Fog Lifting Composite of 6 Images

Early morning fog from my friend's front porch. Always such a wonderful view the fog covers a lake down in the valley. This is a composite of 6 images, it's too bad that images are constrained to 1024 pixels wide... so here is 1/15th of the actual size.

Best regards,

-Charlie

I matched the color between the individual images the best I could, and

did some blending between them.

The full size would be several feet long. I was wondering if it would be

worth printing out at full size? Are there any areas that I need to work on

the color?

I look forward to your comments,

Best regards,

Charlie

Charlie: I don't see any stitching errors on the image posted here. But on such a small version of the full image it might be hard to tell. What stitching software were you using?  Did you do your work in that software or afterwards? Panoramas are fun to play with. Depending on your computing horsepower, you may stitch many images together. I think so far the most I've done is about 40 of them. Exploring this capability is worth all the time spent -- at least in my mind. I think panoramas come much closer to representing how our mind grasps scenes. Our brains are constantly assembling all of the images our eyes take in.

If you shot in full manual mode (including white balance), there shouldn't be any color issues.  If you didn't shoot in manual mode but did shoot in raw, you can set all of the parameters to be the same when you convert.  It's difficult to see any problems (or lack of problems) at this small scale, but I like what I see.

Thank you all!

John,

I agree with you regarding panoramas. I've always been fascinated by them since I was a kid. This is actually 6 images stitched together. At the moment I'm getting by with my 10 year old laptop, so I am limited somewhat in what I've been able to do. I used the photomerge command in Photoshop CS2. It aligns them, for you, feathers the edge, and merges them into one image. It didn't exactly workout, but there is a choice to preserve the images as layers. This just aligns them so you can trim and blend them as needed. Then I played with each layer's brightness, contrast, curves, and used the "color match" adjustment, I lowered saturation of some images, but at the end I added some saturation to the whole thing. 

Stephen,

It's funny, as I was trying to stitch these up, and trying get the colors to match up I was asking myself why I didn't shoot it all in manual. It didn't occur to me at the time. When I looked outside and saw the fog like this the excitement overwhelmed me and my amateur brain turned off. I had the camera in full auto ...but they miraculously were all f11 and 1/250. So I have to remember to set the white balance as well.

My concerns were mainly how the trees on the left are more green, and the trees on the right are reddish. The fog also changes in saturation. I think this is all probably just the angle of the light. I wasn't completely sure because there is a seam a little right of center about where the colors start to change. Starting from the RAW images is a great idea! At this point I'm not ready to throw this version out, but I want to try it out.

Unfortunately, I didn't save a version before I adjusted the colors. This is mostly because of computer hardware constraints. 

Best regards,

Charlie

Nicely done. I might have tried the 6 image pan in portrait mode but this is still very appealing!