Comments on: The Majesty (my largest photo ever)

By: Cris Thornton

Cris Thornton — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:57:47 +0000

hmmm, well. speachless!

By: Paul Mejia

Paul Mejia — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:19:48 +0000

I wish I was there I wonder if that view look like that in person..

By: Rask

Rask — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:46:44 +0000

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…

By: Casey Van Nyhuis

Casey Van Nyhuis — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:53:07 +0000

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!

By: John Kicinsi

John Kicinsi — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:57:31 +0000

“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”

By: Hans Mast

Hans Mast — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:45:16 +0000

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.

By: Evan Spellman

Evan Spellman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:27:05 +0000

that is one fantastic photographic accomplishment!
just my 2cents worth….right up there with the all time masters!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:52:44 +0000

I always enjoy your pictures, but had to comment on this one. Stunning! And I know required a lot of effort.

By: tratcliff

tratcliff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:57:26 +0000

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!

By: titter85

titter85 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:26:13 +0000

Freaking awesome! I’m curious about the answer for Hans Mast questions! Amazing! 90 photos! Man! Cool!

By: Hans Mast

Hans Mast — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:27:20 +0000

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.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:23:18 +0000

Un-freakin’ real. Very nice.

By: slavenka

slavenka — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:59:21 +0000

Bravo maestro!

By: james

james — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:58:35 +0000

Awesome! I’d mount it on a corridor side wall(large enough) from floor to ceiling.

By: nzm

nzm — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:34:45 +0000

Simply Superb.

Bravo!

By: D. A. Taylor

D. A. Taylor — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:50:56 +0000

“I’m not sure where I would put it”….

How about in my living room! AMAZING!

By: Suzanne Marchand

Suzanne Marchand — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:07:50 +0000

Tout simplement superbe. Vous etes un artiste, Trey. Bravo et continuez.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:16:48 +0000

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

By: neil

neil — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:29:06 +0000

What can I say! This is simply fantabulous!
You ARE STILL the master Trey!

By: spencer

spencer — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:06:15 +0000

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!