Death Valley pano
broby6
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Here is a 21 pic pano shot in portrait orientation using a tripod. I did a little post-processing in ACR (I just acquired Photoshop) and then used hugin to create the pano. The pics were shot at 1/400 at F8.
The shots were taken at Dante's Point on the east side of Death Valley.
The dark ridge to the left (south) seems to have a funny blue cast that I couldn't correct. Any suggestions of comments?
Bob Roby
The shots were taken at Dante's Point on the east side of Death Valley.
The dark ridge to the left (south) seems to have a funny blue cast that I couldn't correct. Any suggestions of comments?
Bob Roby
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If it was a clear day you can see some peaks in both the Sierras and Inyos in your original of the picture. You can see some of them labeled here:
http://dbdimages.smugmug.com/photos/268515371_JP7Kw-X3.jpg
Look at the skyline beyond the salt flats. The bumpy area on the Panamint skyline there is the Augerebury Point area. Some 14,000' peaks in the Sierra show on either side of Augerebury. Unfortunately, Mt Whitney is blocked by the Panamint ridge.
Dale B. Dalrymple
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About the funny blue cast...
The first thing you might consider is whether your white balance is correct for the overcast conditions. Even with that correct , however, the funny blue cast will be there.
The blue cast comes from the same effect that makes the sky blue. Bright light passing through air molecules is scattered. Short blue wavelengths are scattered more than the longer red. The high vantage point of Dante's View allows you to photograph much longer sightlines than is normally possible. The dark background shows it well.
The rocks low at the far right are lighter in color and brightly lit so the additional blue light soesn't show. The darker side and back lit rocks at the far left show the blue well.
Correcting the blue at the far left can be approached by subtracting a little blue (not scaling the blue). The tricky part is masking the process so the it is applied only to distant objects and more strongly to more distant objects.
Its always good to have some of the effect, as you do, so that people will get the idea of the great distance you are presenting to them.
Nice shot, good choice of location.
Dale B. Dalrymple
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Dale, I followed your suggestion and used your labeled pano to identify some of the distant peaks in my picture. Thanks for including that link. It was nice to be able to put names to them. Some were pretty easy to see because they still had snow on them when I shot them earlier in March.
I thought about trying to tweak the blue cast on the left, but I'm a photoshop novice and I was concerned that I'd screw it up worse. Anyway I've got a lot more Death Valley pics to process and you have given me an excellent reason for leaving the pano alone. Thanks again for your comments.
Bob Roby
If you are intersted in the Telescope Peak area there are some labels here:
http://dbdimages.smugmug.com/photos/125074935_wxFJY-O.jpg
I prepared this for a friend planning a hike from Shorty's well (-250') to Telescope Peak (11,049').
Dale B. Dalrymple
http://dbdimages.com
...with apology to Archimedies