Rob Studdert Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:05:31 -0800
[...about pano of The Gawler Ranges...]
Great picture, Rob. Crisp and contrasty all over the place, except at
the rightmost 3rd, but well, there must be a place on the picture where
the sun is in the back. In this case, fortunately it's the least
interesting place in your image, and it doesn't show much.
The image spans a view of approximately 230° x 80° and as such given the high
contrast of the scene the sky is somewhat burnt out in parts. The beauty is
that I have plenty of scope now to crop plus I could potentially repair the sky
if I had the time or patience.
I faced the same issue a while ago with a pano picture. (I did a post
here a few months ago as a PESO submission).
http://www.lacouture.nom.fr/gallery/v/PESO/Bertagne002-small.jpg.html
(be sure you see it in "full size", which is actuall reduced to 50%)
I wanted to have the sun in the frame, and be well-exposed all over the
frame.
I sorted out the thing at shooting time, by doing two exposures of the
whole pano, one measured for the sun, the other measured for the other
direction (on tripod, of course).
Then used Hugin to stitch the two panos at the same time (as a single
pano, output as multiple TIFFs), then enblended into a separate pano for
each exposure. Then I merged these two panos with PS using appropriate
layers and masks.
Shooting raw greatly helped fine-tuning the two exposures for a good blend.
I'm not completely happy with it, as there is still some hint of the 2
exposures blending. However it's still much better than what I would
have achieved with a single exposure.
Not sure this helps with your image, but might for a future one.
Best regards
Patrice
