My most technically complicated photo :) [landscape]

72 pictures taken by 17 TS-E and 6D (camera in vertical orientation).
8 columns are stitched together into a rotary panorama, more than 180 deg.
Each column is stitched of 3 pictures (shift panorama).
Each picture in each column is HDR made of 3 raw-to-tiff pictures.
Final picture has 11,000 x 8,835 pix.

I'm wondering, is it worth all that effort?
Perspectiv is very unusuall. Lens' axis was positioned horizontally, but I almost saw my tripod's legs
The path and the stream are almost straight in this place; hour before the sunset, but the valley was all in the shadow, no clouds.
Doing HDR I've been thinking about natural looking, not "hdr-like".

What do You think? Colors, crop, etc?

Impressive effort. It's appealing. However, on a two dimensional screen it makes me dizzy. I'll bet it would be great on a 360 surround display.

I don't think it was worth the time and effort. The scene is rather bland and uninteresting for the most part. It's an interesting concept - if you do this with a more interesting subject and some better light so you get some color in the sky, then perhaps it might be worth it.

Personally, it looks like it should be wider, the image seems skewed to me. It may not be, but just looks like everything is compressed.

joedlh wrote in post #17188399
Impressive effort. It's appealing. However, on a two dimensional screen it makes me dizzy.

Thanks
"Dizziness" becames from "an ultra-wide lens as a basic" - 17TSE long-axis pano image is ~12mm lens-like.

Numenorean wrote in post #17188424
I don't think it was worth the time and effort. The scene is rather bland and uninteresting for the most part. It's an interesting concept - if you do this with a more interesting subject and some better light so you get some color in the sky, then perhaps it might be worth it.

Yes, I know the scene is not a mindblower this was a first try.

Ephur wrote in post #17188584
Personally, it looks like it should be wider, the image seems skewed to me. It may not be, but just looks like everything is compressed.

I think You have a right! It's geometrically corect but not intuition-correct Now i can see it.

I made two changes:
1. Cylindrical distortion (vertcally) - 20%
2. Aspect ratio (resampling, -20% of height)
It looks better as a picture but horizontal-center part is little bit "to low"now. Not very important in landscape photo and, probably, not very noticeable. I should find the best parameters for those two changes in the future.

that's about a thousand times better. might want to try wider.


I looked at the this earlier and wanted to like the original, but it just didn't do it for me. i think it's caught somewhere between reality and fantasy. the new version is more realistic with a hint of "hmm". It now looks like the intersection of two trails with a bend in a creek.

also, it fits on my monitor, which is nice.

agreed edit is great,i admire your patience

Wow--that edit made a huge difference. The scene as a whole may not be ideal, but the water portion with the rocks has an intense kind of 3D projection to it. Crazy.

So, first pict we can name "all pixels we have". Second was a try to repair a geometry.
Now, I hope, it's more-less finally photo:

1. It's less distorted than second pict because I need more area of water:
- 4% of image height added
- 20% cylindrical distortion (but the strongest effect was on added margins)
- resampling with -5% of height only (I don't want to make spruce's trunks to wide).
2. Crop - cuted out: a lot of upper trees, all left path, some of right path, added margin on bottom
- all because the water is the main subject.
3. More saturation gives more candy-hdr expression - now this place look like in sunny noon... without shadows less realistic but more "hmm"

Now I can see, each "column" could be 2-pict only (normal + shifted down) - finally 24 pics less and we can see ~<180 deg horizontally.

Wow both edits made such a difference! The photo before was somehow unsettling to me, I couldnt get past it and see the vision. Now i see the vision you were going for and really like it.