So I thought I'd attempt this posting thing. Panoramic Wake-up

[TimothyGriesel]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grieselt/9427228101/" title="Hippo Bay Pano Take 2 by tim_griesel, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7291/9427228101_ae29395010_b.jpg" width="1024" height="265" alt="Hippo Bay Pano Take 2"></a>

I created this image from 6 images taken just before sunrise in Kafue National Park to and stitched them together in the hopes of showing the beauty of the landscape that was laid out in from of me.

I had to take the images hand held and stitched them together using Photoshop

Taken using a Canon 550D, Canon 18-55mm Kit Lens
Focal Length is 18mm
ISO 400, f/3.5 at 1/100 sec

Autofocus then manual focus to keep the same focus area

Partial Metering

Crop and striaghtened, noise reduction, minor highlights and shadows increase, levels, curves, as well as contrast adjustments

Let me know what you think and what I should have done differently

[jack williamson]

The colors are beautiful, I am not sure about the width ( maybe too wide), I see banding in the lit sky.

Jack

[John Chardine]

Hi Timothy- I like the idea here of a high-contrast image where the BG tones really emphasise and frame the subjects nicely. Well done on the stitch. I am OK with the blocked shadows if that is what you intended but the result is that on the lefthand side there is really no detail to see because it is so dark. I would crop the left side to a little left of the lefthand (visible) bush. This would bring the main subject off-centre as well. To maintain the pano feel you could shave off some from the top when you do this.