The Ribordone falls.

Hello everyone, these are the falls of Robordone stream in Val

Chiusella, Piedmont, Italy. I took this picture yesterday evening, on a

very foggy and somewhat rainy day (16th of June!!).

This is a stitch of 8 horizontal frames, 4 rows of two pictures each. The

original file is about 7000x5800 pixels, quite an experiment!

 

Your c&c are highly appreciated, thanks for your time.

Paolo

 

Details: Eos 400D, Sigma 24-70 f2,8 EX-DG, tripod.

Nice job! That would have killed my computer.

 

 

 

Beautiful shot too.

 

Great shot Paolo, lovely mood and atmosphere. Also very well processed. I could do with a few tips on stitching seamlessly as you have done here.

 

Best wishes, Dave.

7/6 Anonymous - Ottima composizione e buona la saturazione dei colori! Uno scatto da incorniciare.

Splendida foto realizzata con grande maestria..

I'm going to start calling you the tailor or the seamstor because of your phenominal stitched panos. I like this one because of all the detail included. When these come together, they represent a file that is probably close to a medium or large format camera. I have not tried the double row pano yet. Does photomerge assemble these also or do you have to manually blend. I guess you could let photomerge assemble each row separately, then combine the resulting two files manually or let photomerge have at it again. Anyway, very striking images you are compiling. Very nice work!!

Bravo, Paolo ... !! Bellisima !! ... Regards.

Thank you all for commenting on this, I really appreciate that.

Mark, yes, stitching 8 frames on 4 rows produces a final result that can be compared, in terms of resolution at least, to the large format. I could print this picture as large as 40"x32" with still a native resolution (without interpolation) of almost 180 dpi! About merging, I can tell you that, if you work carefully on the field, PS is able to merge multiple rows flawlessly. I have noticed the trick is to make a lot of overlapping between the rows.

Stitching multiple rows together gives you also another enormous advantage: an amazingly increase in depth of field at wide apertures. This is another thing comparable to what you get from a view camera by tilting the lens and/or the back. For example, all the frames composing this pictures were taken at f8 with a 24-70 lens, on a very foggy, overcast and thus dark evening. I didn't want to blur too much the water, but that was impossible if I had to depict the scene in a single frame, because I would have needed to close at least at f16. With this technique, I've been able to set just 1/3 of a second as exposure time at f8, and everything is still perfectly on focus throughout the scene. I really enjoy this technique, and I think I will carry on with experimenting.

 

Cheers, Paolo