Wow! with a monopod?????

Which mountain range is this in?

Lovely landscape! I like it very much this collage of several pictures. It reminds me a lot to ZERMATT. Could you share more info about tripod and how did you manage to keep the same exposure in all of them. I´ve never tried this but I think I´ll use AEL. Well done

Thanks for your comments and encouragement!

Carles, yes with a monopod. I like to use a monopod when I hike because 1) it doubles as a walking stick, and 2) it's light. I find that unless I want to do long exposures (water movement, night shots) the monopod is steady enough.

Danny, these mountains are just the hills. There is no real name for this mountain range. There are so many mountains around here, it would be impossible to name them all. Where I'm standing to take this photo is about 6 or 7 miles from my home in Juuneau, Alaska.

David, as I mentioned to Carles, I used a monopod. When I shoot, I almost always have the E-1 in bracket mode to insure I get an exposure I like. This is especially important when shooting for panos. You just mix and match the different exposures that are the closest as you go from frame to frame.

The one thing you want to avoid when doing panos is having the white balance on automatic. I usually find that setting the white balance to 5500 for outdoors is good.

Davi, I don't have any experience at all shooting panoramas but with a 14mm focal lenght wouldn't you have problems to stitch de frames due to wide angle distorsion? You obviously managed to do it in a very succesful way. Just curiosity.

David, sorry for your misspelled name. The little window where you have to write the comments is an added challenge to my poor writing skills.

Carles, I leave all those distortion problems to the stitching software. Somehow it knows what to do with it. Spooky:•)

no words, just wow! Congrats!

Breathtakingly beautiful.

beatiful panorama !

Wow!!! A great landscape!

I hate to break the thread of 10s but I feel that the highlights on the lefthand hills are blownout, especially on the topmpst part, that I can hardly identify the separation of the snowcaps and the clouds. I just don't know if it's because of the image size on display. Then again, still, this is a WOW photo! Congratulations! :-)

Chris, I hope I don't seem to eager to hold on to my perfect score, but I have to disagree about the hills on the left being blown out. If you check the levels you'll see they're well below that point. The problem I think you're having is lack of detail due to the 1200 pixel wide limit. If I could post this at full size you'd see the detail that is there. You would easily distinguish between hills and clouds.

Another way to look at it is: what could I do besides enlarging this to fix the problem? Nothing.

Chris, I hope I don't seem to eager to hold on to my perfect score, but I have to disagree about the hills on the left being blown out. If you check the levels you'll see they're well below that point. The problem I think you're having is lack of detail due to the 1200 pixel wide limit. If I could post this at full size you'd see the detail that is there. You would easily distinguish between hills and clouds.

Another way to look at it is: what could I do besides enlarging this to fix the problem? Nothing.

Regards, David

Oops. How'd that happen?

I simply think it's brilliant, you were there at the right spot at the right time. Lighting is perfect, ditto as to composition, great!

David, I just have to chime in with everyone here. Great panorama and perfect exposure!

I love panos (have said it here many times *smile*), and love mountains, so what could be more beautiful than a pano of mountains! That is one impressive glacier you have here - ours seem to melt and diminish really quickly :-(.

Yvonne

great panorama. would like to see more of the glacier in the foreground. if you take panos in portrait orientation u get more vertically space. wide will go it automatically ;)

wondering about the good stitching in consideration of the different used apertures and shutter speeds. panorama factory did a good job. you two, of course.

I have been looking at this image now for a while and found it hard to clarify my thoughts about it. It is excellently stitched together from 7 frames, and that you got it from a monopod is an achievement in itself. I try to use the site guidelines when rating images and have done so here. Despite the impeccable job of the stitching i am relating to the image itself and after much soul searching and in the spirit of a dead honest critique I can only go as far as 8 which I know sets me out on a limb but I am happy to explain myself

I usually go 3, 3, 4, for Technical quality, Composition and Emotional Appeal respectively.

On tecnical quality I've got to give 3 out of 3. Its very good. The stitching is great. Seems like there's a slight blown out area on the left as Chris has said and in the clouds on the right, but I give the benefit of the doubt. On composition I give 3 out of 3. Its probably about as good as it can be, although I would have removed or not included what appears to be branches sticking up into the right side of the frame at bottom.

Its in the area of emotional appeal that I run into difficulty. Notwithstanding the technical good work of the stitching, the image doesn't really excite me beyond the fact that its a 220 pano well taken, but that a software program and yoursel put together. What lets it down imho for me is the light. Looking at the image I feel that the light is mostly dull across the image. There isn't really anything in the image in the foreground or the background that really grabs my attention and holds it. So in the area of Emotional appeal I can only go 2 out of 4. Sorry. I hope offence is not taken but this is how I respond to the image and I know I'm a lone voice here but I want to be respectfully honest in the spirit of a dead honest critique.

Although the sense of being there is good I wonder if the angle is too great and the height too small for that real wow factor that a panorama can give.

The bit of the image that compositionally I find most attractive is the left three quarters.

I cannot see the blown out highlights mention and agree with your reply. (I have now calibrated my work monitor!).

I use PF and I have only defeated its software a couple of times by being a bit silly. It seems to cope with the most extraordinary challenges. I shoot in RAW and set the WB at the point of conversion so the panorama can be shot quite quickly without needing camera adjustments.