Panorama

{ Berkshires }

Loyal readers will know, I love panoramas. Shoot them frequently. I think a big part of it just the fascination with CS3’s ability to stitch them togeather more than anything else. But also I love being able to crop into a much larger scene, there’s always a “nice” section somewhere in a pano. The above done this evening, and yes I’m getting software crazy. The recipe as follows:

• Handheld pano comprised of 6 photos
• Import into Lightroom 2 (beta!)
• Export to CS3 (new in Lightroom 2, export to photomerge!)
• Remove noise with Nik DFine
• Save and back to lightroom for adjustments
• Export 3 versions of +1, 0, -1 exposures for “fake” HDR
• Generate HDR and tone map in Photomatix. (I go subtle, or at least try to)
• Back to lightroom with new file and export out copy to CS3 for Silver Efex
• Back to lightroom with finished tif, export out above JPEG.

And finished. Not so bad is it? Ok, yeah it is pretty crazy.

Tagged as: hdr, panorama, photography, photomatix, photomerge, silver efex