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Gran Canaria Panorama #2

Panoramic image looking over the interior of Gran Canaria from the Patrimonio Arquelogico Bentayga viewpoint, featuring the Roque Nublo and the village of Tejeda

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Right in the middle of the island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands there are two large volcanic rock formations that were marked as tourist attractions on the road map that Liz and I used during our holiday there.

The Rogue Bentayga and the Roque Nublo.

We visited them both during our stay, taking many, many photos of course!

One of the most impressive views we saw was this panorama, as viewed from the Patrimonio Arquelogico Bentayga at the base of Roque Bentayga and looking nominally south out over the town of Tejeda and with the impressive Roque Nublo punctuating the horizon in the far distance.

I went a little crazy shooting images here, as the sun was close to setting and the low angled light was picking out details and contours in the mountains that would have been washed out earlier in the day.

So I shot dozens of frames, both for later use in panoramic stitches such as this one, and as stand-alone images as well.

This particular panorama is made from twenty seven seperate exposures, giving me an absoloutely huge final image with an incredible level of detail that has to be seen to be believed.

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Image data

Filename - gran canaria panorama 02.jpg

Camera - Canon 6D

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 67mm

Exposure - 1/125 sec @ f11, ISO100

Location - Patrimonio Arquelogico Bentayga, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

This image - 1200x200px JPEG

Conversion - Adobe Lightroom and PhotoShop CC

Comments - Neutral density graduated filter used to balance exposure between sky and land