Crater Lake pano

ElaineElaine Registered Users Posts: 3,532 Major grins
edited August 14, 2010 in Landscapes
We visited Crater Lake last week. This is a five-shot pano stitched in CS3. I didn't have the luxury of choosing what time of day I would shoot this (11:20 am), but I was just glad to get a decent view of the whole thing! It is a stunning place!

(If this is too large, let me know and I'll shrink it.)

Shot with the Canon 40 D, 17-55 2.8 IS at f/11, 1/250, ISO 200

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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited August 13, 2010
    Gorgeous. Great job! thumb.gif
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  • brvheartbrvheart Registered Users Posts: 434 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    nice!!!!
  • squirl033squirl033 Registered Users Posts: 1,230 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    wow.... impressive! Crater Lake is indeed an amazing place, and it takes a pano to get it all in... you done good!
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  • WillCADWillCAD Registered Users Posts: 722 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    Judging by the result, I'd say that 11:20 is not a bad time of day to be shooting from that position.

    I'm sure that, like most photographers, you would have preferred some of that magnificent golden sunrise or sunset light, but the blue skies and deep blue water of mid-day are awful pretty, too.
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,942 moderator
    edited August 13, 2010
    Crater Lake is a beautiful place to go. You did a wonderful job on the pano!
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  • RobbugRobbug Registered Users Posts: 132 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    WOW - that should be on the wall ASAP
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  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    Great pano, Elaine!!! Nicely done.
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  • BlackwoodBlackwood Registered Users Posts: 313 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    very, very nice.
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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    You know I have seen Crater Lake before, but I don't think I've ever seen a shot like this that put the road and the cars in perspective. Wow the place is huge! thumb.gif
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  • kris10jokris10jo Registered Users Posts: 284 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    Wow, I think you have captured the feeling and scale of Crater Lake so well. Beautifully done.
    Kristen
  • hawkeye978hawkeye978 Registered Users Posts: 1,218 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    Nicely done!
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  • Sexy6ChickSexy6Chick Registered Users Posts: 948 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2010
    This is fantastic!
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  • ElaineElaine Registered Users Posts: 3,532 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2010
    Thank you all so much! I'm not so much of a landscape shooter, so I wasn't too confident about this, or about processing it to get the most out of it. I do wish I could have had some slightly different light/less haze, but it really is so blue, so I didn't want to mess with that. Our car is parked down in that lot! It only took about 1/2 hour to hike up to over 8,000 feet (huff and puff) to get this vantage point...well worth it. I think I read that the lake is about 5 miles across! Thanks, again, for all the comments!
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  • bhoglebhogle Registered Users Posts: 59 Big grins
    edited August 14, 2010
    you did really well - the subject is great, the lighting works, the pano is the right size, there is no banding in the sky, no or minimal blown highlights, good contrast.

    did you improve the tonal contrast at all? there doesn't look to be much haze obscuring detail in the 2/3 range of the image.

    perhaps the right side of the horizon is slightly lower than the left - but this could be just the bending effect from the super wide angle.clap.gif
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  • AndManAndMan Registered Users Posts: 1,252 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2010
    Very nice Elaine. Great place and a great job with the pano.
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  • snowman1snowman1 Registered Users Posts: 272 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2010
    Very nice photo




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  • kpagekpage Registered Users Posts: 31 Big grins
    edited August 14, 2010
    Frame it and hang it!!!!

    Omg that is beautiful! I think you were there at the PERFECT time!
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  • ElaineElaine Registered Users Posts: 3,532 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2010
    Thank you very much! I don't make prints very often, but maybe this one will go in my office.
    @ bhogle...Thank you for your comments. After the pano was stitched and cropped, I brought it back into LR3 and did some minor global adjusting of the blacks, clarity, vibrance, tone curve, sharpening, a small boost of exposure and a small graduated exposure filter to bring down the sky/clouds a bit. Just my usual raw processing with nothing fancy or specific to certain areas.
    Elaine

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