Have just returned from Jacis Safari Camp doing some images for their newly developed Safari Lodge — which is all part of the Classic Safari Camps of Africa book that I am updating. had some fun with my panoramic tripod head. These images were stitched using Photoshop CS5 and I think that it did a pretty good job. I lost the sky on the original image and did my best to blend in a new one taken that same evening. CS5 has some pretty fine selection and refine edges tools but its really tricky with the leaves. It looks a bit artificial but overall I think its a nice effect. A bit more work and it might be perfect.
Great shot!
I see you took care to rotate the camera around the lens’ nodal point? Esp the lines on the deck can be a nightmare to get right if the camera wasn’t rotated properly. What panorama head did you use? I have a NodalNinja3 (on a RD16 rotator and their excellent EZ-leveler-II), which fits my smallish DSLR with equally smallish fixed focal length lenses, but not the larger f/2.8 standard zoom at *all* focal lengths.
Concerning the sky, I would have bracketed (0Ev and -2Ev at least) the shots, but I don’t think exposure fusion (which is what I generally use) would have resulted in quite as dramatic a result. Did you bracket, or is the foreground derived from one series with one exposure only?
Wim