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pittsburgh from mount washington, more than 360 degrees, "standard wide" pano presentation, 26 February 2005

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Ashley Hockenberry09-Jan-2010 17:04
AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeff B.05-Aug-2008 17:33
Fantastic panorama. Very well rendered! V
Milos Markovic01-Feb-2008 15:58
Stunning photo,
congratulations!
v.
Guest 02-Oct-2006 16:02
wow :) Well painted effect aside this is really great angle!!!!! :) :)
...duncan15-Jan-2006 01:40
That is amazing.
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rsub818-Apr-2005 19:29
AHA! I was waiting for someone to ask... ;) It was a bit more complicated than a standard pano. I decided to go all out. I used the D70 auto-bracketing (plus and minus 1 stop, aperture priority). The NEFs were individually opened, and I spatially registered the over/underexposed images with respect to the middle bracketed image. The shifts needed were up to about 5 pixels. I saved these three images as 16-bit TIFF files. I loaded these into Photomatix Pro and created an HDR image. Then I converted this into an enhanced-dynamic range 16-bit TIFF (I used pretty much the default settings of Photomatix). I had to go through this procedure for each one of the 'slices' in the pano, before finally stitching the generated high dynamic range images. I think if I did this again, I would use a wider bracketing step. Hope that helps to answer your question...
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Eric18-Apr-2005 16:44
How did you achieve this "painted" look? Panorama aside, I've been aspiring to create this effect for a long time. Contrast mask? Shadow recovery? The dynamic range is so wide!
EMangl15-Apr-2005 01:38
fantastic !
rsub805-Apr-2005 21:01
Thanks, Ernst! I have visited your galleries many times, and I will say that they have inspired this effort. Making a pano is a bit of a task, and I am thinking of a few more places for this activity, for the future. But I don't anticipate making too many panos.

I actually prefer the "tiled" version from the gallery. Please check it out. I find it more like scrolling visually down a printed page, and am a bit surprised that the "wide" pano still is the predominant format. Personally, my mind "forgets" what its seen by the time you've scrolled from left to right in a really wide pano. In the tiled, just have to scan visually downward. Only so much can be taken in in a "wide" view.

This was my first pano (I really hate using a tripod, it's a bitter pill for me), and I'm quite humbled that folks have enjoyed this image. It was a lot of work, seems that it was worth it. Thanks again.
Ernst Sch04-Apr-2005 11:49
I enjoyed so much to see another "more than 360 degrees" pano. I have also exceeded the 360 mark on some of my panoramas.
Gary Winters04-Apr-2005 02:17
Wow! fabulous!
rsub803-Apr-2005 17:44
Thanks for the nice comments! In fact, the "painting" comment is what most people say when I show them an A3 (13" x 19") print (made with the tiled version from the original resolution image).
Sam X03-Apr-2005 01:52
I think I need a biger monitor. Very Nice
Guest 03-Apr-2005 01:45
Thats gorgeous, almost looks as though it is a painting!