud positions will change while you're taking the shots.

Thanks for sharing
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It probably took some three - four minutes in total. Repositioning the pano head a couple of times, and bracketing exposures at each position. And yes the cloud positions as well as the sun changed during this time and that probably was the major reason for those hours that I spent on manual retouching in Photoshop.

Thanks for your comments!

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However, I feel that the foreground (on the far left and far right) is a bit too bright, given the source of light (the sun). I'd add vignetting or otherwise subdue the midtones in these areas for a more natural look.

Great photo regardless, keep up the good work!
 
I agree with the WOW. That is one super panorama. Would you mind telling me how you set it up for print, and who does this type of printing? Thanks, Dave
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Sven your not supposed to use all the tricks for one picture....Great job. What bracketting did you use for the HDR exposures and how many? Did you use manual exposure across the scene and set brakets or did you let the exposure float and bracket on top of the individual auto exposure settings?
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George Lepp a pro photographer told me that you need almost 50% overlap with WA lenses. For a 35mm lens focal length you only need about 20% overlap. I think the software needs the overlap to work the WAs distortion.
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