Night panoramas

Earthworks, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Pond, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Today Panasonic released firmware version 1.1 for the LX3. I installed it at once, and had then of course to test it. Although it was late, I went for a walk in the dark (except for the lights provided by mankind). Here are two panoramas, both stitched from three LX3 photos.

First one shows a construction site where the work was paused for the night. I lightened the foreground a bit in LightZone.

The second one shows some of the colours visible in the thin cloud cover over the city. The colors are quite near to how the eye saw them. I didn't do any postprocessing in LightZone for this one.