Rainy Day

Rainy Day
Originally uploaded by jezza323

Well its been raining since the beginning of the weekend here now (on and off raining anyway). Here is a shot I got of some rain clouds in between the showers. Unfortunately the background is a boring grey rather than white or blue sky (or even better more cloud formations)

This is a 3 shot panorama. I shot using the K200D and Jupiter-9 85mm lens with aperture set to f5.6. I made sure to shoot the frames quickly so the movement of the clouds wouldn't interfere with the stitching.

Shooting and Processing as follows:

1. Shot in Pentax RAW (PEF)
2. Imported into Lightroom 2.5
3. Exported to 3x 16 bit TIFF
4. Stitched using Autopano Giga
5. Rendered to a single 16 bit TIFF
6. Imported new TIFF into Lightroom 2.5
7. Applied adjustments in Lightroom (clarity, contrast, white balance)
8. Exported to JPG for Web