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Published: 2008-07-06 17:57:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 943; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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Description Fullview highly recommended. The thumb doesn't give the panorama any justice

Infrared panorama view of the valley Valldal on the west coast of Norway. Stitched together of 12 IR pictures all with a shutter speed of 30" (luckily the clouds didn't move too much, so it was actually possible to stitch the pictures together).

All my other panoramas from Valldal can be found here.

The clouds are casting shadows, so the lighter areas on the mountain sides are where the sun shines through

Post-processing:
Fixed the white balance and the contrast a bit on all the pictures with adobe camera raw. Stitched them together with photomerge in photoshop.

Switched the red and blue channel in channel mixer, adjusted the curves, one curves layer only for the valley. Added a black and white layer set to soft light (90%) and a black and white layer, only on the sky, set to hard light (50%).

Cropped the picture a bit and sharpened.
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Comments: 13

donyindiarto [2008-07-09 16:40:19 +0000 UTC]

no doubt, always wonderful!

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Kvikken In reply to donyindiarto [2008-07-10 19:16:56 +0000 UTC]

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Samedi [2008-07-09 11:57:55 +0000 UTC]

Yaay! :yay:

Wonderful, I usually like the white conversion of the trees but this is nice too. Great that you finally got an IR of it too

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Kvikken In reply to Samedi [2008-07-10 19:16:43 +0000 UTC]

I haven't really tried, or figured out how to get the trees white (except of b&w). But anyways, in this picture I love the pink, it looks like a candy clad valley

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Samedi In reply to Kvikken [2008-07-11 07:57:39 +0000 UTC]

Yep yep, spun sugar or whatever it's called

Just in case you'll wanna do it sometime in the future, I seem to recall he has instructions here for how to make the trees white: [link]

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Kvikken In reply to Samedi [2008-07-11 10:22:16 +0000 UTC]

Ah, less complicated to do that than I thought

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floydiac [2008-07-07 11:11:06 +0000 UTC]

Awww...Rub it in my face, why don't you?

Fantastic scenery, and fantastic photography. I need to go back to Norway...

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Kvikken In reply to floydiac [2008-07-13 18:00:10 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much
Norway is always worth a visit

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CarpeSav [2008-07-06 21:45:03 +0000 UTC]

My expression literally went to:
When I saw this!

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Kvikken In reply to CarpeSav [2008-07-11 10:51:23 +0000 UTC]

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CarpeSav In reply to Kvikken [2008-07-11 18:26:31 +0000 UTC]

<3

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martybell [2008-07-06 20:31:00 +0000 UTC]

awesome! i tried an IR pano before but it didn't go so well

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Kvikken In reply to martybell [2008-07-11 10:52:44 +0000 UTC]

Thank you
I didn't really think this would actually work out, but I had to give it a go, and I'm glad I did
I was lucky with the wind I guess!

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