Grand Canyon Panoramas

[gregbradley]

I took these amongst other images in March this year.

I only found out about a decent Panorama software (Panorama Factory) recently.

Here are 2 panoramas of the Grand Canyon. Cameras Canon 20D and Canon 40D.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/105350101/large

http://jjd.pbase.com/image/105331323

You can go right into them by clicking on original at the bottom of the image. They are approx 50 and 35 megapixel images.

Greg.

[AlexN]

Thats an incredible view isn't it!
Nice shot! Greg.

The rock wall on the very left hand side of the image looks a little over saturated.. It may just be me, but it looks a little.. odd. somehow..

[gregbradley]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the tip.

I'll tone it down. The panorama software seemed to pump that one up a bit plus it was darker than the rest in the first place for some reason. Perhaps the angle of the sun.

Cheers,

Greg.

[Wavytone]

Nice pics. In addition I suggest they have been JPG compressed far too hard - the colours in the reflections off the stream in "Stream near Lake Tahoe IR Colour Composite.jpg" for example are quite corrupted. There are a lot of other JPG compression artefacts in these images too

If you still have the original shots I'd suggest a better compromise would be to cut the number of pixels by 70% in each dimension and set the JPEG quality to HIGH or 100%.

(oops just realised these are IR, not normal light).

[h0ughy (David)]

wow certaqinly puts some perspective on things - wonderful image greg - can you fix up the rocks on the left?

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Wavytone

Nice pics. In addition I suggest they have been JPG compressed far too hard - the colours in the reflections off the stream in "Stream near Lake Tahoe IR Colour Composite.jpg" for example are quite corrupted. There are a lot of other JPG compression artefacts in these images too

If you still have the original shots I'd suggest a better compromise would be to cut the number of pixels by 70% in each dimension and set the JPEG quality to HIGH or 100%.

(oops just realised these are IR, not normal light).

Yes they are actually infrared/colour composites and it does produce some unusual effects. Somewhat controllable though. A bit like astrophotography narrowband imaging.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

wow certaqinly puts some perspective on things - wonderful image greg - can you fix up the rocks on the left?

I see, - the first image; yes that panel was a bit darker and I see it has been pushed a bit hard with shadows/highlights in Photoshop.

I'll work that one over - cheers.

Panoramas aren't as easy as it would seem.

Greg.

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful images, Greg. I'd love to go there one day. I must do it.