Opera House Panorama

[mattb]

PJ seemed to like this one on Facebook so I thought I'd share it here too. It's a 9 shot panorama I stitched in Photoshop CS5.
I shot the frames vertically with my beloved Pentax DA 15mm Limited lens on my K-5 on a Manfrotto BeFree travel tripod. After stitching and doing basic level adjustments I ran it through Nik Color Efx Pro 2 to bring out some additional detail and color.
This was my second try at this photo since the day before it was crowded and didn't have the tripod.
I went early in the morning hoping for sunrise color but it was pretty gray. But still an interesting sky so I'm happy enough with it.


IMGP3904-Edit2 by MattB.net, on Flickr

My SSD in my main photo processing PC at home failed so I'm getting a slow start to going through all these (~60 GB of RAW files). I've got the PC up and running again on an old mechanical drive but it's painfully slow now that I got used to that SSD!

[Don Schaeffer]

Just plain breathtaking shot. The colors are beautiful. It's tack sharp. You captured some real subtleties in the clouds.

[armando_m]

wonderful image, a different perspective

[Yellow Bird]

I think this shot is beautiful. I love the colors on the building and the overall framing of the shot with the bridge in the background. And I must agree, the clouds are very interesting!

[mattb]

Thanks for the nice comments! It was a fun little mission and it's always even more fun with a favorable result.