The Fix 12: Rainy Day at Bruarfoss
Focus of Episode: Stitching Panoramas in Photoshop
In this episode of The FIX, I show you the editing behind a shot that was posted as Photo of the Week on January 1, called Rainy Day at Bruarfoss. I took the photo in the summer of 2016 on a trip to Iceland with a friend of mine, Ryan.
Our trip to Iceland seemed to consist of tracking down one waterfall after another but in a place like this, nothing ever looks the same. Waterfall after waterfall and they are all completely unique and like nothing else you’ve ever seem before. From water pouring over volcanic basalt columns, to huge towering sheets of water pouring into a deep canyon to twin waterfalls pouring hundreds of meters side by side like columns, every waterfall in Iceland is its own beast.
Bruarfoss in particular was espcially unique because it had a deep cut down the centre that the water poured into, and on either wide were streamy stairs that the water cascaded down. The water seemed to be rich in glacial sediments because where the water was deep it carried a bright blue colour like blue raspberry Kool-Aid.
It was pouring rain when we were at Bruarfoss, but luckily with some covers of the cameras and long exposures to blur out the rain, we were able to carry on taking pictures.
A few specific things that you will learn in this episode of the Fix are:
– How to stitch photos into a panorama in Photoshop
– How to use the clone stamp tool and content aware fill in Photoshop
– How to perform a final edit with Lightroom
This photo is merged from several photos that I took from left to right in a sweeping motion. They were each overlapped by a small amount and then stitched together in Photoshop. You can do this in Lightroom as well, but in this particular case I wanted to be able to fill in the missing spots of the photo within Photoshop. This is done using both the clone stamp tool and content aware fill. Both are super easy to use and I show you how in this episode. I then move the file from Photoshop back into Lightroom and finish the editing in Lightroom using a basic edit.
