awfulsteelmelon
Road split (720nm false-color)
Using this setup and corresponding workflow for some years now, I'm amazed and shocked that: I still blunder and make mistakes but also still discover ways of improvement (which are perhaps 2 ways of saying the same thing?).
This is more nerd-talk (feel free to skip): I think I found the reason for my increased struggle with artefacts in the sky with the latest panoramas. And it was an "improvement" on one level. π
I stopped developing the raw sources like it was the final thing or look, and treated it more like a preparatory step for stitching: get rid of clipping, reducing dynamic range, making the pano as well-behaved as possible (which often means flat and dull looking, but that's ok at this stage), exploiting the RAW format.
However, this also made these artefacts prominent and persistent. Some changes are made during and for stitching (not necessarily for aesthetics) and post-stitching I'm with TIFF.
Trimming/cropping in Ps due to huge size, perhaps some tweaking already, then final development in Lr, multiple b&w conversions, usually more crops etc.
So I re-worked this project (meaning I already did it back then) and noticed the seamless sky right away, realizing, I need to preserve the natural IR shadows and blacks in RAW format as much as possible! It's not the ultimate solution (for this panoramic layout), but it helps greatly with the artefacts and the shadows are usually not the problem, I just need to check the highlights in RAW, to leave some room for the final development to not blow them out there.
Ergo: While this might not be the best "composition", I'm quite pleased with the development and used a (false-)color scheme I haven't in a while. This view is a bit further back (where I could utilize the shade of the trees) as this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/197010762@N05/53120245794/in/dateta...
Technically, the source of this is a 36-piece mercator projection (trimmed 20791 x 12375px, ~257,3MP) that I vertically cropped to about 214,5MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,5sec
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)
Road split (720nm false-color)
Using this setup and corresponding workflow for some years now, I'm amazed and shocked that: I still blunder and make mistakes but also still discover ways of improvement (which are perhaps 2 ways of saying the same thing?).
This is more nerd-talk (feel free to skip): I think I found the reason for my increased struggle with artefacts in the sky with the latest panoramas. And it was an "improvement" on one level. π
I stopped developing the raw sources like it was the final thing or look, and treated it more like a preparatory step for stitching: get rid of clipping, reducing dynamic range, making the pano as well-behaved as possible (which often means flat and dull looking, but that's ok at this stage), exploiting the RAW format.
However, this also made these artefacts prominent and persistent. Some changes are made during and for stitching (not necessarily for aesthetics) and post-stitching I'm with TIFF.
Trimming/cropping in Ps due to huge size, perhaps some tweaking already, then final development in Lr, multiple b&w conversions, usually more crops etc.
So I re-worked this project (meaning I already did it back then) and noticed the seamless sky right away, realizing, I need to preserve the natural IR shadows and blacks in RAW format as much as possible! It's not the ultimate solution (for this panoramic layout), but it helps greatly with the artefacts and the shadows are usually not the problem, I just need to check the highlights in RAW, to leave some room for the final development to not blow them out there.
Ergo: While this might not be the best "composition", I'm quite pleased with the development and used a (false-)color scheme I haven't in a while. This view is a bit further back (where I could utilize the shade of the trees) as this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/197010762@N05/53120245794/in/dateta...
Technically, the source of this is a 36-piece mercator projection (trimmed 20791 x 12375px, ~257,3MP) that I vertically cropped to about 214,5MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,5sec
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)