Lake Luzern

[John Holland]

A view of Lake Luzern near the southern end (the town on the right side is Brunnen) from Fronalpstock. Getting there involved a train ride, a bus ride, a funicular ride, and two ski lifts! Getting back similar process: two ski lifts, a cable car, a bus ride, and then a boat ride (we took a different route).

(a 12 image pano)

After enjoying the lake view we took off on our hike - we headed to the near-distant peak (not as close as it looks)

(a 23 image pano)

 

[Pete Askew]

What, no hang glider?!!

Gorgeous stuff, John.

 

[John Holland]

No hang gliders (that's yesterday's thrill); we did see a lot of para-gliders using the ski lifts to get to the top of the mountains and then launching themselves into the air. It looks like a lot of fun, but I did not try it.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Two excellent images.

What did you use to stitch the pano?

 

[John Holland]

Thank you Milan. I load all the images into Photoshop Raw editor and allow it to crunch it into a pano. Sometimes this approach does not work (or I do not like the result), so I try going through Photoshop to merge and blend the images. Even that approach sometimes fails me, so it is then a last attempt via hand placement and masking (a long tedious process). I have found that with sufficient overlap, my first approach has a high degree of success.

 

[Dave Farnes]

Another pair of beautiful images, what amazing views.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Thanks John. I have tended to use Lightroom's merge to pano which has been OK but on occaisions has glitches.