Can you elaborate on how you got your eight images from a Zodiac, and how you stitched them? At least the first parts sounds like a story worth telling.
There wasn't any magic to it unfortunately
. We had motored from our ship around the edge of the large iceberg and were headed toward some smaller bergs and penguins. I happened to turn around and saw the ship emerging in the chasm and realised there was a great opportunity to show the scale of the ice, so asked the zodiac driver to stop. I then simply banged off eight frames with the idea I would stitch them later. All I did in post was take the first frame in Lightroom and set the exposure and black and white points, add 12 points of clarity and 12 points of vibrance. I then used the
match total exposures command across the remaining 7 frames. I then merged them to PS CC using the perspective option with remove geometric distortion selected. After the blend I sharpened it and that was it. I wish I could say this image was a result of hours of patience, but like many good photographs it was made almost subconsciously - as in I really didn't think too much about it at the time. What I personally find interesting is that I very rarely ever stitch images. There was something about this scene that intuitively drove me straight down that path.
