Sliver of rock (IR mono)

Towards the end of March, I'm on a ridge (with view obviously) and between me and the timbered ridge (a power line must go up there it seems) is actually a basin with a lake; and behind all that, more valleys, basins with a river until the mountains, about 35km away.

For all that, the quality is ok-ish I think, but the infrared spectrum helps getting rid of haze etc.

 

This is, again, one of those cumbersome panos where I have to switch the tripod head 180° so that the momentum of the long and heavy 80-200mm doesn't unscrew the mount plate from the body. So I have to use the levers of the tripod in reverse which is really weird (but good for the brain I guess) after using it for over 10 years the normal way.

And at effectively 300mm, things have to be rather precise. That's also one of the reasons why I don't want totally beat up vintage glass, cause dealing with zoom-creep on top of such a situation can be an actual problem!

 

 

Technically this is a single row 5-piece cylindrical projection in portrait orientation, 12166 x 4296px ~52,3MP, with a panoramic crop down to 8960 x 4242px, 38MP.

 

Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)

Zoom-NIKKOR 80-200mm f/4 AI-S

Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)

ISO250, 200mm, f/8, 1,3 sec

(thus 300mm full frame equivalent)

regular tripod with 3-way head, remote

Done