This is another panoramic experiment using a local landscape as the backdrop.   I could have used my wide lens to take this shot but instead I opted to use a 70-300mm lens and then use a program for Linux called Hugin Batch Processor to stitch the images together.  It gives me an overall larger image than a single shot through a wide lens would give me and I get the detail from all of the shots combined, which in turn gives me a much bigger end print size.  The picture itself … its ok… nothing I’ll win any awards for but the process to get there was quite interesting and I look forward to creating more images in the future using the same method.

I was out in a local trail area called the Enduro Trail. Its part of the Kisatche National Forest area in Louisiana and its geared towards ATV usage. And this year the majority of the areas had gone through a controlled burn to “help” mother nature along. I’m not a big fan of controlled burns. Mother nature did just fine on her own before we came along to “help” out. Anyways getting off of my soap box the purpose of my trip was to get out of the house and take some landscape & HDR images as 2008 has been a slow year for me photographically speaking. Winter Mushrooms is the 1st HDR image I’ve processed out of the collection of photographs taken from that session and I’m loving it. The image seems to really stand out in its coloration without being surreal as so many images on the net seem to appear with the HDR technique applied to them nowadays. So yea, this is it. HDR applied realistically.