Monday, November 9, 2009

Wailua River Hawaii - Panorama

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Now that winter is approaching I have more time to process through photos from our vacation to Kauai Hawaii that my family took this year.  I've got multiple gigs of photos to process still.  I thought I would share this panoramic view of the Wailua River valley taken on the island of Kauai (my favorite).

For today's image, I captured three RAW files of the valley on my Canon 40D set to manual mode, the manual setting allowed me to get a consistent exposure across all three photos.  After processing them in Adobe Lightroom using Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) I selected all three images in Lightroom and selected  "Merge to Panorama in Photoshop CS3".  I then cropped the final photo and saved it as a jpeg file.  CS3 did a great job stitching the photos together.

To view the full-resolution version of the image, click here.  (warning the original is very large but worth it)

1 comment:

Jeremy Hall said...

Beautiful panorama Scott! Love the detail you were able to capture even with the tonal range across this entire image. Very well done!