Crater Lake Pano

Please view larger to see the intended colors and detail. This

posting is credited to Tony Hadley, who aptly noticed that the first

one, immediately following this, has a really messy looking front

right corner. As a pano, the image generated is uneven around the

edges and has seriously missing parts along the perimeter. In this

image, I used the CS6 Content-Aware fill tool to let the program

rebuild the missing parts of the image. I needed to run the content-

aware fill several times in the front and had difficulty achieving an

even sky With patience and persistence the image worked out

fairly well. I hope you agree. Your comments are welcome and

needed. If you have other advice about dealing with the missing

edges of the image, I'd appreciate hearing it. Thanks, again, Tony

Hadley. Larry

Grandeur view!  The foreground gives a very perspective scene.  Best Regards,

Amazing landscape view, excellent picture. It has improved from the previous version due to your delicate post process efforts. Congratulations!

Looks fabulous to me. Congrats!

I don't know how it looked when you started, but the finished article looks really good. I think its very difficult to convey such large scale grandeur when it comes to landscapes, many times what we see with our eyes just doesn't convert to a photograph. Here I suspect it does! 

Very well done! 

Alf 

Wangan and Karoly,   Thanks for your visits.  I especially appreciate your compliments because of all the work involved in fixing the edges and sky.  Best to you both.  Larry

Tony,   The credit for this improvement goes to you for offering poignant criticism of my original image.  Larry

Alf,   Thanks for your visit.  This is what the scene looks like with some minor variations required because of the stitching issues on the pano.  The difficulty in shooting the image - maybe you have some advice for me - is that in panning across (there are four images stitched together)  it is necessary to straighten the horizon on each of the four takes.  This is because turning the camera on the tripod using the ball head changes the orientation of the image each time the camera is moved using the swivel on the ball head.  I think that a result is that in the final stitched pano there's a great deal of blank space around the edges to creatively either fill or crop.  I used the content-aware tool for much of this, and also resorted to the cloning tool to smooth out the sky.   Any advice or thoughts?    Thanks, Alf.   Larry

The only thing I could suggest is that the camera is centred perfectly on the tripod before you pan. The virtual horizon on the  Nikon D700 or D800 was very useful  for this. The D800 version is much improved with back and foreward levels as well as lateral levels. I am not sure if the D7000 has this feature, or if it would make any significant difference, but maybe worth a try, even if attempted manually. Of course the subject angle in relation to the camera is critical and whilst perfect level of the camera can be achieved, it might then not prove to be aesthetically pleasing when looking through the viewfinder.

Best Regards 

Alf 

Alf,  Thanks. Larry

I love it!

Such an amazing sight Larry. I read the History of this lake on your previous image. I think I would have been 'awestruck' with this Panorama before me. The cars look so small, you were very high up!!!

Gail,  I hadn't thought about the size of the cars; you are right; they are an indication of height.  I hiked up to the watchman tower.  I don't think it was too far, maybe a .7 of a mile or 1KM walk each way with a reasonable elevation climb.  I appreciate your observation because the cars do indicate scale of height.   I enjoyed your Lola image and commented on it.  Best to you all. Larry

The initial impression is so inspiring that it's easy to just sit back and enjoy this image.  But since you asked for opinions, I took a particularly close look at this from a technical standpoint.  It looks absolutely seamless to me.  The only thing I see is the cloud in the UL just above the mountain.  There are grey horizontal striations in the cloud.  Perhaps they were there, but I'm just mentioning it because I don't think I've ever seen a cloud with that type of pattern in it.  I'd say this is some impressive work!  I want to learn how to do this eventually.  It's the only way to really capture some of the grander vistas. 

Larry, I hope you and your family enjoy a wonderful holiday season, and all the best in the New Year (both personally and photographically!).

Christal,

Thanks,  Happy Holidays and New Year to you too. I look forward to our sharing images in 2014.  Larry