Posted by John Williams on September 10, 2007 at 10:35 AM
A good friend has property on High Prairie (between Lyle and Goldendale WA), and we spent a morning there earlier this year taking photos.
Camera: NIKON D80
Exposure: 1/30
F Number: 22.0
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
(stitched photo)
John W. Williams
Posted by Eric Hahl on September 10, 2007 at 11:13 AM
I'm liking it John, very nice light. The techs says it stitched, how was this shot?
Posted by Mark Windom on September 10, 2007 at 2:19 PM
Terrific pastoral scene. The high clouds make for an interesting sky. I might be tempted to crop just a bit from the right.
Posted by Rick Lundh on September 10, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Hey, cool lines. The sky is great too, but maybe cropping it down to emphasize the flowers would make this a little stronger...
Posted by Erik Lundh on September 10, 2007 at 4:47 PM
John,
The overlapping V in the foreground hills puts this over the top. I think this is excellent.
Posted by John Williams on September 10, 2007 at 5:05 PM
Thanks Mark, Rick, and Erik. The cropping suggestion is excellent and duly noted.
Eric, this was from a 3x10 grid that I shot with an inexpensive panorama head (KingPano). I shot the photos vertically, overlapping ~1/3 between columns and rows. I stitched it with PTAssembler, and blended it with Enblend (I think, I sometimes use SmartBlend too).
I used the sharpening technique Marc describes in the PNWNP Tips, with just a bit of LCE on the sky and far mountains added. When stitching, I find it hard to keep detail when downsizing these large photos for the web. For reference, here are a 50% crop of flowers in the LLC, and a 100% crop of the barn.
Posted by John Williams on September 10, 2007 at 5:06 PM
Here's the barn.
Posted by Eric Hahl on September 10, 2007 at 7:28 PM
Wow, thats got some serious detail. Very cool!
Posted by Randy Hanna on September 10, 2007 at 11:35 PM
John: Great job with the pano and the stitching. I'll have to look into Smart Blend.
Posted by Adrian Klein on September 10, 2007 at 11:35 PM
I like the image quite a bit. I personally would not crop it. The sky and FG flowers help make the image for me. And yes the detail here is excellent!
Posted by John Williams on September 11, 2007 at 12:30 AM
Thanks again all!
Randy, in my experience Enblend does better with smooth areas such as skies, and with large areas of high contrast. Smartblend, on the other hand, can be amazing with movement (e.g.- flowers blowing) and parallax.
Discussion
11 repliesCamera: NIKON D80
Exposure: 1/30
F Number: 22.0
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
(stitched photo)
John W. Williams
The overlapping V in the foreground hills puts this over the top. I think this is excellent.
Eric, this was from a 3x10 grid that I shot with an inexpensive panorama head (KingPano). I shot the photos vertically, overlapping ~1/3 between columns and rows. I stitched it with PTAssembler, and blended it with Enblend (I think, I sometimes use SmartBlend too).
I used the sharpening technique Marc describes in the PNWNP Tips, with just a bit of LCE on the sky and far mountains added. When stitching, I find it hard to keep detail when downsizing these large photos for the web. For reference, here are a 50% crop of flowers in the LLC, and a 100% crop of the barn.
Randy, in my experience Enblend does better with smooth areas such as skies, and with large areas of high contrast. Smartblend, on the other hand, can be amazing with movement (e.g.- flowers blowing) and parallax.