Posts Tagged panoramic

I love Nova Scotia so much. My upcoming trip in July will be my fourth trip in three years. Besides the beautiful Maritime models, I’m going to be focused on taking two specific types of images during my visit: HDR and Panoramic. I’ve put together some quick and dirty examples from my previous trips to show you what I mean. The JPEGs are fairly large so you can examine the detail in them!

First up, HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging, which usually involves mashing together half a dozen photos all shot at different exposures, and then tonemapping them to extract the most detail. There are tons of tutorials on these methods that you can find via Google, so I’ll spare you the details. This image was made from eight raw files and tonemapped in Photomatix Pro.

Peggy's Cove, one of the most photographed places on Earth

Next up, two examples of panoramic photos, which are long photos stitched together from a bunch of smaller ones. I used Photoshop CS3′s Merge feature to stitch the photos together.

Pictou, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Like I said above, these are just really quick and simple examples. The panoramic shots were done without the benefit of a tripod, so I’m going to redo them properly when I go back this year. Fingers crossed for good weather!