As colors turn IV

Magnificent image.

Welldone.

Best wishes.

of your many magnificent photos, this stands out as one of my favorites. the inclusion of the bison is what really makes it, even though the scenery might be more interesting in some of the others.

i'm curious about the fact that you seem to have settled on a limited number of aspect ratios for your panoramas. i'd guess it has something to do with your intentions for printing them, but why those ratios in particular?

Hi Kevin,

I print and exhibit all the images posted on PN.

The aspect ratios are result of mainly 2 parameters: printer and standard mat board sizes. I print 10inch or 13inch wide panoramas, but some of new pans have >100MP data (good for 300dpi @24inch wide)

Having said this, I'd like to stress that the real world has no set of good aspect ratios. All my pans are made of several captures stitched together. During shooting the aspect ratio is least of my worries. When I finally have something decent enough image to print (which can take days, weeks or months of tedious work), I finally start looking into binning into one of the aspect ratios such as 3.5:1, 2.5:1 etc.

One final note, despite horrible scaling on PN, hence difficulty in viewing, I really like high aspect ratios, >= 2.5: 1. One can appreciate the additional field of view when looking one of the large prints...

Fantastic and Beautiful!!