My First HDR + Panorama

[G.Scot]

Original size: 12062x1606 (111MB). 5 shots AEB with +-1EV. First the 15 shots were merged to HDR in Photomatix Pro then photomerged in Photoshop to produce this panorama.

Your thoughts please!
Thanks,

[Caine]

Beautiful, very striking.

[RussHeath]

Excellent work! The process you describe is a time consuming one and difficult to do well. Unfortunately, even the large size on Flickr is not very big, but from what I can tell you did a really good job. I can't see obvious merge lines and it doesn't appear that you've overdone the tonemapping.

One technical question: What mode was your camera on? I ask becuase the exposure appears fairly uniform throughout the panorama, and I was wondering if this was a product of being on manual with only the EV changing, or if you shot on another mode and the tonemapping evened things out.

Thanks for sharing and great work!

[mysticeyesx]

i think you do a good job for a first try. i would like to see it bigger though

[G.Scot]

Thanks for the comments!

The camera was in Beach Scene Mode and the white balance was set to cloudy. All pictures came out with the same Aperture: f/5.6 and focal length of 7.9 mm ISO: 100.

No problem with auto alignment and Photoshop auto blend command did a great job (No obvious merge lines when viewed 100%). Camera was on Tripod.
And, yeah, the process is very much time consuming, but I had fun

Thanks,

[Murtasma]

looks like a great image but the orginal size you uploaded on flickr is far to small to do any kind of critique esp for a panaromaic photo a larger version would be nice.

[G.Scot]

I tried to upload a 1680x224, but i guess flickr doesn't allow larger sizes than 1024x768 with free accounts.

Here is the 1024x137:


Or direct link to the image:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/...5864a6c2_b.jpg

[Murtasma]

yea sounds like a limit on the free account. The larger size is better but still pretty small. It looks like a fantastic image with lots of interesting stuff to look at but nothign to distracting the only thing that borthers me is perhaps you could have left a little more ground near the lake but not much just a little and the middle of hte image seems to be darker then the edges which looks kind of weird a little to much brown but not a whole lot just a slight adjustment but sometimes you can only push it so far. I've had a few images like that where no matter what I tried I coudln't get rid of it.