Yosemite Valley
These spectacular views of Yosemite Valley and
Half Dome at sunset in mid-August, 1999 were taken from Glacier
Point. Yosemite National Park contains some of the most
beautiful mountain scenes in the USA.
The equipment used included my standard Canon EOS
Elan camera with the Canon 28-135 mm IS (image stabilization) lens,
at approximately 100 mm. I used Kodak Royal Gold 100,
and took all of the images used to create the final image by hand
(no tripod).
Click
on the thumbnail images below to see a larger version of the image.
Panorama YV1:
Half-Dome Early Sunset
Copyright (c) 2003 by Eric C. Anderson
All Rights Reserved
This is the largest image - about
100 MB in size. I used portrait orientation to capture the
image to give maximum resolution. A total of 9 overlapping images
were taken, using manual exposure to force each to have the same
exposure. I used Photo Vista to create the final image, and did some
minor touch-up around the edges with Photoshop.
Panorama
YV2: Half-Dome Late Sunset
Copyright (c) 2003 by Eric C. Anderson
All Rights Reserved
This panorama was captured with 4
images in landscape orientation, and is about 40 MB in size.
This is the final glow of the sun just before setting behind the
mountain ridges. Stitched using PhotoVista
Panorama YV3:
Glacier Point After Sunset
Copyright (c) 2003 by Eric C. Anderson
All Rights Reserved
This panorama was captured quickly
on the way to the car (we were trying to get away before the crush).
Because of the image stabilization capability of the lens, I was
able to hand-hold this series with exposures near 1/20 second.
The aperture was set at f/8 to keep edge drop-off down - a major
killer of panoramas. This used 4 separate landscape images,
stitched using Photo Vista.
