Originally I had mislabeled this as from Mesa Verde (that Southwest just all looks the same! – not!), and then looked again. That is one of the troubles with film . . . you have to use your memory – not your memory card – to recall where you were.
This is a small panorama using Kodak Ektar 100 and the Olympus XA4 point-n-shoot. And, it is the Grand Canyon with a snaking view of the Colorado far below and beyond.
Digital allows you to use the proverbial scattergun approach to imaging for a panorama . . . film requires a bit more thought through the viewfinder. Parts you think you have disappear, and you don’t know until you have left the place. Sometimes CS6 can fill in the gaps and other times you just have to crop, even if you have a different vision. Ah, well. Here, though, I was pretty pleased, though not perfectly pleased, with the results.
Panoramas allow me to capture the grandeur the vast outdoors has . . .
There are a number of different programs which do panos, one being a leap from Lightroom to the pano functions of Photoshop, MS ICE (image composition editor), and so on.
Most people do panos in digital. I like to do it with film, too, as it is a bit of a challenge – and it requires a bit of thought . . . after all, there is only so much film, far less than the room on an SD card!
And here we are: A 5-image pano of the poppy fields at the California Poppy Reserve last March, in the 50mph winds. The middle of the image doesn’t look too bad when smallish, but if you click on it twice, you will see a lot of blur in the center. Not a fab job, but the job it does is there – it shows you the stunning beauty of the fields. With less wind, the picture would have been a lot more successful.
This is a doozy of a pano – about 40 – taken with the Df and the 70-300 Tamron. I used MS’s Image Composition Editor. It does a really good job, much faster the Photoshop. Click on the image a couple of times to see the detail and size of this picture – and I reduced it substantially from the original pano!
This particular bench is a favorite of mine, both to photograph and to plop down upon to survey the world around me.
I was caught by the abundance of green and yellow . . . this is a panorama which I think could be done better by focusing on the flowers and using a smaller aperture to create a better DOF.
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