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Racetrack Playa Panorama
After a long bone rattling drive down a 27 mile dirt road. We finally arrived at the Racetrack in Death Valley. This is the "Grandstand" located out on the flat of the Playa. This is a 14 image panorama that ended up just under 60 megapixels and I had to scale it down to 30% of it's original size just to get it to upload. During the scaling process the image softened up a bit, proving that there is such thing as too much of a good thing. One things for sure, I won't have any problems with large print files. It occurred to me while trying to post this shot, that if you only had a ten megapixel camera and you find on awesome composition, you could shoot a square pano and end up with a much more printable file than shooting just one frame. Believe it or not, Wayne and I lit this whole scene using two light panels.
Hot Tip of the Day:
If you have to make an edit to an image, do it while in Lightroom, because if you open the jpeg and edit and save it again, it will lose some detail. Then save it again and save it again the fourth or fifth save which has recompressed it over and over again the image will be destroyed. And just saving a jpeg a second time renders it unusable IMHO. Go ahead, try it and watch the destruction begin. That's why every image I upload is saved as a tiff file and usually weighs in at just over 100 megabytes. I do this just in case I want or need to edit the final uploaded image I can do so without altering the quality of the image. Just thought you all should know that. :)
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!! Have a great Wednesday ahead everybody!! :)
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Racetrack Playa Panorama
After a long bone rattling drive down a 27 mile dirt road. We finally arrived at the Racetrack in Death Valley. This is the "Grandstand" located out on the flat of the Playa. This is a 14 image panorama that ended up just under 60 megapixels and I had to scale it down to 30% of it's original size just to get it to upload. During the scaling process the image softened up a bit, proving that there is such thing as too much of a good thing. One things for sure, I won't have any problems with large print files. It occurred to me while trying to post this shot, that if you only had a ten megapixel camera and you find on awesome composition, you could shoot a square pano and end up with a much more printable file than shooting just one frame. Believe it or not, Wayne and I lit this whole scene using two light panels.
Hot Tip of the Day:
If you have to make an edit to an image, do it while in Lightroom, because if you open the jpeg and edit and save it again, it will lose some detail. Then save it again and save it again the fourth or fifth save which has recompressed it over and over again the image will be destroyed. And just saving a jpeg a second time renders it unusable IMHO. Go ahead, try it and watch the destruction begin. That's why every image I upload is saved as a tiff file and usually weighs in at just over 100 megabytes. I do this just in case I want or need to edit the final uploaded image I can do so without altering the quality of the image. Just thought you all should know that. :)
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!! Have a great Wednesday ahead everybody!! :)
Please do me a "solid" and follow me on my other social sites found below: