Silver Lake sunset
I have been having quite a lot of problems recently with my low light panorama's. My dedicated panorama program kept giving me weird impossible to correct color shifts and banding. No matter how I exposed the shots in my camera. Photoshop had no such problem. However it's built in panoramic program has enormous problems trying to stitch together scenes with lots of tiny little objects in them - trees for instance which have thousands of branches, and hundreds of thousands of leaves. Worse if the lighting isn't good.
So I had several trips to nice sunrise and sunset locations fall by the waste side as I couldn't edit any of them. And I started to just capture citiscape panorama's for now, as Photoshop can handle those easily, as they always have building in them that possess obvious geometric shapes that it can easily stitch together.
Then a little while ago I tried something new in Auto-Pano, my professional panoramic program on this shot, and it almost worked. But I still got bad color casts on the far edges. But it's still progress. Then just for the heck of it I tried stitching it in Photoshop guessing it could never stitch together a scene with all those little trees in the background shrouded in darkness. But lo and behold it did. And despite the tough low light exposure Photoshop exposed it like a champ. And the wonderful spring scene from our local water reservoir came to life.
