Based upon peoples' suggestions last week, I ended up hiking to Brainard Lake for sunrise Saturday a week ago. There was a moderate amount of haze so the alpenglow was a bit lackluster. I took the photos that comprise this image just a bit after sunrise.
This is my first stich using 16 bit images. In truth, this was created from 6 images. I took two exposures of three images to create a pano. I individually merged the images first for dynamic range, then I let CS3 do an photomerge. The images were taken with a Pentax 67ii, 75mm lens and Velvia 100 and were scanned in at 4000 ppi with a Nikon 9000 ED scanner. Photoshop took 1 hr to merge the photos, but it would have taken me much longer on my own as I used to do with PS Elements 3. It did a pretty good job and I only had a few edits to make the stich seamless.
From there I eliminated some minor distortion, cropped and performed some minor post processing. The file sizes were upwards of 2.6 gigs (I've got a decent computer but I was wondering if my processor and RAM were going to burst into flames), so each operation would take 5 or 10 minutes.
Anyway..., not the most spectacular image and probably not my favorite of the day, but I wanted to see how CS3 would hand a large stich with 16 bit files.
Thanks for looking and thanks again for the suggestions on where to go.
90 views and no comments? That's criminal! Great shot here, Steve-o. Your workmanship with putting six images together in multiple stages is also impressive.
Well done Steve. It feels a little tight at the top. I figure you cropped it close because the sky had no clouds, but a snitch more sky wouldn't hurt. At least I don't think so.
Thanks for the feedback. Doug - you are correct, I did crop from the top a moderate amount. There was also some FG that I cropped where the ice was a little less interesting. I'll try some crops with a bit more room at the top.
Very nice, Steve - I like the gradient of tone and color left to right. Great control of the contrast too. I agree with Doug that a scoche more room at the top wouldn't hurt.
I was surprised by the small # of comments, too. But, long holiday weekends are always slow on the forum - lots of lookers, but the regular posters are usually off shooting somewhere.
Nice job with the stitch. I've never been able to make stitching film or combining multiple scan exposures work for me. I like this spot best with some clouds as in Rick's example, but agree you might want to include a little more blue sky at the top. I like how you got bits of reflection here & there.
Tony - stitching scanned film can be pretty hard. I've only had PS Elements 3.0 previously and I've never had a version of CS until now with CS3. I didn't make any tonal adjustments after CS3 did it's blend, which is incredibly impressive to me. That process used to take me hours. In this particular case, it is all the more impressive because I blended photographs together before trying the stich. There's no way I blended the three images exactly the same each time. I was worried about how CS3 would handle that aspect, but it came through with flying colors!
I have a different single photo that has more of a reflection, so I'll post that one later.
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8 repliesThis is my first stich using 16 bit images. In truth, this was created from 6 images. I took two exposures of three images to create a pano. I individually merged the images first for dynamic range, then I let CS3 do an photomerge. The images were taken with a Pentax 67ii, 75mm lens and Velvia 100 and were scanned in at 4000 ppi with a Nikon 9000 ED scanner. Photoshop took 1 hr to merge the photos, but it would have taken me much longer on my own as I used to do with PS Elements 3. It did a pretty good job and I only had a few edits to make the stich seamless.
From there I eliminated some minor distortion, cropped and performed some minor post processing. The file sizes were upwards of 2.6 gigs (I've got a decent computer but I was wondering if my processor and RAM were going to burst into flames), so each operation would take 5 or 10 minutes.
Anyway..., not the most spectacular image and probably not my favorite of the day, but I wanted to see how CS3 would hand a large stich with 16 bit files.
Thanks for looking and thanks again for the suggestions on where to go.
I was surprised by the small # of comments, too. But, long holiday weekends are always slow on the forum - lots of lookers, but the regular posters are usually off shooting somewhere.
I have a different single photo that has more of a reflection, so I'll post that one later.