Hoover Dam Panorama

travelerb · Sep 30, 2008

Got back from my quick trip to Arizona, and with a new lens rental thanks to everyone's suggestions a few weeks back. I'm working on getting some of the better photos up, but for now here's a nice little panoramic of the Hoover Dam I stitched together. Full size is 7000x3300. C&C is appreciated, though I think it needs to be brighter all around (the shadow is a little tough to fix). Getting all my monitors calibrated would help too...

Lots from the Grand Canyon soon I hope. I have several panoramas from there I need to finish up, but unfortunately the biggest one is pretty significantly underexposed except along the horizon (it was at sunset), so I'm having a rough time with PP to get it to look right).

abraxas · Sep 30, 2008

Great concept! Very different and excellent work.

I've shot the place many times, top, bottom and inside and never even thought of trying something like that.

travelerb · Sep 30, 2008

Thanks abraxas!

I did my best to fix the darkening problems and lightened up the shadows a bit and replaced the photo in the original post above, so everyone feel free to rip it apart

LoganJ · Sep 30, 2008

This is an excellent shot!

nynfortoo · Sep 30, 2008

Great shot.

I love how the curve of the dam tricks the eye into thinking it's a single fisheye shot, but there's no other distortion.

I'd love to see that for myself!

dklod · Sep 30, 2008

The Hoover dam is probably one of the best attractions I have ever been to. The colors, textures, and scale is fantastic. I like this shot though the shadow cast across the canyon is probably the only negative I have but you have not lost any detail in the darker areas, so good job. Im hoping to visit it again in January.