View from Bright Angel Lodge

A little on the small side to fully appreciate. For my taste, I prefer a natural sky rather than one that has been significantly darkened across the top. It would be really cool to see this full size given the number of pixels that you captured. The detail must be incredible.

Looks awesome from what I can see....but I wish it was larger to fully appreciate the details.

Here is a link to the original file:

Full Size Image

I did add some vignetting in HDR Effects, so that did darken the sky up.  Thanks for looking, I know that when you zoom in extremely tight, I found some ghosting, may need to play with that a bit yet.

Steven -- Good job for your first attempt at HDR Panorama. My only comment is that the upper portion of the sky seems really dark. Don't know if you intentionally applied a vignette or or maybe a graduated filter. You mentioned that you have some ghosting. If it is in the clouds that is difficult to avoid due to their movement. If it is in the stationary objects It is most likely due to not having your nodal point quite right.

Your processing flow will work OK for the small # of images (21) you had here. You may find that if you attempt greater numbers of images you will need to do the HDR processing first and then stitch the processed HDR images. Most of the HDR programs such as Nik's, Oloneo Photo Engine & etc. will choke on larger file sizes. I specialize in very large stitched panoramas many consisting of 100's of bracketed images. I use Oloneo Photo Engine for the HDR processing because it has a batch processing capability. I then stitch using Autopano Giga because Lightroom and/or Photoshop doesn't handle high numbers of images well, especially if there are multiple rows and columns.  

I am in the process of putting together a workshop on this very topic. While I haven't finalized it and made it live on my website, I have a draft online at http://www.abbascreationsphotography.com/Workshop.htm