Summit sunrise, from October 2017, but I have re-processed it. The journey continues.
Spruce Mountain Fire Tower
3am alarm. Hiking by 4:30am. Startled a moose midway up the trail. Arrived at the end of blue hour, climbed the tower in the wind and was not disappointed. I was a bit unnerved swaying in howling wind, and while I took many many images I lost my composure and did not image as well as I intended.
Sun, Rising, River
Morning light on the Winooski River
Sunrise Hike
2am alarm, hiking by 3:30 under a headlamp. Summit of Camel’s Hump for the end of blue hour, sky moody and cloudy, the valleys hidden below in the clouds. The sun made a very brief appearance before I started down the mountain.
Morning Cloud, Moody Sky
A morning walk on the northern beaches of Burlington.
Sunrise – Spine of the Northern Green Mountains
Captured on my drive home from capturing the Milky Way, the sun just below the horizon – Mt. Mansfield on the left, Camel’s Hump on the right.
Sunrise, Redux
This is (finally) 3 exposures, stitched and stacked…. lots of work, and minuscule glitches that I hand corrected. 39 camera positions, bracketed in 3 shots for 117 images. WordPress seems to be choking on my full size 20k pixel wide panoramas – so this is a reduced file size in order to not have to get on my hosting support chat again this week.
Learning, failing, inspired, imaging.
Summit of Camel’s Hump, Vermont. Moon over summit, Mount Washington ~78 miles distant near the center of the frame, fog in the river valleys, sun peeking over the horizon, Mount Mansfield, the tallest peak in VT to the left.
Summit, Sunrise
The moon over the summit, Mt. Washington and the White Mountains visible ~78 miles away, the sun rising, and Mt. Mansfield, the highest peak in VT on the left.
A long process to get this to manually stitch – I ended up reverting to Hugin, then doing some cleanup in Ps and final adjustment in Lr.
The computer ran for a couple of hours straight, fans blaring, blending this together.
Lots learned… and I will sit with this version for a time and let the process sink in.
Sunrise
I set the alarm for 1:30am, hit snooze, and almost decided to stay in bed. I did get out of bed, put the coffee on and was driving by 2:05am. Hiking by 3:05am up the Burrows trail. I regretted not getting up on time – as I missed my favorite light of the day – when the sun isn’t above the horizon yet, and the sky is a series of bands from orange to blue to indigo.
This is a further experiment for practicing my technique for a larger project – multiple camera positions shot from a pano / nodal head. The images are then lightly processed, exported for PTGui stitching, then blended in Lr / Ps