Distant Mountain Sunset

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 21, 2015182 views5 comments

PLEASE click on the image above to see a larger view!

I try to avoid 1:3 panoramas, but sometimes ya just gotta go w i d e . This is stitch of 7 vertical frames shot from a northern NY fire tower, looking west to the Adirondack High Peaks Wilderness areas. I always do auto-bracketing for shots with lots of sky. That allows HDR if necessary, but in this case, I selecting just two different brightness zones was easy, so I manually blended two exposures for each of the 7 vertical frames before stitching.

UPDATE: Title changed from "Far Away Mountainfire" after Paul's comment. I tried to get clever because the sky looked like it was on fire, and inadvertently created a misleading title. Large forest fires are now pretty much a thing of the past in my area now that logging practices have changed (no large areas of slash). In fact the Adirondacks have been called "the asbestos forest." Fire observation towers are now just historical relics.

Comments

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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on October 22, 2015 at 10:04 AM

Wayne, although caused by a wildfire it sure has an appealing sunset look to it. I like the pano view as it seems to cover the entire area of the horizon being affected here. We have more then our fair share of wildfires on the west coast. Hopefully our predicted El Nino brings some relief this year, although, we're already getting flash floods and mudslides all over the place on the first hard rain this year.

I do have a question about the cloud arching look. Is that natural or a cause and effect of lens distortion, stitching, or ?
The horizon looks straight, it is just the clouds that seem to curl on the ends. Not a nit at all, just curious on the look.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on October 22, 2015 at 10:13 AM

Nice sky and fine scene. I really like the realistic look of the foreground, naturally dark, yet plenty of good detail to enjoy.

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on October 22, 2015 at 10:23 AM

Paul, that's a natural sunset, not relatedd to any fire. I apologize for the misleading title; I just changed it. I tried to get to clever, making up the word "Mountainfire" because the sky looked to me like it was on fire. (Please see the "excuse" that I added to the narrative above.) The apparent curvature of the clouds is natural, too -- not a result of the stitching method, which was "cylindrical."

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 22, 2015 at 10:37 AM

That's quite the sky, Wayne, and a fine looking pano. How nice that you could catch the entire bright area in the sky as well as hints of fall color in the foreground.

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Comment posted by gary phillips on October 23, 2015 at 12:35 PM

Beautiful sky and the large version opens up the foreground with just enough detail. This is very nice, Wayne. It's hard to really get a good representation of of a big pano here, but I'll bet it will make a nice print.

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