a couple of cloud panos

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Shot these Monday on my way to a class at work. Handheld & in landscape mode because I was running late and shouldn't have stopped at all... :)

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Very nice,

I like the streak of light in the 2nd one.
 
Thanks guys. :)

But honestly, it's pretty tough to muck up a sky shot around here. Five minutes later you get something totally different to shoot, so lost shots don't sting very long. ;)
 
I like both of them, but the second one attracted my attention with its colors... great. :)
 
Well done, the cloud in #2 pulls you right into the picture, I also like how the mountain is high lighted by the sunshine. Good one.
 
Nice work Jim!!! Always a pleasure to view yer shots. The yellow on the horizon in the second makes it for me too.
 
Super shots.

I love sky shots ..... its such a big canvas, as it were, to frame great shots with.

Looks like you have some really big canvas to work with.

-mike
 
Was it film or digital?

How did you manage to expose the sky AND the ground properly? Curves?
 
Thanks mike. :)

Doc- it's digital. How? I used the Dr. Brown script to batch process the RAW files. This allows you to open the first file in a pano and apply identical post-processing to all the files in a pano shot.

Then once it's lined up and minor tweaks made to match the individual shots to each other the layers are flattened and curves/saturation etc. applied.

In these two shots I lucked out and all the frames were actually pretty close to start with, so they matched up well. The exposure frame-to-frame and within the frames are fairly close.

It was in the post-processing of the flattened shot that the contrast is boosted to give the expanded dynamic range.
 

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