Standing on the limestone escarpment at Loggerheads Country Park, just outside of Mold in North Wales, gives this fantastic view out over the Clwydian Range of mountains, just to the west of you.
A few days ago I was up early and there at sunrise as the low angled light picked out the mountains while leaving the low lying land in shadow.
An inversion layer was sitting over the peaks, shrouding them in mist which glowed in the early morning light and looked so much like a meringue topping on a key lime pie.
I knew I'd be shooting for a panoramic stitch, as the standard 3x2 35mm format just weasn't suitable for this scene, so I set up my tripod and camera exactly level and took 5 overlapping exposures, metering to avoid over exposing the brighest part of the scene.
I fed the resulting TIFF files into PhotoShop CS5, hit photomerge et voila, a rather nice panorama of the Clwydian range at sunrise, complete with meringue topping!
Filename - clwydian panorama 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 28mm
Exposure - 1/10sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Clwydian Range, North Wales
This image - 1200x384px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS5
Comments - Panorama stitched from separate overlapping exposures.
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