Multnomah Triptych

[AlanLichty]

A couple of weeks ago I was shooting ephemeral waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge and recorded a panorama sequence of Multnomah Falls that was a bit over the top. This is a stitch of 65 separate telephoto captures (13 frames with a 5 shot burst for each) covering Multnomah Falls from top to bottom. Interesting exercise but entirely impractical to display as an image at 3631x7100 pixels. It makes a ribbon that doesn't translate well to a computer monitor so I carved it up into 3 vertical panels to make a vertical triptych.

C&C always welcome.

 

[ckcarr]

Is that your house?

 

[Ben Egbert]

That’s interesting to see I this sequence

 

[AlanLichty]

Is that your house?

Not sure I would want to live there on a crowded weekend - that place is worse than downtown Moab during the Jeep Jamboree

 

[AlanLichty]

That’s interesting to see I this sequence

Thanks Ben - I decided to post it this way so you can actually see the details.

 

[MonikaC]

A triptych works well for this application. I bet some of the astro guys would not think that merging that many frames is any big deal, though!

 

[AlanLichty]

A triptych works well for this application. I bet some of the astro guys would not think that merging that many frames is any big deal, though!

Thanks Monika - yeah this probably isn't even a downpayment for astro type imagery. They have the advantage that all of their images are of the same spot. My problem lies in the fact that my tele lens on the drone doesn't do programmed panoramas and I have to guess at lining up the shots to make the stitch work. I'd love to be able to tell the controller I want a 3x6 set of frames with a specific spot as the upper left corner and have it do 5 shot bursts for each pano frame.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Interesting way to display a vertical pano. Like your results. I am pretty sure future drones will be able to automate this sequence.

 

[AlanLichty]

Interesting way to display a vertical pano. Like your results. I am pretty sure future drones will be able to automate this sequence.

Thanks Jameel - I hope they do or at least release a SDK so some third party controller software will let me automate the task. I have another pano from last week that is well over 27 frames (each a burst of 5) that looks nice in preliminary processing but was a pain to shoot.

 

[Peter Michal]

A couple of weeks ago I was shooting ephemeral waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge and recorded a panorama sequence of Multnomah Falls that was a bit over the top. This is a stitch of 65 separate telephoto captures (13 frames with a 5 shot burst for each) covering Multnomah Falls from top to bottom. Interesting exercise but entirely impractical to display as an image at 3631x7100 pixels. It makes a ribbon that doesn't translate well to a computer monitor so I carved it up into 3 vertical panels to make a vertical triptych.

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C&C always welcome.

Beautiful vertical panorama, Alan, excellent resolution and processing of this waterfall. Nice work.

 

[AlanLichty]

Beautiful vertical panorama, Alan, excellent resolution and processing of this waterfall. Nice work.

Thanks Peter!

 

[Ha Pham]

Impressive, Alan.

 

[AlanLichty]

Impressive, Alan.

Thanks Ha!

 

[JimFox]

Great idea Alan! I am so used to Triptych's going horizontal, that when I started to scroll I was wondering what happened to the rest of it. So vertical is a great way to do this, different but very cool.

 

[AlanLichty]

Great idea Alan! I am so used to Triptych's going horizontal, that when I started to scroll I was wondering what happened to the rest of it. So vertical is a great way to do this, different but very cool.

Thanks Jim - I am also used to horizontal triptychs but this panorama seemed downright awkward as a single image and if I made it fit the screen all the details were gone so I just did a quick hack to cut it into pieces. From the burnt slopes above the falls at the top to the bottom is over 700'.

This does show just how close the Eagle Creek fire came to the falls and the lodge. There are some burnt trees in the bottom frame just above the lodge.

 

[MonikaC]

Thanks Monika - yeah this probably isn't even a downpayment for astro type imagery. They have the advantage that all of their images are of the same spot. My problem lies in the fact that my tele lens on the drone doesn't do programmed panoramas and I have to guess at lining up the shots to make the stitch work. I'd love to be able to tell the controller I want a 3x6 set of frames with a specific spot as the upper left corner and have it do 5 shot bursts for each pano frame.

Someday, maybe in the not too distant future!

 

[larryj]

A couple of weeks ago I was shooting ephemeral waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge and recorded a panorama sequence of Multnomah Falls that was a bit over the top. This is a stitch of 65 separate telephoto captures (13 frames with a 5 shot burst for each) covering Multnomah Falls from top to bottom. Interesting exercise but entirely impractical to display as an image at 3631x7100 pixels. It makes a ribbon that doesn't translate well to a computer monitor so I carved it up into 3 vertical panels to make a vertical triptych.

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C&C always welcome.

A great shot Alan and makes me want to get a drone. My wife and I were at the bottom of that falls 2020 and were shooting up from the bottom of the falls and were not happy with the results. Big envy on your shot!
Larry

 

[AlanLichty]

A great shot Alan and makes me want to get a drone. My wife and I were at the bottom of that falls 2020 and were shooting up from the bottom of the falls and were not happy with the results. Big envy on your shot!
Larry

Thanks Larry - I hear you on the view from below and I have shot it many many times since these falls are just over a 1/2 hour drive from my house. I shot this from out over the Columbia River using a 162mm tele lens on my drone. All of the area within the scene itself is in a No-Fly zone.