Cairngorm National Park, Inverness-Shire, Scotland

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Portfolio 2007

(Cairngorm National Park, Inverness-Shire, Scotland, 2006)

8th May 2006

This is something of a work in progress and is taking some suffering! I waited four hours on a freezing summit (with my dog Benji wrapped in my down jacket so he wouldn’t be cold) for the light to be this good. An hour descending through the woods in pitch black, which was pretty scary. And it has taken about two months to get the image to this stage - at about 500MB everything takes a while to experiment with. Anyway, there are 13 images stitched (there are actually about 23 images that I took, but it is too much, the light had changed too much from the first exposure to the last and the panorama has a quite unattractive aspect ratio), to produce a file that will print at ... 1.5m wide. Anyway, enough bluster, I hope you all enjoy the image.

Technical details

Nikon D2X, Manfrotto 303SPH panoramic head, 28-105mm lens, 15 frames stitched with PTAssembler.

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