A panorama landscape and a sunset

[thewayne]

Man, it's been two weeks since I've done any significant photo processing and posting?!

As always, clicken to embiggen.


This is what I'm calling my April Fool's sunset because I shot it on April Fool's Day this year. I was coming out of the library at 7pm, closing time, and the sun was right behind the clouds, perfect for shooting a five-shot bracketed exposure. I omitted the two overexposed shots to emphasize the dark tones, and I quite like the result.



This is the panorama that broke my iMac! It's a stitch of twenty portrait photos that sweep approximately 90 degrees of the horizon! I came out for lunch and saw the plumes of white dust being kicked up spaced out, and thought it would make a heck of a photo. Then, after processing it in Photoshop, I thought it would look pretty cool as a sepia tone, which is not something that I do often. I did the toning in DxO's Film Pack 5, which has some VERY spiffy adjustment capability.

The second photo is 66" long! I'd suggest taking your browser to full-screen and filling it, it's a pretty cool pic.

Comments

[howsmyenglish]

I really liked them both!
(even though I'm only looking at them on my phone)

[thewayne]

Danke!  Phones have pretty impressive displays.  We do get some great sunsets around here, it becomes a question of timing and having the right equipment on-hand to capture it.  That's why I have a $400 camera in my pocket at almost all times when I'm out and about.

[silveradept]

Both of those pictures look great. The panorama I could see as someone's desktop background, especially in a multi-monitor setup.

[thewayne]

That could be interesting, spanning a background across multiple monitors. I haven't had a multi-monitor setup in several years, I just switched to using big monitors. We'll see if maybe I get a chance if I get the job with the school district.

[seasonoftowers]

Damn, love the colours on the sunset. Will have to check the panorama on a bigger screen

[thewayne]

Thanks!  Yeah, I was quite pleased.  It's kinda funny, but you can see the same mountains in the two pix.