Panoramas and HDR

This week I shot some panoramas and a couple of HDR images. For the panorama, I went out to the ridge across the street from the campus where it looks out to the far distance and you can see the train bridge in the middle. It was kind of a hazy morning. I set up my camera at 300 mm so I could see the trees in the far distance a little bit better. My shutter speed was 1/125 s, at f/20 and ISO 200.

I took about 12 frames from left to right. Then I opened them in Lightroom and had Lightroom stitch them together for me. Then I opened the DNG file in Photoshop and did some cloning to add some trees in the foreground and then I warmed up the scene so I didn't look so cold even though it is winter. Then I put a little bit of pink into the sky and increased the saturation just a tiny bit.

Spokane Panorama

I also did a panorama on campus as a test and didn’t realize it until I opened the files in Lightroom that I caught the same guy three times walking down the sidewalk. I thought that was pretty cool. Fir this panorama I only used five images stitched together.

SFCC Campus Panorama

High Bridge HDR

For the HDR image I went down to Latah Valley and took a picture of the High Bridge. I took one image at a normal exposure and then 3 images under exposed and 3 images over exposed. Then I took them into Lightroom and had Lightroom merge them together.

Even though Lightroom adjusts the darks and the lights and the shadows and the highlights I thought the shadows could be lightened up a little bit so I did that in photoshop . For this image my camera settings were 28mm, 1/800 s, f/22 at ISO 100. I darkened the sky a little to make it more blue and increased the saturation a little to make it not so dull. If you look closely you can see ghost images of the bus crossing the bridge but I thought that was cool so I left it in.