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False bend (720nm infrared)
Okay, this one was a ride (to develop), ..again. Part 7 of the "lost gorge series", in no particular order, but this is still from the 1st 1/3 of the gorge.
Felt kind of ambivalent about the whole thing. For one, I'm pleased that I could 'keep it together', and not totally blow out hightlights and / or shadows.
By the way, these panos are all one exposure in terms of settings, I'd rather spend more time doing some tests (into the bright areas, into the shadows etc. and then find a middle ground based on the histogram) and optimizing things, than mess around during the sequence, that's asking for troubles. It was necessary to do some local developments (top, middle and bottom row came out very different), which I try to avoid and only do if it is promising, cause this escalates quickly with that number of images.
I felt compelled to show it all, but the false-color development got really busy with tons of details and a bit too HDR-y for my taste, but technically it really is even though I did not do any bracketing. I aim at making it look natural though, well as natural as an IR false-color pano can be. I had to stand back for a little bit until I got the courage to crop, which ultimately made the image more digestible, less visually stimulating, highlighting the essential parts that sort of help anchor the eye also, I think.
The stream makes just a slight bend here, most of which you can see in the pano is due to the wide horizontal angle (maybe around 240°) and also due to being in the lower part of the panorama.
Can you find the small sandy batch to the right, this little island in the pool?
You can see it here in this pano to the left, displaying how different things can look, depending on the angle and technique:
www.flickr.com/photos/197010762@N05/53600737132/in/datepo...
Technically it's a 33 piece mercator projection, ~341,5MP, finished to 8:5 with 18696 x 11685px, ~218,5MP
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO250, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,8sec
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)
False bend (720nm infrared)
Okay, this one was a ride (to develop), ..again. Part 7 of the "lost gorge series", in no particular order, but this is still from the 1st 1/3 of the gorge.
Felt kind of ambivalent about the whole thing. For one, I'm pleased that I could 'keep it together', and not totally blow out hightlights and / or shadows.
By the way, these panos are all one exposure in terms of settings, I'd rather spend more time doing some tests (into the bright areas, into the shadows etc. and then find a middle ground based on the histogram) and optimizing things, than mess around during the sequence, that's asking for troubles. It was necessary to do some local developments (top, middle and bottom row came out very different), which I try to avoid and only do if it is promising, cause this escalates quickly with that number of images.
I felt compelled to show it all, but the false-color development got really busy with tons of details and a bit too HDR-y for my taste, but technically it really is even though I did not do any bracketing. I aim at making it look natural though, well as natural as an IR false-color pano can be. I had to stand back for a little bit until I got the courage to crop, which ultimately made the image more digestible, less visually stimulating, highlighting the essential parts that sort of help anchor the eye also, I think.
The stream makes just a slight bend here, most of which you can see in the pano is due to the wide horizontal angle (maybe around 240°) and also due to being in the lower part of the panorama.
Can you find the small sandy batch to the right, this little island in the pool?
You can see it here in this pano to the left, displaying how different things can look, depending on the angle and technique:
www.flickr.com/photos/197010762@N05/53600737132/in/datepo...
Technically it's a 33 piece mercator projection, ~341,5MP, finished to 8:5 with 18696 x 11685px, ~218,5MP
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO250, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,8sec
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)