Badlands of Anza-Borrego desert, eastern San Diego County, CA - taken back in January. This is my first attempt to stitch a pano together. Used 8 images in CS5, auto-align and auto-blend, S&H, levels, saturation, color balance, Topaz Details & smart sharpen. That's a dry river bed snaking through the canyons down below. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest state park in California.
7D, EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, tripod
1/80
22.0
ISO 400
Hey Brendan,
Looks like a tough place to shoot! Nice job with the stitch and you chose wisely minimizing the sky. I t looks like you had low light....which is good, but it also cast some big shadows and while I don't mind the ones on the right....the left one seems to dominate. I looked at this with it cropped just to the left of the dry riverbed......and it works better for me. Perhaps a different time of year will give you a better angle? Not having been there....not sure it is possible. A good job overall though and looks like a cool place to revisit.
Thanks for comments & suggestions, Roman. I see what you mean about the crop, and definitely have to check out the best time of year / time of day to shoot this, as shadows were a problem. I also tried a B&W conversion, but did not look that great, but might look great with different light.
Surreal landscape, I would like to see a dawn or sunset photo.
I like the sky and the scene in the far distance on the right side.
It seems you didn't need to use iso 400 unless it was really bright?
A slower shutter speed with a lower iso might give a bit more richness to the scene.
Borrego Badlands
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