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One of the most difficult panoramas i've made, just because of the location and extreme exposure differences from one corner of the room to the next. A 360-degree, triple-exposure HDR image that took three shooting attempts over the last several months to finally get correct. Tonemapped in Photomatix, Stitched in AutoPano Giga, cropped and corrected in Photoshop.
The abandoned pumping station I found a couple years back near South Mountain Reservation in northeast New Jersey looks like it's been there for about 80 years or so and abandoned for at least the last 20-30 of it. The inside is completely covered in graffiti, and the building itself is completely rotting away. That said, as soon as I stepped inside the first time I wanted to create this photograph, happy I finally did-- enjoy! UPDATE: A 35" x 90" 360 DPI print of this image was just selected to be shown in the PhotoSpiva 2010 Photographic Competition in Joplin, MO, from March 6 - April 25, 2010. If you're in the area, i'd love to hear your thoughts about the print! |
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Largest and most prominent mountain in the north part of the Teton Range. Located in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
Shot with Nikon D5000 and 300mm lens. |
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We used Photoshop to enhance the color and brightness of this gigapan which was uploaded originally from the Gigapan stitch files on June 10th.
Shooting Note! Because of the distance I thought I could use the infinity focus on the Nikon P90 camera, thinking this would keep the focus constant. However, time was tight to take this pan and I noticed the camera trying to focus before the shots. I did not have time to shoot it over and now can see that there are stitched areas that are sharp next to ones that are not. I won't try this infinity focus again. You are welcome to try to identify some of the peaks visible. I will do the same as time permits. Note that this image is placed in Google Earth and very closely aligned with the mountains and ridges. |
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Once again I didn't catch this at the best time of day. Nonetheless this is a spectacular spot, high above Donner Lake. Granite of the Sierra Nevada Range is rounded into domes by glacial scouring and pierced by tunnels of the Union Pacific Railroad. If you look closely there are a number of climbers scaling these faces, as well. |
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Finally the clouds have cleared enough to get a really nice view of the range front. How many cascades can you find? |
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My second gigapixel HDR image. Spent a lot of time photoshopping fast-moving details such as the cop car and a people so that very few HDR artifacts remain. Again a lot of work but really happy with the result. Enjoy! |
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From close below the Tetons, this panorama offers a detailed look at the geology of the range front. The Teton Glacier is best seen from this angle and there are a couple of mafic dikes that cut the Archean igneous and metamorphic rocks that make up the bulk of the Teton Range. Oh yeah, a few tourists and cyclists in there, too. |
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A view of the Front Range behind Colorado Springs, CO. To the left is Cheyenne Mountain with the cummunication towers on top. To the right is Garden of the Gods City Park. To the rear is Pike's Peak at 14,115 feet tall. |
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After about 3-4 days of wrestling with my computer, I finally got an hdr panorama i'm really happy with. Bracketed +/- 2.0, tone mapped as hdrs in photomatix, stiched using autopano giga, corrected and exported in photoshop. A lot of work, but I really like the result, and the fact that this would be 3.5 x 13 ft long at 250 dpi. More to come! |
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The two days that I tried to shoot the Tetons at sunrise ended up being cloudy to partly cloudy. The light was better the day I shot this one than the day before (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/30797/), but not what I was hoping for. Nonetheless, I had time to kill while the sun got to work burning off the clouds, so I went for high detail - 4.2 gigapixels worth, as it turns out. |