The sunset was just okay this Sunday evening, but the sunrise Monday morning was beautiful! Tired after getting only about 2 hours of sleep and spending the early morning shooting the Milky Way, I was treated to this scene below as a grand finale for my Lake Tahoe photo adventure. These incredible moments make me happy.
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This is a stitched panoramic photo, meaning I shot 24 vertical images and then stitched them together using Photoshop's photomerge feature. Sometimes the photomerge doesn't work lining things up and I use PTGui to stitch the images, where you have more control of how the photos line up. Fortunately, I did a decent job shooting the photos and the horizon lined up nicely in Photoshop, which is a quicker way of proccesing these type of pano images. Explaining the whole editing process via text would be confusing and long. Maybe one day I'll record myself editing one of these and post it here, but it would be a looong video, these take a while to perfect.
Each of the 24 images were shot on the Canon 5Dsr with a 24-105mm lens set at 45mm. The ISO was 125, the aperture was f14, and each shot was 1.6 seconds long. A tripod and shutter release cable were used in order to keep the camera from shaking during the exposure. Two filters were used on the front of the lens - a polarizer in order to cut through the glare on the lake and bring out more of the aqua colors along the shoreline, and a graduated neutral density filter in order to darken the sky a bit and balance the foreground exposure with the sky's exposure.
The final pixel dimensions for this image are 19,083 x 6,848 - equivalent to about a 131 megapixel image. This one can be printed huge! (Hey, by the way, my prints can be ordered and shipped now in exchange for STEEM...)
The photo adventure where I shot this image can be seen in the @dtube video below. I briefly talk about this sunrise scene at the 15:40 mark.
Lake Tahoe Overnight Photo Adventure - Video
If you have any questions about this shot, please feel free to ask me in the comments below or you can ask in the @dynamicsteemians Discord where they have set up a little channel for me to answer photography questions: https://discord.gg/wXch4tp
Thank you for looking, reading, and watching!
Scott Thompson
Scott Shots Photography
I love how you spent like 3 minutes talking about your veggie pasta. What else does Mary Jane's Farm put in their pasta, btw? ;)
Hahaha! Yeah, maybe I should do more backpacking food reviews... What else do they need? They have lovage in it!
I think the way you do your videos is pretty great. It's a fun mix of useful info and randomness. It would be pretty hilarious if you just spent like 90% of your videos talking about food and/or hiking gear, but of course that would probably defeat the purpose of your videos. You seem to have things at a good balance right now. :)
A sincere thank you @brandt! That would be funny though.... Hey, proper nutrition, hydration, and gear is indeed part of the balance to getting good photos. Cheers to the weekend!
Oh. My. Goshhhhhh. This is pure heaven Scott!!!
I would totally volunteer to follow you around with a video camera explaining how you somehow do magic tricks with a camera!
Thank you @bunnymoney! Haha! Yeah, I could use a volunteer. I don't record video at the most colorful moments because I'm too busy shooting stills. The overnight part was cold and uncomfortable though... Cheers!
Awesome panorama!
Thank you @vtravels! Those are always fun to create.
Awesome!
Thank you @waihekefpv! Glad you like it.