Todmorden Moor

Earlier in the month we paid a visit to Woodlands View Education near Todmorden. I took the opportunity to try a 360 degree view of the moor at the rear of Woodlands View:

Todmorden moor pano

This is a full 360degree view that includes the pylons and wind turbines. The photo is a composite of 120 images: 24 in the panoramic set each comprising of a 5 exposure HDR processed set.

This was a bit of a fight to get processed to a reasonable degree of success; there were two major problems: Ghosting of the wind turbine blades and the stitching of the cables between the pylons.

Straightforward processing of the in-camera jpgs was not successful. In the end the processing was this:

  • Convert the raw images to jpg (for reference) and 16bit-tiff for processing – include lens corrections.
  • HDRi process the 16-bit tiff images (sets of 5 exposures, 2 stops apart) to 16bit tiff images. I decided not to try and correct the ghosting of the turbine blades but leave them asis – the multi-point blades look quite good!
  • Stitch the tiff images together and save as 16bit tiff.
  • Edit this image in photoshop for exposure/contrast and a little patching of the mismatches in the cable stitching.

This was reasonably successful but I wasn’t happy with the problems with the cables and the editing of them wasn’t too great – this shows the problem:

showing stitching problem

Subsequently I decided to purchase the recent upgrade to the new version of the stitching software which gave better results:

correctly stitched

This error was corrected with the new software although there were still issues with the cables further along, although not as bad – these still needed a bit of patching in photoshop.

I have now put this image in the panorama gallery.

Author: Paul L.G. Morris

I am an amateur photographer whose photography is mostly of gardens, nature and the rural environment. My specialities are close-ups, panoramic views, or a combination of both that I call 'Nearscapes'. I work mostly for my own interest having closed my business PM Studios Ltd.