DP2M panorama - Milford Sound, New Zealand

[WiryBlob]

8x images stitched.

 

[CatchAlive]

Beautiful! :-o

 

[D Cox]

Stunning even on the computer screen. It deserves a big print.

 

[L Tippett]

Fantastic,

Yes that one really would look great printed XXL.

Very well done.

Kind regards Lea.

 

[Omexis]

That is fantastic! I especially love the cloud coverage over the hills.

 

[Hardy Steiner]

Wow, a pretty dramatic capture! How many pictures is this panorama made of?

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[SigmaTog]

Almost primordial

Tog

 

[ju_ju]

Excellent landscape , simply superb.

 

[larryj]

8x images stitched.

WOW! That is a breath taking image WiryBlob: Thanks for sharing and please post more images and often ;O)>.

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[tinpusher]

My wife and I visited Milford Sound in 2008.

That fantastic panorama brought the memories back...thankyou.

 

[Corkcampbell]

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[Kendall Helmstetter Gelner]

Well there's someplace I have to go now.

Fantastic!

 

[davidw1963]

excellent photo. I was there 3 weeks ago. Would you have any more to share?


David

 

[Roland Karlsson]

Beautiful place, well done panorama. I in particular like the nice placing of the vegetation in the foreground. Nice idea. And ... the feeling of the damp atmosphere. Unusually good.

 

[miro3]

Impressive!

Stitched with what?

 

[WiryBlob]

Thanks for your feedback.

The images were taken on a wet day in January 2014. Shot on a MEfoto tripod, locked vertically on an L-bracket/handgrip with manual focus and exposure lock. The image was made from 9 vertical exposures.

In SPP, I'd choose one of the 9 with the highest dynamic range, then wind back the shadows and highlights using exposure and fill-light. I'd save this as a custom profile, then in the list view select all 9 images and apply that saved profile to all of them, saving as 16bit tiffs.

I then opened the tiffs in Autopano giga, which automatically detects the order, etc. Generally I use mercator projection for these wide panos if there's not too much detail at the top and bottom. After cropping in autopano, I export to 1 giant tiff - approx. 400+MB.

I then open the tiff in Photoshop for further tweaking. In this case I used a series of layers and masks to bring in a more cloud detail, while keeping the high cliff on the right still illuminated. The central sky had a weird reddish cast due to the DP2M's well known colour issues... so I desaturated this to try to get the sky more uniform.

Crunched down to fit on dpreview...

 

[intruder61]

excellent...this camera has a reputation for panoramas.

 

[Gesture]

Thanks for that info. Would love a full article on it. Anyways, GREAT IMAGE.

 

[chris blaubac]

That's a stunning piece of work.

 

[Ollie 2]

Great work.

Looks like you got one of the rare fine weather days!