Perception of Depth: San Francisco CityscapeI always imagined if I had a real large format camera and I could capture the complete details of this beautiful city of San Francisco. Well to get this idea a reality in digital world, where large electronic sensors of Cameras are cost prohibitive, I decided to create a 200+ Megapixels of panorama by combining several smaller pictures where a panoramic picture has enough details for printing up to 4 ft by 14 ft without losing any details. Technical: In order to get this vision to reality, I took about 40 individual shots using a telescopic lens (Canon EF 100-400 mark II) on Canon 5D mark III camera capturing every details of the scene. I had to use Apple Macbook PRO (with 16 GB RAM) to get every details combined from those 40 shots and make one panorama. I used Capture One 8 to process each individual image and I later combined using Photoshop CS6. Location of this picture is Forest Road in Treasure Island in San Francisco City.
Sunrise at Bryce CanyonBryce canyon was our second stop in a week long trip to National parks in the area. I woke up before dawn to go to Navajo loop trail to reach to this point.
Tech : Nikon D800E, Nikon 14-24, @f20, several bracketed shots in raw format, initial processing in Capture One, tiff files exported in Photoshop CS6, digital blending in CS6, final touchup in NIK software.
Zion national Park: River walkRiver walk at Virgin River: This was our first stop in a week long trip to National parks in the area. Me, my wife and liitle ones took this smooth river walk in the late morning. Had plan to go all the way to Narrows but my son being seemed to liitle to handle that... Technical: Nikon D800E, Nikkor 14-24, @f11, @22mm, 5 bracketed shots taken as raw, imported in capture one, initial touch up, exported to photoshop CS6, digital blending for high dynamic range, other adjustment in NIK software. Towers in Fog: Golden gate Bridge, San Francisco, CaliforniaI was lucky to capture a rare low fog event at near golden gate bridge (from Hawk hill). Took 2 shots with different exposures to cover complete dynamic range Tech: Canon 5D mark III, EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6l is ii, 227mm, @f5, imported in capture one, digital blending in photoshop CS6 and final touches in NIK software.
Calla Lilies of Doud Creek, Garrapata SP, California
I took my family for a quick outing to Carmel, California around 17 mile drive. We were done well before evening and decide to head south. I stopped by at Doud creek for a quick trip to beach.
To my surprise, I discovered 400-500 people on little creek area, atleast 100 of them must be photographers. Later I found out it was famous bloom of Call Lillies during March-April Season. I had to capture this beauty. So I setup my camera and clicked few snaps just to make sure I have few shots without people. Heavy fog moved in before towards evening so my hopes of capturing the sunset colors were dashed so I moved on towards BIXBY Bridge..
Tech: Nikon D800E, Nikkor 14-24, few raw shots in Raw, imported in Capture One, digital blending for focus tacking and dynamic range done in Photoshop CS6 and final touches in NIK software.
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