DSLRUsers.com

Yet Another SunSet.

This was taken a few months ago, standing on my half built patio.
Three images stitched together. No colour correction and no sharpening, i used manual speed and aperture till i could keep blown out highlights to a minimum, basically the street lights.
exposure was 1/80 f/4.5

I just wonder how people feel given i spent about 3 hours removing 3 power lines, running right through the centre, and a rather large power pole to the left of the photo.
I could have cropped the power pole out, but i wanted to keep the sun central. If i had my used my film camera i would probably have not wasted the film, but i knew i could edit the image on the digital.

The horizon is probly just a tiny bit crooked.

thats the only grip I have and its pretty pedantic as it is.

At this size, if you hadn't mentioned the cloning out of power lines and poles I would never have known... Even now I can't see it...

Stitching seems well done, again at this size it's difficult to be picky, but looks good to me...

Reckon manual exposure's the only way to go for pano's otherwise it can become more difficult to match the images up later if exposure (or aperture) changes between images... I tend to sweep across the scene and find the brightest part and meter for that, then take the lot in one sweep...

Ain't digital wonderful? You can take a series of images and then decide whether they're worth keeping or not later, imagine all the iffy shots that have turned out OK with some PP that you may never have taken if you were using film...