This was taken just after the Kansas State Wildcats defeated the Texas Longhorns to secure the Big 12 Football Championship. Fans (mostly the student section) rushed the field and although it probably wouldn’t have happened, the group of people wearing yellow jackets were stationed around the goal posts to protect them from being taken down. The reason I wasn’t down on the field was because I wasn’t able to get a press pass to shoot the game from the sidelines.
This panorama was processed using the same technique in the tutorial I wrote. If you haven’t yet, make sure to check it out. I’m quite surprised how well this image turned out. I was shooting in bracket mode, hand holding the camera (no tripod), had the ISO up to 1600 and people were moving all over the place, but there really isn’t any ghosting in the photos. Photomatix Pro does a really good job of removing it and aligning the source images. I used to use the Photomatix plugin for Aperture 3, but I stopped a few weeks ago and started using Photomatix Pro because the results are so much better. You can see the difference here. The only disadvantage to using Photomatix Pro is that I have to export the original files from Aperture and process them in Photomatix Pro and then import the results back into Aperture, but it’s worth the extra hassle.
Some details about this photo:
Camera: Pentax K-5
Lens: DA* 16-50
ISO: 1600
Focal Length: 16mm
Aperture: f/11
15 images stitched into a HDR Panorama using Photomatix Pro and Photoshop
Do you think this image is good enough to get into the student yearbook?
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