Le Banneret Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

The "Le Banneret" statue is a popular photo op for tourists visiting Neuchatel, Switzerland. Normally tourists take a picture looking up at the statue. But not far away is a set of steps that offers a better point of view with a little help from a telephoto lens.

This image is a "panorama" composed of 3 seperate images stitched together with AutoPano Pro. The original image is 10'6000 x 2660 pixels. A layer mask was created for the statue and then the background was blurred to highlight the statue.

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ryo (13) 2008-05-31 7:12

Hi again!

I like the idea, and have used the very same stairs oncelast year during a "micro TE meet" with cbrman and gramma.

The exposure is spot on, and I like the vertical format, although some may say you went to an extreme. My only nits are that the blurring of the background may look a bit overdone, and that you haven't waited for the man from the print shop to move his Focus C-Max...