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Both are terrific panoramas. I would only suggest that clonning out the red bouy would help and one seam to the left of it could be matched up a little better. I love the colors and reflections. Dave
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View of Yosemite Valley, Bridalveil fall 4 frame vertical pano taken from the tunnel parking lot.

 
That's a darn fine conveyance of the drama of that atmosphere. Enviously fine. ;)

Did you have any particular challenges with this?
result42 said:
Death Valley (US) is always a great place to photograph. This particular shot was part of a 17 image stitch. The area between the dunes and the mountains behind had strong winds, looking like fog in the background.



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ThePalindrome said:
What you said made me look at the other shots I had taken of this location. You're right, the sky is not just superfluous space. I think I will use one of pictues like the one below or a triptychon of three detail shots instead of one huge picture of little height.
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I do like the first one a lot, but my first impression was "too short". It was just too tight, vertically, cramping the interesting features near the frame's edges (I'm a nut about 'breathing room' between elements at the edges of a composition).

This is very nice too. There are several ways one can look at things - just for a matter of discussion I think it would bring the icy elements closer by cropping some of the sky yet (up to 1/2). It all depends on how much of the character in the sky you think plays a part. Me? I'm a 'many versions' type. Here, the centered 'horizon' has me looking for something a little different (but I"d keep this one too) ;)
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Thank you for the excellent discussion, David!



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Made time late last week to return to re-pano [g] where I was previously foiled by rain before the exposures were complete.

µ4/3 lenses can be problems in shots like this, not so much for ghosting of lights but the quality of the ghosting. Using the E-M5, the Oly 12f2 lens was the right FOV for the portrait orientation sweep, and did quite a nice job with the lights themselves.

Boat traffic seems to die off after 9pm weeknights. Still, there was a lot of attention to be given to small areas of stitching on the water's surface (and evidence of air traffic). I think any that remains you really have to want to find [g]. The Original was posted at 1600px tall.





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Thanks! The only thing I can think of is that because I had a tripod sitting on the dune and doing a pano, I had to keep shutter speed a little high (sinking sand). Also, due to the blowing sand, changing lenses was not great...luckily I had two bodies :)

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Packery Channel Park Beach, Corpus Christi, Texas

Not a cloud in the skiy, but a storm blew in right after I took this today, all of the blue in the sky went away, and it rained hard.



 
I like here the waves that both approach and depart the center.

Did you use a filter, or process the exposures before blending? There's a variable cast that shows strongest along the sky.

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I agree with Andre. This is just a beautiful panorama. Thanks for sharing, and I hope it finds a place on one of your walls. Dave
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View of Yosemite Valley, Bridalveil fall 4 frame vertical pano taken from the tunnel parking lot.

 
Bobo Hodls said:
I like here the waves that both approach and depart the center.

Did you use a filter, or process the exposures before blending? There's a variable cast that shows strongest along the sky.
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Thanks Bob,

I did not use a filter and I did not process before blending, except for one picture. For some reason that one picture had problems with color and I did adjust it before stitching. White balance and shutter speed were on fixed settings --so I don't know why.

After stitching, I used PhotoShop to darken highlights, clone a very small area of the sky at the top, increased saturation, and sharpened. The original is about 9,600 x 2200, and I reduced it to post here.

Can you please explain what "variable cast" is? Is this good or bad?
 
I posted a pano in the last panorama thread #55 of the Idaho Medium Security Prison with a ton of smoke in the air. Well, I got back there again this last Sunday, and the air was much better. I reshot the pano and used my NEX 7 with the kit lens @ 18mm. I am reposting the smoky version as well for comparison. Dave
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I also shot another pano of the Dworshak Dam which is nearby, about 10 miles from the prison.
Sony NEX 7 18mm @ f13



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View of Yosemite Valley, Bridalveil fall 4 frame vertical pano taken from the tunnel parking lot.

 
Cool. What a difference! Hopefully the fire season will soon be finished. It has been a tough year. Dworshak -- also cool. I have always wanted to go there for a look (I like dams). I have been to Lewiston several times (jet boating up the Snake) but haven't managed to head east up the Clearwater River. As I understand it, the structure is about 700 feet high and 3000+ feet long. Can you walk across the top of the dam?

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That is an excellent spot -- and an excellent result. And a "re-pano" -- I can relate! I see on the map that you were on the Fulton Ferry (west) side of the park. The time of day -- lighting -- was perfect. Thanks for the play-by-play narration. I think this is what unites the pano comminuty... the process that culminates in a satisfying creation. Something that is substantially more than a single-frame image not just in terms of image dimensions, but as it relates to the input procedure and what is ultimately produced from an artistic standpoint.

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1971_M5 said:
Cool. What a difference! Hopefully the fire season will soon be finished. It has been a tough year. Dworshak -- also cool. I have always wanted to go there for a look (I like dams). I have been to Lewiston several times (jet boating up the Snake) but haven't managed to head east up the Clearwater River. As I understand it, the structure is about 700 feet high and 3000+ feet long. Can you walk across the top of the dam?
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Thanks John. There are tours of the dam which might walk across the dam. I really don't know and we didn't have time to check much out, Here is a link to some information regarding the tours of the area. Dave

http://www.reserveamerica.com/camping/Dworshak_State_Park/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=ID&parkId=311022
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View of Yosemite Valley, Bridalveil fall 4 frame vertical pano taken from the tunnel parking lot.

 
I see colorcast now. I believe it is related to inconsistent white balance. Next time I will try manual white balance. --Thanks for the comment; always trying to improve!



 
This one is way better. There is also a noticible bend in the horizon that should be addressed. It is usually better to shoot panos in everything manual to keep consistency in each frame, and lighten or darken areas in PP. You did a remarkable job of shotting this as surf is very, very hard to match up, so I usually won't even try. Dave
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View of Yosemite Valley, Bridalveil fall 4 frame vertical pano taken from the tunnel parking lot.

 
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