Alpen-Panoramen, Panorama der Alpen

In the weekend I made the experiment to pack 2.9 kg of Nikon gear and 2.3 kg of Manfrotto tripod (a 190 model which should be very old, I argue, since I used it in the early 1990s...) on the bicycle and to go for Cimadasta, the summit that stands north of my valley, surrounded by the half-circle of the Lagorai group.

I slept few meters below the summit in the Bivacco Cavinato, tying to make the most of the Manfrotto load. I was lucky to have with me a sleeping bag, since the old blankets that used to be there had been removed one week before by the team who had installed a brand new cross on the top.

Short before sunrise I shot this series of eight photos, 70mm (x1.5), 2 sec, f/18, each one bracketed with +/-1 EV. Now I used it to try out Hugin's fusion capabilities, with the result shown here. To be honest, I wanted also to compare Hugin with Ptgui but - surprisingly enough - the latter (version 9.1) was able to spot only a little handful of control points. Likewise miserable were my first trials with Lightroom and Photoshop, which clearly deserve a much more patient learning, such that at the end I turned to the old companion Gimp. I am not in despair, however - if the autumn goes on this way, I should have some other learning opportunities!

Larger: https://bit.ly/2zY8Jhx
Position: 46.1767 11.6054