Minaret Lake HDR Panorama

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Minaret Lake HDR Panorama

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5 frames wide, 3 shots per frame and blended in one HDR, a total of 15 shots.
Give it few seconds to load, and the resolution is not as good of coarse
on the computer screen.
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Wow!

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Who can't do everything he used to and what he can do takes a hell of a lot longer!
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That's just mind boggling.
How do you manage to combine three exposures when the water is rippling (and thus not matching)?
And also stitch them afterwards, with a similar difficulty I would imagine?
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It works in most cases.
This photo is also a HDR made of 3 photo's at different exposure combined and the
cascade turned out fine, no over exposure in the water, and the detail in the
shaded area's are good.
If this would have been a single photo I would have had to expose for the water and
the shaded area's would have had been much, much darker.
One the other hand if I compromised for both the shaded and highlights the photo
would have been a compromise.
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Thanks for the reply.
The impression i am getting is that photoshop (or photomatrix) is smart enough to make the differences in water ripples between the 3 exposures seem natural/unnoticeable

Very lovely pic of the cascade too
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