Me and my girlfriend have just been on the week long “Nordic Fjords” cruise with Costa Cruises. I took lots of pictures (obviously), some are already in my flickr feed in the set Costa Cruise Fjordspotting.
More of that to come, but I wanted to dedicate this post to panorama photography. I shot some panorama material, not much that turned out OK, but this one is pretty neat. The dynamic range was huge, so I shot with bracketing in order to be able to do some HDR cheating afterwards. But back with my laptop on the boat, I found out that I did not need to combine the exposures anyways – the middle one was perfect. I prefer to do my stitching in PTGui, but my PTGui beta version did not wanna run, and just told me that I needed to upgrade – pretty frustrating when you have no Internet access. So the job was given to Adobe Photoshop CS3, which did an amazing job.
8 shots, 18mm, 1/3200 sec, ƒ/5.6. Final result is 13456*3890px.
Post processing: Sharpen, crop and some S-curves with masks on sky and select parts of the snow.
Tags: panorama