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The Lofoten Islands offer some of the best mountain scenery and hiking in the world. The going is tough, long hikes, a high degree of exposure and steep gradients, but the rewards are worth it.

I've only just got around to editing this expansive view. The composition isn't ideal, I would have loved to have reduced that scree in the foreground, but hopefully the massive scale makes up for it!

Technically....This is 3 horizontal shots spanning approximate 160 degrees. I bracketed at -1.5EV 0EV and +1.5 EV. Only the brightest 2 sets of exposures were required. I did some basic edits in Lightroom to adjust whitebalance, colour and contrast before exporting as TIFFs. I used PTGUI to create a panorama of the brightest set of exposures. I then overwrote those exposures with the 0EV ones and reran the stitch. This produced two identical panoramas that I then imported as layers in Photoshop. I did some stitching correction and then an exposure blend using layer masks. I duplicated the two layers and flattened the duplicate. I then warped the layer to pull the corners back to a rectilinear geometry. I then cropped the image. Finally I did some work to reduce the effects of haze and improve contrast in the distance and also made some adjustments to correct for uneven polarisation.
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~Clandesty Mar 2, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Thanks for sharing these photos! I can imagine myself there. Awesome shots. :)
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~Alex37 Mar 5, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed them
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~anutosho Dec 27, 2012
perfect!
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~Alex37 Jan 1, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
:)
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*aprmason Nov 5, 2012
Alex,

Unbelievably beautiful.

Toni.
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~carlosdanielam Oct 14, 2012
Nice pic
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=i-am-JENius Oct 14, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Wonderful capture!
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*LEkROm Oct 12, 2012  Professional Photographer
just fabulous, Alex!!
have you played with darkening it a tad?
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~Alex37 Oct 15, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Hmm thats not really something I would consider. I tend to find that prints always look darker so I try to process brighter even though I lose a little colour and contrast doing that. Thanks for the suggestion though :)
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*LEkROm Oct 15, 2012  Professional Photographer
no worries :)
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