First HDR Panorama -- Israeli Desert

This is my first try at an HDR Panoramic image. I created it with some help and tips from a thread I made earlier here. I try not to make my HDR's too fake looking. Let me know how I did.

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I really like that.

Very nice one for a 1st try. It looks natural to me. Cheers

Nice work. Not overprocessed for sure

...might make a good background.

Way to go!

Is the change in color and saturation in the rock features from left to right for real or an artifact of processing?

What approach did you decide to take?

Kirk

kirkt wrote in post #13824227
Way to go!

Is the change in color and saturation in the rock features from left to right for real or an artifact of processing?

What approach did you decide to take?

Kirk

It is real -- different types of cliffs, and the ones on the right were further away and in different light. I made 3 HDR images (batch preprocessed the same way in photomatix), then stitched them together using Microsoft ICE.

looks good

the original says it's locked, can't see it

Nice! I like the very natural look.

Similar question to Kirk. The sky and rocks appear to be tinted differently on the left vs the middle and right sections of the panorama....did you lock down the in-camera exposure parameters between the sections of the panorama (Manual Mode, same f/stop, ISO, brackets of shutter speeds, picture styles, switched in-camera processing options off, etc) and then use the same PP adjustments before the final panorama merge?

Would like to understand your workflow on this series, if you care to share!

Old Baldy wrote in post #13828688
Nice! I like the very natural look.

Similar question to Kirk. The sky and rocks appear to be tinted differently on the left vs the middle and right sections of the panorama....did you lock down the in-camera exposure parameters between the sections of the panorama (Manual Mode, same f/stop, ISO, brackets of shutter speeds, picture styles, switched in-camera processing options off, etc) and then use the same PP adjustments before the final panorama merge?

Would like to understand your workflow on this series, if you care to share!

I shot this with a CPL filter, which may have accounted for the differences in the color of the sky (I think I may have rotated it by accident when changing views). The rocks were actually different colors (on the left is more sandy/limestone and the cliffs in the back are more dense and a different type of rock), and under different light.