This is one of the largest pieces I have ever made; the giant TIFF is about 21,000 pixels across (this one I uploaded is only 15,000 pixels across and has been downgraded to JPEG to fit inside the draconian upload requirements). I shot it one cool and crisp morning at Glacier National Park in this crystal clear lake that is fed by glacial runoff. It is comprised of 90 different photos that took a small eternity to mix together into an epic HDR. I’ve been thinking about having a 10-foot mural printed at walk-up resolution… but I am not quite sure where I would put it!
If you click on the shot, you can go to the Flickr site. From there, you can click on ALL SIZES to get to the largest size to see the detail, should you be so inclined!
Also, for those of you that are interested in learning more about HDR and this kind of photography, I have an HDR Tutorial, which you might enjoy.
September 27th, 2008 22:45 | Susan
Oh wow! This is super fantastic – so crystal clear!
September 27th, 2008 23:21 | Terry
This is great Trey!
September 27th, 2008 23:35 | Stuck In Customs
Hey thanks – glad you dig it!
September 27th, 2008 23:54 | Zim
Wow, amazing work!
September 28th, 2008 00:10 | p.m.w
beautiful
September 28th, 2008 01:36 | spencer
i dont know about everyone else, but i am very interested to know how you stitched together/AEB 90 photos!
oh, and btw…great shot!
September 28th, 2008 03:59 | neil
What can I say! This is simply fantabulous!
You ARE STILL the master Trey!
September 28th, 2008 06:46 | Tom
Trey, this is simply amazing and one of the best pictures I’ve ever seen in my life, after looking at the Majesty my eye traveled, on it’s own, right down to the lower left hand side to see the Pond rocks in the Foreground. This is WONDERFUL
September 28th, 2008 09:37 | Suzanne Marchand
Tout simplement superbe. Vous etes un artiste, Trey. Bravo et continuez.
September 28th, 2008 10:20 | D. A. Taylor
“I’m not sure where I would put it”….
How about in my living room! AMAZING!
September 28th, 2008 13:04 | nzm
Simply Superb.
Bravo!
September 28th, 2008 14:28 | james
Awesome! I’d mount it on a corridor side wall(large enough) from floor to ceiling.
September 28th, 2008 17:29 | slavenka
Bravo maestro!
September 28th, 2008 20:53 | Steve
Un-freakin’ real. Very nice.
September 28th, 2008 23:57 | Hans Mast
Very nice, Trey! I assume you used AutoPano Pro, because that’s the best software out there.
I have several questions: Did you stitch then HDR or HDR then stitch? What approximate grid pattern did you use to shoot the 90 shots? (i.e. 10 across, 9 down) Does the 90 include the bracketed exposures or just the unique frames? (In other words, did you shoot 18 sets of five or 90 sets of five?)
James, I would never put it in a hallway; you could never see the whole thing at once.
September 29th, 2008 00:56 | titter85
Freaking awesome! I’m curious about the answer for Hans Mast questions! Amazing! 90 photos! Man! Cool!
September 29th, 2008 09:27 | tratcliff
Thanks yall!
The 90 shots were 3 rows of 10 columns each. Each grid square had 3 shots at 3 exposures. I tried 8 different stitching techniques but found the best luck with a crazy combination of Photomatix and PTGui… I will do some more panoramas then maybe write a tutorial!
September 29th, 2008 11:22 | Mike
I always enjoy your pictures, but had to comment on this one. Stunning! And I know required a lot of effort.
September 29th, 2008 18:57 | Evan Spellman
that is one fantastic photographic accomplishment!
just my 2cents worth….right up there with the all time masters!
September 29th, 2008 23:15 | Hans Mast
Ah, cool. PTGui is good too. HDR panos is something I do quite a bit of (even though my quality is far below your own). If I do HDR then stitch, I simply HDR each frame in Photomatix then stitch it with AutoPano Pro. If I stitch then HDR, I stitch the regularly exposed frames (+/-0) in AutoPano Pro. Then I save the stitch file and open it with Notepad. I modify the stitch file (which is a plain text file with all the proper coordinates, warp angles, etc) to point to the underexposed (-2) frames and save a copy. I do the same with the +2s. (This is necessary because otherwise each detection by APP will be subtly different (due to the difference in exposure and information) and will be unsuitable for HDRing.) I then stitch them. Then I HDR/Tonemap the three huge stitched frames with Photomatix.
October 5th, 2008 17:27 | John Kicinsi
“WOW”
I grew up in Oklahoma and we had a small lake behind the house, in the evenings when the sun began to go down and the wind died down, this is whst i would see, although not as grandur as this, but it reminded me of home. “A PICTURE CAN SAY A THOUSAND WORDS”
“A BEUTIFUL PICTURES CAN EVOKE A THOUSAND EMOTIONS”
November 6th, 2008 21:23 | Casey Van Nyhuis
So did you put together 3 complete panoramas and then process them into an HDR? or did you process each picture into an HDR and then stitch all of the HDR pictures into a panorama?
AMAZING WORK!
and im sure i speak for everyone when i say, thanks for showing us all how it’s done!
December 19th, 2008 12:16 | Rask
I’m a huge fan of your particular brand of the high-saturation HDR, and this is obviously an amazing photo. But if you’ll forgive me, I really can’t understand why you’ve coloured it this way. The blue/yellow contrast is just too great, and it renders an otherwise ‘natural beauty’-type photo unnatural. The saturation of the sky is just too much for me.
This is coming from someone who will never be half the photographer you are, of course…
June 5th, 2009 08:19 | Paul Mejia
I wish I was there I wonder if that view look like that in person..
June 19th, 2009 05:57 | Facebook User
hmmm, well. speachless!