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Subject: [Leica] Ansel Adams Wilderness
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:40:34 +0100
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Paul,

one more. How did you do Thousand Island Lake? same approach?

Peter

On 18/08/2012 05:18, Paul Roark wrote:
> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> ...
>>>> Sun over Lake Ediza was 15 frames -- two rows of 7 plus one for the
>>>> sun.<<<<<
>>
>> Are you saying this photo is a combination of 15 frames stitched in camera
>> or Photoshop of some kind?
> 
> Yes.  That image is 10,951 by 8,603 pixels -- very large.  But I use a
> substantial overlap; so it's not nearly as large as 14 full frames
> side by side.
> 
> I used Photoshop CS5 to combine the frames.  But, the fully automatic
> stitching did not work very well when all the primary 14 frames were
> thrown into the program at once.  What I found worked best is to first
> stitch the bottom row that has the lake in it.  With this row I
> leveled each frame prior to stitching them.  I used the ruler tool
> with its "straighten" option, and used the shoreline of the lake as a
> guide.  Once the bottom row frames were level, the PS automatic
> stitching, set to cylindrical, worked very well.  I next stitched the
> top row by itself using the PS automatic system.  The result needed
> some work and was then manually stitched to the bottom row.  Finally
> the sun frame was added manually.   Obviously the sun was *much*
> brighter than anything else.  So, the relatively values of the print
> are highly compressed in that region.
> 
> Thank you all for your comments.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
> 
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