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Aletsch Glacier by *boli:iconboli:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Landscapes

©2006-2008 *boli
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Submitted: August 1, 2006
Image Size: 696 KB
Resolution: 1920×574
Comments: 45
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Make: SONY
Model: CYBERSHOT
Shutter Speed: 1/160 second
F Number: F/8.0
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Jul 30, 2006, 5:02:02 PM

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Aletsch Glacier

As seen from Bettmerhorn VS, Switzerland. Point of view is about 2600 m above sea level.


:bulletblue: panorama consisting of 8 photographs (handheld), stitched together using "Calico Panorama" [link] *
:bulletred: cropped, added border & logo
:bulletred: adjusted curves a little to increase contrast
:bulletred: increased saturation a little bit
:bulletred: sharpened

* A nice & easy tool for Mac OS X. I used to do this in Windows (with Panorama Factory), but I no longer have a Windows PC and couldn't be bothered to start Parallels to run Windows... ;)

edit: had the image restitched with only 8 photographs, as i cropped one away anyway. also increased sharpness & saturation a little, and used a higher quality jpg compression (to reduce compression artefacts in earlier version).

edit 2: for a satellite picture go to [link] and zoom out once to see the glacier.
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~men8rnb:iconmen8rnb: Aug 2, 2006, 2:08:08 AM
Thats well good. Sharp and crisp as well. Good work that man.
~vulpul:iconvulpul: Aug 2, 2006, 3:01:14 AM
:worship: One of the best subjects for a panoramic image! :nod:
~thesuper:iconthesuper: Aug 2, 2006, 4:01:55 AM
You did one helluva stitch job :thumbsup:

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An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. (Paul Valery)
~SomeInspiringTitle:iconSomeInspiringTitle: Aug 2, 2006, 4:42:55 AM
Excellent work, i can feel the steady motion of the glacier. Beautiful perspective and sense of scale, bravo.
=njim:iconnjim: Aug 2, 2006, 5:59:32 AM
yeah this is wonderful
beautiful stitching here

o and welcome back i guess :)

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death is the road to awe
~netarco:iconnetarco: Aug 2, 2006, 6:41:47 AM
Haven't seen anything from you in a while! This looks amazing, incredible capture.

Thanks for telling about the panorama software, I've always done mine in Photoshop manually and that just takes too long. I'll try this out next time I have one to stitch.
~Shadowfeared:iconShadowfeared: Aug 2, 2006, 10:41:01 AM
WOW!!!

I've never actually seen someone show the path of a glacier before, superb work and absolutely a :+fav:!! :)
*boli:iconboli: Aug 2, 2006, 10:44:47 AM
thanks a lot! :)

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*boli:iconboli: Aug 2, 2006, 10:58:48 AM
thank you. :)

and you're welcome. Calico worked pretty well for this and another (upcoming) panorama. you can try before you buy, the pano will have watermarks until you register, though.
Yup, stitching manually is tiresome - at least for someone who isn't "fluent in Photoshop" ;) - haven't done so more than a couple of times, as it took me too long. :O_o:

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what's this? take a guess... :slow:

friends: *creatyves ~fritsch ~raumzeit ~aap *macmartin ~aeschinoer ~meistyle
*boli:iconboli: Aug 2, 2006, 11:04:40 AM
thank you. :)

i didn't have much to do with the stitching... the software did its job... ;) i'm happy with how it turned out... :aww:

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friends: *creatyves ~fritsch ~raumzeit ~aap *macmartin ~aeschinoer ~meistyle
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