Not a HDR, neither shot with a dSLR, but a hand stitched/blended Vertorama. (rhythms!)
I first saw the term “vertorama” in one of Daniel Cheong’s flickr photos then read more about it from Panorama_Paul Vertorama tutorial , there’s also an interesting read here. Basically Vertorama are taken by taking at least 2 landscape shots, one above another, and combined to become a “vertical panorama”. The reason I like the vertoramas is that they are more pleasant looking than HDR done badly, requires less shots, replicate what the graduated filter does, works even with the simplest auto settings, and looks great like a medium format photo with amazing lighting contrast especially taking sunset photos.
During the evening run at Shoreline park towards Adobe creek, I thought the sunset shouldn’t be gone to again and took this sequence of photos which wouldn’t stich a panorama well with my Lumix FX500. The 3 rightmost photos were used for the vertorama.
As the photos didn’t overlap well, I did the blending by hand. The images were added as separate layers, positioned them manually to align, applied masks, blending and contrast adjustments. Applied highlights and shadows and curve adjustments but the microcontrast is too strong.
Please comment if you think the post process could be done better or differently.
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