I took the featured photograph throughout my hike alongside the Panorama Path in Kodachrome State Park in Utah. I featured the situation in my earlier submit just a few weeks in the past: Secret Passage in Kodachrome
It was my very first exploration of the Kodachrome space and Panorama Path specifically. I didn’t know what to anticipate, however I knew it was a protracted (10miles/16km) huge open path in 30C (90F) diploma climate at an elevation of 2000m (6500feet) above sea degree.
I made a decision to hike as mild as attainable. I took with me Fujifilm XT2 digital camera and just one lens Fujinon 18-135mm. And I even left my tripod at a campsite as a result of I used to be not planning to hike till sundown.
The hike was exhausting due to the warmth, however I had a good time, managing to seize some fascinating images.
However after I reached the Secret Passage space of the hike, I spotted that I had a problem to unravel.
The Secret Passage is a tiny space surrounded by tall rock formations, and I wanted an extremely huge angle lens to seize something significant.
The answer was to seize a number of photographs and merge them into huge angle panorama in Lightroom or Photoshop throughout post-processing.
That was exactly what I did, and it labored flawlessly.
Capturing
The rock formation I needed to seize had minimal area in entrance of it. Once I was leaning towards the other wall, the shot’s topic was so shut I nearly might attain it with my hand.
My authentic plan was to take 3, a most of 4 photographs, to create a large angle panorama. After just a few makes an attempt, I spotted that I would like extra photographs to cowl a complete rock formation.
In the long run, it took me six vertical photographs in whole to gather data from your entire scene.
I used to be capturing handheld, attempting to be as nonetheless as attainable throughout the capturing to reduce the digital camera motion. On the identical time, even when I had a tripod with me, I might not be capable to use it due to tight area.
Earlier than taking the collection of photographs, I made positive to lock publicity (AE-L) and autofocus (AF-L).
Modifying & Processing
It was a multi shot panorama processing workflow.
I began processing by deciding on your entire sequence of 6 photographs and sending them to the Photograph Merge module of Lightroom, selecting the Panorama possibility.
Beneath is the screenshot of the Lightroom Panorama Merge settings:
Lightroom (80%)
Subsequent, I exploit the Crop Overlay device to adapt the picture to the 16×9 facet ration.
To finish the Lightroom modifying, I
The Lightroom Preset Modifying System: Napa (2, 9, 13, 20, 32)
Photoshop (20%)
In Photoshop, I used the Spot Elimination device to scrub up the picture.
And eventually, I used the Topz DeNoise plugin to cut back digital noise. That was the primary time I used the newest model of DeNoise AI after upgrading from DeNoise 6. The most recent model works in another way in comparison with the outdated model. It doesn’t solely scale back the noise however sharpens the picture as nicely.
After I’m snug with the brand new model, I’ll replace my evaluation of Topaz plugins.
