Aloha from Hawaii: Panorama taken just after sunset on top of Haleakala

Posted on June 14, 2009 by joe

Panorama taken just after sunset on top of Haleakala — by Joe Reifer

10 horizontal images taken hand-held were stitched together for this panorama using Photomerge in Photoshop CS3. All exposures were 1/125 at f/8, ISO 400. The final image resolution is 11 x 62 inches at 300 dpi. Click on the image above to see a larger version.

4 thoughts on “Aloha from Hawaii: Panorama taken just after sunset on top of Haleakala”

David Dasinger on June 17, 2009 at 3:29 pm said:

Sweet – did you print this?
joe on June 17, 2009 at 4:22 pm said:

Planning to make a print — still working on dialing in the shadow detail for the high-res file.
Steve W on June 17, 2009 at 10:08 pm said:

How you’d get the clouds to line up between exposures? Fast work?
joe on June 17, 2009 at 10:39 pm said:

I put the camera on Live View with gridlines, and shot with 1/3 overlap. Total elapsed time between shot #1 and shot #10 was just over 1 minute. Photomerge in CS3 (and CS4) is hugely improved over CS2 — as long as there aren’t power lines or subjects quite near to the camera, everything lines up really well without any extra tweaking at all.