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Last week, I showed a panorama of a few bergs in SE Alaska. Interestingly, as I was shooting the bergs someone shot me. This image gives you an idea of getting low. Sometimes to get a different angle you might need to get a little bit wet, muddy, dirty, cold, etc.
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4-shot stitched panorama,
In port for a day before departing again for more eagles, whales, bears, glaciers, and fun. Rick Sammon and I along with the cruise participants had a tremendous experience and I cannot wait to share some of the images we made. Marc Muench joined me in Petersburg for this next cruise and I am sure we will have another incredible trip.
A technique I used often during the trip was to get low. The image above is a four shot stitched panorama shot from a RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) slowly moving through the water. To make this shot more dramatic I placed the camera about an inch above the water and shot. Since pixels are more or less free, experiment with different approaches and angles to your photography. Some will work and others not so much, just part of the process.
Even though the image had tremendous color I thought I might try a black and white also. It is great having options and experimenting with both capture and your post processing. Continuing along that process, the image below is the combination of the color version and the black and white version's luminance values.
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Still 1/2 mile from the glacier face!
I was putting together a new PDF for our upcoming Alaska cruises and came across this image. The staff had never seen it and thought it was pretty cool.
I took the shot from a small zodiac-like boat as I headed to shore for some different vantage points. The shot below is a quick pano I took from the bluffs overlooking this glacier and fjord. I am sometimes prone to hyperbole but this experience was life changing.
The yacht isn't even in the image.
It seems as the boat is right next to the glacier in the background but is, in fact, about 1/2 mile away. The face of the glacier is over 500', just an unbelievable scale up there. As you might expect it is not at all safe to get any closer to the face. There are huge calving events and also ice launching up from the depths as well. We normally only think about the glacier calving above the water but it also splits below the water line. When the submerged ice breaks free it shoots to the surface and sometimes launches airborne.
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