Beauty of the dolomites - Sunset panorama with Schusterplatte, Toblinger Knoten, Paternkofel and Drei Zinnen NΒ°3 par Bernhard Thum Via FlickrΒ : Here comes a superwide panorama from the series of the earlier shots of an evening near Toblinger Knoten, dolomites. There was still some light of the evening sun at the foreground covered with thousands of stones. View goes from left to right from Schusterplatte over Toblinger Knoten and Sextener Stein further to Paternkofel and Drei Zinnen. I merged 8 single shots taken from the tripod after careful adjustments of the raw files in Lightroom using cylindrical projection and added an individually created gradation curve via a layer in pho-toshop to get the colours of the midtones shining a bit brighter. I was working with the 50 mm lens at the Hasselblad H6D-100 which is corresponding to 32 mm for 24x36. Ratio of the panorama is about 4,6:1, still a bit more than the classical 24x6 panorama format that can be realized with roll film. There was a time when I thought about taking a Linhof 6x17 for panoramas. The advantage should be that you can see the entire frame on the ground glass during composition. In my experi-ence I can imagine the frame well enough in my head when Iβm looking through a normal viewfinder and move it through the scene. Using a panorama plate makes it even more precise and the huge advantage is that you can always change the ratio of the panorama as you prefer it for a given subject.
