Glen Helen Gorge Panorama

[alexch (Alex)]

Hi All,

I could not resist making a spherical panorama at the Glen Helen Gorge in West MacDonnells (NT) and it turned out rather nice with the camera just above the water edge.

Two rows of six 30-sec images with Sony NEX5N and Samyang 8mm f/2.8 fisheye, ISO 3200. Stitched in PTGUI Pro and processed in Photoshop CS6.

Thanks for looking,
Alex

[gregbradley]

Gorgeous.

I have that same lens. How do you prevent the heavy curvature? Its my understanding that when the lens is tilted above level you will get heavy curvature. I think if the object is centred that is minimised. Do you use a fisheye correction software?

Greg.

[alexch (Alex)]

Thanks Greg, I shoot a spherical pano - covering full 360 degrees in two rows: 6 images at 0-degree tilt and 6 images at 45-degree tilt.

PTGui will then make a 360 spherical panorama which can be saved in various projections and cropped. For this image I thought Mercator projection worked the best.

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

Really nicely done Alex.

Josh

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Superb, Alex!

[iceman (Mike)]

Nicely done! The foreground is much darker in this one - had the moon set?

[alexch (Alex)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Nicely done! The foreground is much darker in this one - had the moon set?

Thanks.
The Moon has set about 30-45 minutes before the images were taken.

[gregbradley]

Thanks for the info Alex. I have a Nex 6 I originally got to modify. Now that I settled on my Fuji XE1 for terrestial imaging its free to go the mod.

Wish me luck!!

Greg.

[Craige]

Beautiful Alex!

Craige

[geoffsims (Geoff)]

Superb!

[h0ughy (David)]

lovely image - kudos to your skills

[Forgey (Paula)]

Lovely image Alex, nicely done.

[Paul Haese]

Yeah I like this better. Some noise in the foreground but the main image really works.

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Alex.

I love the symmetry and colours.

Ross.

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Great photo Alex well done!