Lush and Gorgeous! Wow.
-frank Mark Cassino wrote: > A couple weeks ago I learned about about a juried photo exhibit looking for > shots of the Kalamazoo River. I did not have anything on file so I went > out to see if I could scrape together some sort of a shot. I made a few > early morning trips out to the river, and wound up trying a panoramic shot > made by stitching three 35mm exposures together. > > I have no idea how it will fare in the jurying - but here's the result (in > greatly reduced size): > > http://www.markcassino.com/temp/pano.jpg > > The full sized scan is ~46 x 11 inches. I found some 10 inch wide Epson > paper on a roll and scaled it down to 10 x 42. Photoshop kept crashing when > I tried to print it, but Corel Photopaint was able to grind through it > OK. I wound up overlapping the three images pretty significantly - if I > had measured better and been less conservative about overlaps, it oculd > have come out several inches longer. I also had to crop it slightly > vertically where the frames did not perfectly line up. > > The biggest problem was a differential in the glare off the water in the > lower right quadrant. The middle shot had virtually no glare, but when I > rotated the camera by 60 degrees or so the camera picked up a lot of glare. > So I did a fair amount of PS work on the water and rocks there. The other > oddity is the apparent seam that runs vertically down the middle of the > image... That's smack dab in the middle of the second exposure and is just > the way the visual elements line up. Now I'm wondering if I should > Photoshop it out as a distraction, or leave it there since, well, that's > the way things looked. > > I can see doing more of this stuff in the future... > > - MCC > ----- > Mark Cassino > Kalamazoo, MI > ----- > > Photography: > > http://www.markcassino.com -- Honour - that virtue of the unjust! -Albert Camus
