Last Rays

[AlanLichty]

The last of the day from a nice sunset last week looking west over the Columbia River Valley. 3 panels at 70mm.

C&C always welcome.

 

[JimFox]

That's really nice Alan. I do like it when the sun lights up the underside of the clouds like that.

Do you get better resolution and detail by doing at pano at 70mm compared to a single image at 210mm (I forget it's exact focal length).

 

[AlanLichty]

That's really nice Alan. I do like it when the sun lights up the underside of the clouds like that.

Do you get better resolution and detail by doing at pano at 70mm compared to a single image at 210mm (I forget it's exact focal length).

Thanks Jim - yes to the greater detail and not by a small margin. I shoot the 70mm lens using 48MP resolution so the original merged image is 13164 x 5328 pixels vs. cropping down a single shot at 24mm to a similar frame comes out as 4181 x 1824 pixels. I actually cropped down the 70mm version above to remove uninteresting dark clouds at the top so the result above is 11389 x 5280 before resizing for web.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice sunset skies and the setting sun.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice sunset skies and the setting sun.

Thanks Jameel - I had hopes this one was going to go full nuclear as the sun dropped and the colors developed but the colors disappeared right after the sun dropped below Portland's West Hills. There were lots of clouds approaching that I couldn't see yet that acted just like a marine layer.