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From: Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: First Pano Try Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:22:01 -0400
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
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