Painted Desert- Petrified Forest National Park – Panorama

The image here is of the Painted Desert in the Petrified Forest National Park in northeast Arizona. It is very difficult to capture the wide open spaces of the American West with a camera. One way to overcome this is to shoot a panorama, taking multiple exposures and then combining them in software. This used to be a very time consuming and tedious process taking special equipment to make the images line up. Using new software, making panoramas is just a simple matter of taking multiple shots, overlapping the edges by about 25% and then let the software do it’s magic. This image is made of 27 individual shots taken in a portrait orientation and then combined in Photoshop CS3.

Click on the image for a large view (it may take a while to load!). If the image fits in your browser window, click on it to make it full size, you can then scroll left and right to view the full image. This image has been reduced to about 1/8 th of the original size for the web. The full size image is 36,100 x 4496 pixels making it a 162 megapixle image.

Can you find the people in the image?

All the information in this post was believed to be accurate at the time it was published. Please be sure to double check with the location before relying on this information as everything changes over time, especially hours, prices, and whether the location is still open.

Great Places for Great Photos

Let me help you to find a great location for your next photography adventure. I will list many lesser-known destinations, as well as the famous "Icon Locations" for photography. I will provide photos (Lots of Photos), location information, consisting of what there is to photograph as well as other information about the destination. I will give costs, maps, directions, contact information, and other essential information for a successful photo trip. I will only post for locations that I have personally photographed to ensure a quality guide to great locations for photography. If you know of great places that are not posted, please send me the details, I may just decide that is a place I need to go!

Greg Disch is a freelance photographer located in Arkansas. Greg specializes in nature, scenic, wildlife, and other outdoor subjects in Arkansas and other areas of the country. Most of the images on this site are available for sale as prints, personal use, or rights managed stock photos.

Greg offers both classroom instruction and in the field hands on photographic workshops. Classroom sessions are normally held in Fort Smith Arkansas, but arrangements can be made to bring a class to your group.

All classes and workshops have small class sizes designed to provide an optimum student to instructor ratio, where you can get the personal attention, you need. Most classes and workshops are limited to a maximum of six participants and will be held with a minimum of only two.

If you are looking for a wonderful opportunity to get personal individual instruction, I do private workshops and classes at a location of your choice, whether doing a location photo shoot, coming to your home or business, traveling across the country on a road trip, or at my classroom. This is a fantastic way to learn digital workflow and be sure that your computer equipment is properly configured for optimum performance.