Three Panoramas taken at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park
1. Light Painting Panorama – 3 overlapping images, taken at night with a tripod and spotlights; Nikon D600
2. Sunset Panorama– 3 images taken at Sunset, taken with my Nikon D600
3. iPhone 5 Panorama– One continuous panorama taken at sunset with my iPhone 5
A little over a week ago, I was able to spend some a beautiful day in Yellowstone National Park with my Professional Imaging class and we ended up at Mammoth Hot Springs for a beautiful sunset. So we lingered long enough to pull off a few light paintings during blue hour, which is the hour after sunset. I rotated my tripod to capture three adjacent scenes, taking to use big spot lights to “paint in the light” to feature certain portions of the beautiful geothermal formations.
It was fun to combine four things I love, to create this image:
1. Light Painting with good friends
2. Yellowstone National Park
3. Panoramic Image Blending in Photoshop (I added some accent dodging and burning)
4. Comm 316 Professional Imaging Class Excursion
CLICK images to enlarge – Light Painting Panorama – Three overlapping light painting images merged in Photoshop
Three separate, overlapping light painted images – Merged in Photoshop (see blended pano above)
Sunset Panorama (three images) taken with my Nikon D600 at sunset
iPhone 5 Panorama – Panoramic Image taken with my iPhone 5 at sunset
I love the rich colors. I love all of them! I love how they almost look like they were snow.
I continue to be impressed with the quality of the iPhone 5 and the panos that come out of them.
I hope you were able to snap a few images while in Salt Lake this past weekend?
Thanks for the comment, AJ. I can’t believe the panos from the iPhone 5 either. It seems to do well as sunset and low light outside. Not so good with indoor low light. But still, once in a while the quality is astounding. And 18 mb pano images are HUGE.
These turned out so so good! I love the shadows and contrast in the first! Your sky looks so beautiful in the next two! I love them!
Hey Julie, I am glad you like them! Light painting does give some cool shadows, but the sunset is hard to beat. We were there at a great time of day! Thanks for the comment 🙂