HDR Panorama 42 shots

We had two assignments for Monday's Lab: High Dynamic Range and Panorama. I decided to try to put the two together. Rita, Marian and I drove up to Nine Pipes Wildlife Refuge directly across from the Mission Mountains. The middle of the day was not the greatest for shooting and the clouds were uncooperative. The scene didn't have great dynamic range either but we had to get the shot.

This is 14 vertical shots across with three shot bracketing of 2/3 of a stop for each shot. So I had photoshop stitch each stop's 14 shots together and then loaded the three panoramas back in to photoshop to mask off the best aspects of each. It took several hours and many GB of RAM to achieve this. Click on the image to view larger version. You may have to scroll horizontally to see the whole image. In the original the sky does not have the wavy pattern. That is jpeg compression to the image to scale it down for the web.