May 15, 2008, 10:15
Well, boys and girls.
This was a 40-exposure epic, taking about an hour for just the stitching.
I set the exposure for the well-lit grass, which gives "18% grey" in metering terms: this worked out at 1/125sec at f.9
Again, I could go handheld, even though it was windy up at the top of the hill; the I.S. on the 70-200 steadied the hand.
I used the 70mm end: I could have saved mysefl some bother by switching to the 50mm here, as quality would be arguably similar for most output purposes...but I just wanted to say that I'd done it really.
In resolution terms, this baby, at 300ppi, would allow one to have an image 50 inches wide.
Its dimensions in the original are 14, 791 x 5379 pixels: dodging/burning brushes were about 1500 pixels wide: gulp!
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This was a 40-exposure epic, taking about an hour for just the stitching.
I set the exposure for the well-lit grass, which gives "18% grey" in metering terms: this worked out at 1/125sec at f.9
Again, I could go handheld, even though it was windy up at the top of the hill; the I.S. on the 70-200 steadied the hand.
I used the 70mm end: I could have saved mysefl some bother by switching to the 50mm here, as quality would be arguably similar for most output purposes...but I just wanted to say that I'd done it really.
In resolution terms, this baby, at 300ppi, would allow one to have an image 50 inches wide.
Its dimensions in the original are 14, 791 x 5379 pixels: dodging/burning brushes were about 1500 pixels wide: gulp!
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