Thread: Rocky Mountain Panoramas

Beaut shots Bob

Think that squirrel has Aussie relations they are just much bigger and don't climb tree's or eat nuts.

The photo of the canoe speaks volumes an amazing shot, one of solitude on peaceful waters.

Alberta now - my you do get around.

Very nice shots Bob. What do you use to put the pano's together?

Originally Posted by hitch

Alberta now - my you do get around.
Very nice shots Bob. What do you use to put the pano's together?

Thanks Hitch, yeah this year is a real get around sort of year. I even cancelled my trip to Asia in October - otherwise I would get no woodworking done this year.
I'm just using the merge tool in photoshop - there are better programs out there but it's fast and easy to use.

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Beaut shots Bob
Think that squirrel has Aussie relations they are just much bigger and don't climb tree's or eat nuts.
The photo of the canoe speaks volumes an amazing shot, one of solitude on peaceful waters.

Thanks Wheelin. I took over 400 photos of the lake and surrounds over two days and about 60 photos of the scenery that incorporated the canoe. (Plus about 60 photos of Moraine Lake and about 550 of the Columbia Icefields and the Icefield Highway (Highway 93) one of the worlds most amazing roads.

Lake Louise is a photographers heaven. Generally the best conditions are the early morning about 6 am when it was relatively clear and still and the reflections were reasonably steady. By around 7:30 am there were were hundreds of people an hour photographing the lake building to thousands per hour in the afternoon. Not many seemed to be worrying about the canoe.

Here are a few more of the better canoe shots - and I have heaps more.
The one with the canoe glowing orange is where the sunlight was peeking up over the mountains at the side of the lake - you can just see the touching the tips of teh trees - for a few minutes the canoe glowed a fiery orange contrasting against the cold blue water and green trees. I'm far from convinced I have the levels right on this shot - st

thank goodness its digital Bob

Wow now they are bloody fantastic time for a Blog or Photo site to view them from the hours I/we could spend checking them out no woodwork would get done

Originally Posted by wheelinround

thank goodness its digital Bob

We spent 6 days in the US and I took about 600 photos - OK jet lag really knocked us around for about 3 days.
2 weeks in Canada and so far 3261 photos.

20 Gb of Photos all up!

Wow now they are bloody fantastic time for a Blog or Photo site to view them from the hours I/we could spend checking them out no woodwork would get done

Thanks Wheelin.
RE: Blog
I'm flat out handling photos, making panoramas, processing and emailing photos etc to start a blog.

Got to go and back up the photos.

Bob I hope they are backed up more than one way

Emailing 3500 photos sorry had to pop backwards to show LOMl the pics.

Did you get any night shots of the lake Bob that would have been an amazing sight.

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Bob I hope they are backed up more than one way

I'm burning DVDs right now.

Emailing 3500 photos sorry had to pop backwards to show LOMl the pics.

Did you get any night shots of the lake Bob that would have been an amazing sight.

That would have been a good idea but the first night we were there it was raining and second night I was knackered after the hike, had a couple of beers with dinner and passed out before it was half dark dark (10:30 pm)

Here the Google earth links for the area
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&s...,0.112181&z=14

We basically walked from the east side of the lake to the middle of this map.
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada - Google Maps

Nice hike all that fresh air no wonder you passed out.

I recall when going down the snow often telling the party goers if they were drinking after the day then heading back to the motel watch the cold snap. We'd walk out as a group and often see someone hitting the pavement.

A few more panoramas I put together this evening.
Not really the best for consistency of exposure and some are a bit wonky but I was probably balancing on a rock trying to take the photos and its quite easy to tilt the camera. I did have a monopod with me but I didn't always use it.

Beautiful photos Bob

What Kev said, Bob. Thanks. It's a beautiful world, different but beautiful.

Bob they are fantastic shots well put together The stitch feature in what your using must be a heaven sent bit of kit.

Ray

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Bob they are fantastic shots well put together The stitch feature in what your using must be a heaven sent bit of kit.

Ray

Cheers fellas.

I'm just using the photomerge function in Photoshop to make these panoramas. I used to use the Quicktime VR package from Apple and make Quicktime VR panoramas, but about 4 years ago this product was no longer supported by the Apple OS and so I now just use photoshop. I started making panoramas back in 1974 when I got my first SLR. I used to do them by sticky taping photos together and have old scrap books full of these things. Sometime I should scan some of these print versions into my computer and stitch them together.

Stitching photos is a great function to have, but don't you hate it when people and cars get in the way.

Bob in the Banff photo of the street scene you have a car going through the intersection with no front end pulling a trailer with no rear end