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#1 2012-03-22 01:46:10

BrandonRiza
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Lots of panos from Denali, Alaska...

...shot in difficult conditions and compiled using a very forgiving APG.

http://www.brandonriza.com/Photography/HTML/Denali.htm


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#2 2012-03-24 20:12:41

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Re: Lots of panos from Denali, Alaska...

beautiful set, great expedition ^^


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#3 2012-04-02 23:05:03

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Re: Lots of panos from Denali, Alaska...

Wonderful set of panoramic photos...
Thanks for sharing !


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#4 2012-04-15 10:23:29

tomask
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Re: Lots of panos from Denali, Alaska...

Would you be so kind ans share how you achieved such vibrant clarity and colors?

Is it just how it comes from 5DMkII? Did you use any filters? What lenses? No haze?

My apology for so many questions, I find your picture quality remarcable considering the environmental conditions.

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#5 2012-04-24 11:35:01

DrSlony
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Re: Lots of panos from Denali, Alaska...

Remarkable! Thanks for posting!

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#6 2012-04-27 15:45:27

Tom D
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Re: Lots of panos from Denali, Alaska...

C'est magnifique. Bravo!

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#7 2012-05-12 03:53:26

BrandonRiza
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Re: Lots of panos from Denali, Alaska...

Sorry. Forgot I posted this and just now came back to check.
(Altitude-related self-induced retardation...)

First and foremost, yes...no haze.
The kind of lack of haze one only sees (doesn't see?...) in big range mountains at high altitude with difficult accessibility.
The Otter flight in was 40 minutes...
So that's a huge part of it.
I also shoot typically 1 and 2/3 stops underexposed. Sometimes 2 full stops.
This allows me to pull out true sky values instead of blowing out the clouds to achieve a properly-metered terrain.
Usually when you do that, you need to pull up dark values in the RAW in the terrain areas of you photo.
In this case, since everything was so white, pulling up the dark areas was much easier (not as much pushing needed to be done...thus less noise.)
and I was able to maintain details in the snow features.
Of course, you could do that with multiple exposures, but none of these are HDRi.
Speaking of noise, I shot it all at 50ISO, and all handheld.
I never use filters.
Most of these panos were shot with an EF 70-200 f/4L IS.
Great lens.
Buried it under 7 feet of snow and ice in a cache hole at 14k feet when we climbed to the upper mountain because I didn't want to lug the additional 770g.  Came back 5 days later and dug it up...worked perfectly.

Tip of the balaclava to the Kolor team though...one thing I DIDN'T have to worry about up there was whether or not my images would stitch well...


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