Assignment Pano - Salton Sea

[Kerry Perkins]

This is the Salton Sea from the eastern shore on a very dark afternoon. A few notes about this image:

The color variations were actually there. The changes in color you see can actually be seen in individual images.
This is composed of eight horizontals.
The vertical banding you see is not caused by the stitching - it is reflections of the clouds and light in the water.
Photoshop was not able to pull this off, I had to use PTGui. Photoshop left "cracks" in the image.
The seams are not where you think they are! ;-) The full-size version of this is amazing at 5123x780.

450D, EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28mm
f/5.6@1/125 Aperture priority, evaluative metering
ISO 400 EC 0
Shot in RAW, converted in DPP, then color matched in CS3 for stitching in PTGui

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Kerry,
Nicely done...I like the tranquil mood displayed...:cool:

[denise ippolito]

Kerry, Really beautiful! Colors look great -is the horizon even?Not sure.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Kerry

This needs to be seen in large form to appreciate !!!! Excellent work.

btw haven't done tons of these but PS has come through every time. What went wrong?

[Kerry Perkins]

Alfred, not sure why CS3 had an issue with this, but it cogitated for several minutes and left gaps between the originals. PTGui did it in under a minute and it came out perfect. I'll have to go back and try it again. Perhaps I had some setting wrong?

[Lance Peters]

Hi kERRY - very nice - would love to see it huge!

PTGUI is the best thing since sliced bread for Pano's - IMHO it does a much better job than CS3/CS4 with the blending and the stitching.

:)

[Nonda Surratt]

First thought..Wow Kerry this is neat! Fav part the sky!

[Katie Rupp]

Spectacular! The guys fishing on the right are a great touch, adding visual interest, bringing my eye to them and back to the horizon and that sky.