Somewhere in white
Up in time
Proportions
Framed
Snow lost
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How to merge full-res pictures for producing up to 50-picture-wide stitched-panorama
Click each panorama to open it in a new tab and click it again to view it 100% – each picture is 768 px h x several thousands w px
Above, a 50 picture stitched panorama: click it to open in a new tab and click it again to see it at 100%. This huge view spans from the Kleiner Myhten peak in caton Schwyz (left, 1811 m.s.l.) to mount Pilatus behind Lucerne (right, 2,128 m.s.l.). The mountains of at least 5 cantons are visible: can you spot the antenna on the Titlis peak?
Above, a 21 picture stitched panorama shot with the Nikon 70-200 mm pointing south at the Alpine border between Canton Graubünden and Italy
Above, a 12 picture stitched panorama shot direction lake Lucerne
Finally, a 6 picture stitched panorama shot with the Nikon 50 mm from Rigi Kulm towards Rigi Scheidegg.
With less than 16GB memory, merging a panorama made out of more than 10 pictures can be a problem with Hugin. Especially with pictures of 36 MP resolution like with Nikon D800. A solution comes from downsizing the pictures either to a) 5000 x 3333 px, for panorama stitches made out of max 20 pictures or b) 1600 x 1067 px, for panoramas up to 50 pictures. Here above you have panoramic views from Mount Rigi, “The Queen of mountains”, a 1,798 meter high peak in Switzerland.
Climb up to Rigi, the Queen of the Mountains, with Europe’s oldest mountain railways
Europe’s oldest mountain railways were built in 1870 on mount Rigi. With its red wagons, Rigi Railways bring you up to 1,798 m.s.l. from Viznau, at the shores of Lake Lucerne. The gauge rack railway reaches the highest peak, Rigi Kulm, through galleries, bridges and awesome scenarios.
Rigi raylway turntable linking station and depot at Viznau terminal
Once the train is positioned, everything is ready to climb up to Rigi Kulm!
Train and landscape reflections and viceversa
After Kaltbad middle-station, the snow still covers the landscape
Leaving behind the rail-junction at Rigi Staffel
Hikers and skiers, all up by train.
Here we are, the massive Pilatus by Lucerne as background, ready for the hike downhill in the snow! All pictures shot with Nikon D800 + 50 mm f/1.4G – click each picture to enlarge.
A place in the sun above 3,000 meters
When fog and clouds shade your day, climb up the 3,000 meters of Titlis …
… whites and blues are there waiting for you!
Either for photography or skiing … or both!
Lazily swing above the slopes …
… and let gravity bring you 2,000 meters down.
Pictures shot on the move with the snow-proof Nikon D800 + 50 mm f/1.4G: click each picture to enlarge (9x-shot-panorama assembled with Hugin)
Color or black-and-white snow landscapes?
Snow landscapes: better color or b/w ? Sometimes, it is difficult to choose. Colorful spots might enhance white snow, still black-and-white boosts structures. This time I could not choose: and you?
Grasses: structures or colors ?
Snow white or color ?
Woods: black shapes on white snow or colorful objects?
People: modern or past times?
Benches: dominant or hidden ?
Repetitive patterns: colorful silhouettes or white snow on black trees?
Click on each picture to compare color and b/w shots.
