new photos: june 2005 Clouds, Lake McDonald

Thanks.

I like both, but this would be my favourite if I had to chose. The clouds are just too beautiful to be cropped by the landscape format - and their reflections should be shown, on the other side. Maybe its too static, but I tried a pano of both shots, what do you think ?

Carsten, I think it looks great--it would certainly allow me to make a very nice print of about a meter long. Now, can you point me to where I can learn to stitch? I'm using Photoshop CS. Thanks for your suggestion: it was much appreciated.

This was a quick job with Canon`s PhotoStitch software that came with my 300D, quite easy but you need two images of the same size. With PS CS, you could open both images, then File >> Automate >> Photomerge and use the option "save as layers". You could work on the blending zones with a gradient layers mask and the brush then, more versatile than the PhotoStitch sw. Probably the best solution is PtGUI v3.7, a PanoTools graphic user interface that handles 16 bit/channel TIFFs (the other sw does not, even PS CS Photomerge not !) and it is extremely powerful. You can create really large prints, stitching is fun.

 

Regards

 

Carsten

Beautiful b&w landscape nicely captured. To me just great as it is ...

Carsten, thanks for your suggestions on stitching--I'll try it this weekend! I'm pretty good with basic PS functions, but nothing real complex!