I took the featured photograph throughout my hike alongside the Panorama Path in Kodachrome State Park in Utah. I featured the placement in my earlier submit just a few weeks in the past: Secret Passage in Kodachrome
It was my very first exploration of the Kodachrome space and Panorama Path particularly. I didn’t know what to anticipate, however I knew it was a protracted (10miles/16km) extensive open path in 30C (90F) diploma climate at an elevation of 2000m (6500feet) above sea degree.
I made a decision to hike as mild as potential. I took with me Fujifilm XT2 digicam and just one lens Fujinon 18-135mm. And I even left my tripod at a campsite as a result of I used to be not planning to hike till sundown.
The hike was exhausting due to the warmth, however I had a good time, managing to seize some attention-grabbing photographs.
However once I reached the Secret Passage space of the hike, I noticed that I had a difficulty to unravel.
The Secret Passage is a tiny space surrounded by tall rock formations, and I wanted an extremely extensive angle lens to seize something significant.
The answer was to seize a number of pictures and merge them into extensive angle panorama in Lightroom or Photoshop throughout post-processing.
That was exactly what I did, and it labored flawlessly.
Capturing
The rock formation I wished to seize had minimal house in entrance of it. Once I was leaning in opposition to the other wall, the shot’s topic was so shut I nearly might attain it with my hand.
My authentic plan was to take 3, a most of 4 pictures, to create a large angle panorama. After just a few makes an attempt, I noticed that I want extra pictures to cowl a whole rock formation.
In the long run, it took me six vertical pictures in complete to gather data from your entire scene.
I used to be taking pictures handheld, attempting to be as nonetheless as potential throughout the taking pictures to reduce the digicam motion. On the identical time, even when I had a tripod with me, I’d not have the ability to use it due to tight house.
Earlier than taking the collection of pictures, I made positive to lock publicity (AE-L) and autofocus (AF-L).
Modifying & Processing
It was a multi shot panorama processing workflow.
I began processing by choosing your entire sequence of 6 pictures and sending them to the Photograph Merge module of Lightroom, selecting the Panorama choice.
Under is the screenshot of the Lightroom Panorama Merge settings:
Lightroom (80%)
Subsequent, I take advantage of the Crop Overlay device to evolve the picture to the 16×9 facet ration.
To finish the Lightroom modifying, I
The Lightroom Preset Modifying Formulation: Napa (2, 9, 13, 20, 32)
Photoshop (20%)
In Photoshop, I used the Spot Elimination device to scrub up the picture.
And at last, I used the Topz DeNoise plugin to scale back digital noise. That was the primary time I used the most recent model of DeNoise AI after upgrading from DeNoise 6. The latest model works in another way in comparison with the previous model. It doesn’t solely scale back the noise however sharpens the picture as effectively.
After I’m snug with the brand new model, I’ll replace my assessment of Topaz plugins.
Earlier than & After Transformation
