When I found that my widest lens couldn’t include the winding river and the distant hills on the right side of the frame, I decided to take a few vertical images and stitch them together in Lightroom.
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General feedback on the image. Thanks.
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Panoramic stitch of a few vertical frames in Lightroom.
Canon 80D, 18-135mm lens at 18mm, f/11, 30 sec, ISO 100.
Basic adjustments in Lightroom along with a linear gradient on the sky to darken and add some contrast.
Ted: My first impression was, “fish eye distortion” but after researching this location the apparent bowl of the horizon is really like this. I lived in Spokane and went through the Palouse in the early 1980’s but that was in my pre-photography life so I missed all of those wonderful opportunities. Oh well, a good reason to go back.
In this image I especially like the light and that swirl in the output pool is icing on a very fine cake. Did you use a ND filter to get the SS you used? Beautiful scene and subject superbly rendered. >=))>
Makes me want a cup of cocoa, Ted. This must have been runoff season dumping all that Palouse loess into the river. A beautiful panorama of this area and as Bill mentioned the swirl of cream on the cocoa really makes this image shine.
Thank you @Bill_Fach and @Dennis_Plank for your kind comments. I have had other people who have viewed this image comment on the color of the water, but nobody ever described it like you both did. I’m glad it made an impression with you.
