Donner Lake Long Exposure (this one was tricky to shoot and process)
Busy weekends in Tahoe are great for shots like this. This was shot last Labor Day, as all the tourist traffic was leaving the area. Hwy 80 can be seen on the left, Donner Lake and Truckee, California can also be seen on the left. The main winding road in front is Old Hwy 40 and if you look close, you can see Rainbow Bridge on the right. Oh, and the bright light is the moon of course.
17 vertical images from a Canon 5Dsr were used for this one with a lens focal length of 24mm. Each shot was 30 second long, with an ISO of 125 and an aperture of f7.1. The final pixel dimensions are 16442 x 8374, this is another one that can be printed HUGE.
This panoramic image was created using a stitching program called PTGui. I tried Photoshop's photomerge feature but it struggled with this one. With PTGui, I could line the images up better and make sure all of the lights on the road lined up and were visible. It's a great program to have if you shoot a lot of stitched panos.
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Scott Shots Photography
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"Full Moon Above Donner Lake 8" on my website HERE.
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Scott, this photo is amazing, very like Me. You have My upvote. Perfect to wallpaper on desktop ;)
Thank you @micco4 and thank you for the resteem! Glad you like that one, it was a tough image to dial in.
Scott, all your photos are great and resteam because it's worth it.
Thanks again! I'll keep them coming...
Great pano, nice to have cartrails on both sides of the frame!
I'll have to try PTGui one of these days. Sometimes Lightroom and Microsoft Ice just don't cut it!
Thank you! Yeah, the 16mm didn't quite get both so I had to do the stitched pano thing. PTGui rocks! However it can be time consuming compared to the photoshop photo merge feature. I don't bother using it for real estate 360 degree shots, if they don't line up perfectly, oh well. But when you know you may be producing a big print one day, getting that horizon smooth without any choppyness is important. So taking the time in PTGui is worth it. They offer a fully functioning trial version, it just watermarks the image.
One of these days...I'll have to get together my collection of unstitchable panos and see if it's worth my time and money. ;)
BTW, I never found PS to be very good at panos - have you tried Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor)? It's free and has always done a better job.
I have not tried ICE, I'll have to check it out. I like PS because I can work on the RAW photos and then stitch the RAW photos together, and it's fast. With PTGui, the one thing I don't like about it is that I have to save the edited RAW photos as tiffs then stitch them. Not that big of a deal really.
Well, I don't know if ICE can work with RAWs, but it often works when other software doesn't.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Beautiful picture, Scott !
Thank you @weberh8!
Love your car trail shots mate!
Thank you @intrepidphotos! They are a lot of fun to take.
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