So I went to the Ozarks for a week…

[chupathingie]

…and all I shot was one steenkin’ panorama.

(larger here, at 1/4 size…full rez is about 16000×3500)

[linguine]

very nice pano

[CauseISaidSo]

Where is that, chup? Agree with ‘guine, that’s a nice one, on par with your usual high pano standards. Is there some light tone mapping in there as well?

[chupathingie]

Thanks, folks 🙂 Yeah, there is some tonemapping going on… I’ve not settled on how I really want to treat the final for print yet. This image is a blend of the original photo and a tonemapped version. If I can stretch out details in the fog without tonemapping, I’ll go that route… but the fog was the focus, so whatever it takes to bring out the wispies.

I took the series the day I left my folks’ house last saturday, just across the river from Cotter, Arkansas (north central part of the state) maybe an hour after dawn. I’ve always wanted a shot of that stretch of river, and was very surprised to find a break in the fog between the bridges when I drove by… and man, did I botch that shoot! 😆 Got in a rush and shot in AV instead of manual. There’s a massive gradient across all the subs. Still, tho, there may be some contest material in there… the singles look pretty decent, especially the sun streaking through the fog behind the RR trestle.

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