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Published: 2007-07-31 01:50:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 1990; Favourites: 81; Downloads: 0
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This was taken late a bit before midnight with the low sun lighting up the clouds and rain in the left and making two rainbows to the right.If you enjoyed this panorama, I have a fold with a few others as well: netrex.deviantart.com/gallery/β¦
Update: I developed the raw files for this panorama again today to get it more the way I want it, which I wasn't able to in 2007.
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OMG! It's so beautiful and creepy at the same time! (creepy in a good way!)
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Wow, what an incredible shot! Gorgeous sky and such a quaint little town~! 
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Glad you liked it 
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Glad you liked it
It's Ballstad in Lofoten. If you get the chance, visit Lofoten. Nothing like it.
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Is this northern lights? If so I'd like to see more pls.
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No, that's the low midnight sun
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ok. so is it up there during winter? The northern lights. I wish to see them one day naked eyes.
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Yeah, northern lights are visible when it gets dark again, and they can be quite something to see
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Nice. Can you discuss your methodology?
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Of course
There is nothing special about this one though. Except for what I photographed. As you can see from the EXIF-information, this images is not really new. I just re-did it from scratch today.
After taking the exposures as close to each other in time as possible, as straight as I can, I convert the RAW files in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR), I open all at the same time and adjust all the RAW-files at the same time in the converter (I select them all with Ctrl+A in ACR). Then save them as TIFF-files. It they're very distorted by the lens, I open them in Photoshop straight from ACR and correct them with PTLens, and after that save them as TIFF-files.
The next thing is opening them in PTGui. I use SmartBlend to blend them in PTGui as it does a better job since I'm not using a proper panoramic head on my tripod :/ But it does a pretty good job. With a proper panoramic head, sticthing is incredibly easy. Then I save it from PTGui in as high a resolution as possible. Open it in Photoshop and crop away the edges to get away the black edges and to get it into the format I want. Then I work on it like a normal image, only it takes longer due to the size. This one is about 44.5 megapixels big, just a bit wider than what dA allows (without a print account), so I resize it down to 12000*whatever it becomes, on this on it's 12000*3632 pixels, and upload
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Thanks, that's what I was wondering. About what I expected. I've been trying to use Hugin, but without reading it's how-to thoroughly, I'm not getting good results.
Here's a side question - You can upload a separate file for a print than for the deviation? I've tried that but never seemed to either figure out how or confirm you could. Guess I could send a msg to help
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To upload a new file for print you click Edit Print, or go to the print page and do it from there. Then click "Adjust Image" button on one or any of the print types you use. There you click the "Change Image" button and then "Add a File" button. It doesn't matter which of the print types you click "Adjust Image" on, cause when you've uploaded a new file, it stays. So when you have for example clicked "Adjust Image" on "Photo Prints", and have fixed those, you can go to the "Fin Arts Prints" tab and click "Adjust Image" there, then click "Change Image", and you'll see the file you uploaded on "Photo Prints" is still there and can be chose for these prints as well.
I like it this way. Then I can upload one image with a copyright notice on it for the preview (the one shown on the devation page), and one for the print without the copyright notice on it
My explanation might be a bit messy, but I hope you understand what I mean
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well i figured there had to be a way to do that, otherwise how would people provide different levels of sharpness applied for web versus print. Thanks.
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I don't have enough words to say how beautiful this picture (and the others too) is! You lucky guy to have such good landscapes to take! Congratulations.
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Wow, thank you for the kind words 
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Absolutely beautiful. Which town in the Lofotens, exactly?
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Thank you, glad you liked it
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Thanks a lot
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Thank you so much
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Wow! Knall farger til venstre
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Thanks
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beautiful panorama, cool that you can also see a double rainbow in there as well
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Thanks
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beautiful image, and so well stitched! excellent shot.
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Thanks a lot
On my other that here I have too much of an effect from the polarizing filter, which is something I'm still experimenting with, but this turned out better right away
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i think you have to be careful using circular polarising filters in stitching panoramas, unless you manage to accurately rotate the filter proportionally to the rotation of the camera. it changes the lighting contrast enough to make the stitching program work hard to correct it, so i prefer to attempt contrast adjustment in post-process. unless you are trying to remove reflection on water, it doesn't seem worth the hassle. it's a very strong image!
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Yeah, it's a challenge alright
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Thanks
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What is the name of that beauty land?
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It's Norway
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