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Had a little fun with my panoramic head yesterday. I was worried that 28mm was to wide for image stitching. Did 3 rows of 5 images, standing in som decaying shrubs. (50% overlap). Took 1 hour in PS CS4 to do this on a 4 year old G5 iMac. Had the sun hitting the lens in the last image, and did a B&W convertion because of red & yellow artifacts (no pattern).

If my calculations are correct, this is the equivalent of an 11mm lens, or a Foveon sensor of 42X42mm!-)))

C&C?

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Free your mind, and your camera will follow...

 
Thanks for posting, great effort and time involved, I appreciate that aspect. I cannot comment on the technique as all I've 'stitched' is 5 matching photos. But my first thought... this seems rather wasted effort on a tangle of underbrush... can you leave the bushes next time and do a scenic panorama?
;-)

seriously, for viewing, it's rather dark on my monitor and all I see is the tangle of branches.
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SandyF said:
Thanks for posting, great effort and time involved, I appreciate that
aspect. I cannot comment on the technique as all I've 'stitched' is 5
matching photos. But my first thought... this seems rather wasted
effort on a tangle of underbrush... can you leave the bushes next
time and do a scenic panorama?
;-)
seriously, for viewing, it's rather dark on my monitor and all I see
is the tangle of branches.
Best regards, Sandy
[email protected]
http://www.pbase.com/sandyfleischman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandyfleischmann
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Well, tangle of branches is really my thing:-) (see these photomerges http://mortenoen.blogspot.com/ ) It's in the tradition of the New-Topography philosophy from the 70's (Lewis Baltz "San Quentin point" and Robert Adams, and the more recent works of Lee Friedlander).

I find scenic panoramas often wery boring;-) I like total chaos, as complicated as possible, in a man-altered landscape, like the above one from the middle of Oslo, Norway. A sky and a rock resembles too much oilpaintings of the 19th century with gestaltung theories. Chaos is (in my twisted head) more "photographic".

That aside, I think this was the perfect test target,to see how accurate the panoramic head was. And I have not found a single broken branch. Camera is 30 cm above the ground, and closest branch is only 40 cm away.

I like super wideangles, but not so much the distortion. In a merge this can be "edited".

I'm not excluding a scenic panorama in the future, but I have to find a complicated one:-)
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Free your mind, and your camera will follow...
 
NoRules said:
Well, tangle of branches is really my thing:-) (see these photomerges
http://mortenoen.blogspot.com/ ) It's in the tradition of the
New-Topography philosophy from the 70's (Lewis Baltz "San Quentin
point" and Robert Adams, and the more recent works of Lee
Friedlander).

I find scenic panoramas often wery boring;-) I like total chaos, as
complicated as possible, in a man-altered landscape, like the above
one from the middle of Oslo, Norway. A sky and a rock resembles too
much oilpaintings of the 19th century with gestaltung theories. Chaos
is (in my twisted head) more "photographic".

That aside, I think this was the perfect test target,to see how
accurate the panoramic head was. And I have not found a single broken
branch. Camera is 30 cm above the ground, and closest branch is only
40 cm away.

I like super wideangles, but not so much the distortion. In a merge
this can be "edited".

I'm not excluding a scenic panorama in the future, but I have to find
a complicated one:-)
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While I appreciate Sandy's aesthetic, I do have to differ with her in that I enjoy yours equally. It is a bit of a different perspective, if you will, on what constitutes "landscape". It certainly presents technical challenges!

I'm curious about what color artifacts you are referring to. Can you post and example? I would have been interesting in seeing this particular panorama realized in color.

Best Regards,
Bill C.
 
I think chaotic might be better than complicated as a descriptive.

Mike
NoRules said:
I'm not excluding a scenic panorama in the future, but I have to find
a complicated one:-)
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Free your mind, and your camera will follow...
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Here is the image of the sun color artifacts. I don't have the hole image in colors. Sorry. I have 20 more DP1 photomerges though:-) Chaotic of course:-P so I'll keep them for my self ...



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Free your mind, and your camera will follow...
 
This is a merge of 9 DP1 images...

I don't look at art photography as entertainment. I don't aim to please. I like to be anoying, to challenge the viewer, to take pictures where you don't see far, where you have to battle for everey inch you go deeper into the image. Now you can ask why. What is the point of getting entangled in a picture, and not beeing handled a vista on a silver plate?

Well, what can you find when all else is gone and you're utterly lost, other than yourself...

Easy I leave to others.



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Free your mind, and your camera will follow...
 
I really like these images. Very interesting. I agree with your choice of B&W for these; color would probably detract from these.

On the technical side I'm really surprised that you could merge 28mm photos of branches - even with a panorama head - without breaks in the branch lines.

Thank you for posting these.

Do you have any of these merged images showing a more pronounced 3D effect of the branches? I mean the type of images which seem to need just the right amount of direct sunlight in the photo to allow that "special" 3D look.
 
I'm surprised by some of the reactions here to this fascinating photo. Whether or not it fits your personal aesthetic, it is technically challenging shot using a difficult technique. And, for the most part, it works pretty well.

No, it isn't a pretty landscape.
It isn't a Fab Foveon portrait.

It is far from a well done street shot, urban landscape, or architectural survey.

But as the photographer states, it challenges you. There is no comfortable golden spiral or rule of thirds to anchor to. Depth of field is challenged by physical barriers instead of optical ones. Your eye goes crazy trying to pull in all the detail. I love it!

A couple of things for me personally (but then the photo wasn't just for me, as I didn't make it):
  • a bit too contrasty for my taste, I would like to see some more subtle tones in this as a b/w realization of the scene
  • color artifacts aside, these types of photos (an issue of Blind Spot had some work of a similar vein a year or so ago) suite my eye better as color shots (even if that color is pushed, pulled, or twisted)
  • the bright sun is too dominant in the frame, constantly pulling your eye from other parts of the panorama
Otherwise, I did enjoy this. The second shot doesn't quite do the same for me. Rick's Dead Trees I had looked at before, but he is going for something different there (enjoyable in its own right though).

Keep up your work. I like your vision and it would be an interesting portfolio should you continue to explore this dimension of your photography over time. And please do share again, we all need to be challenged sometimes.

In fact, I haven't seen a good lawnchair shot in a long while...
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-BC
 
... for kind and inspiring words, Bill. Your own images reminds me of William Eggleston in the 70's; easy to overlook, but with a distinct nerve once you give them time:-)

Regarding the "3D look", this is missing in the pictures because they are so down-scaled (fine detail is "melted away"). In 100cm x 100cm prints it's there, because I develop from Raw in native size. You are talking IQ beyond Hasselblad here:-) The images represent what a Foveon at native 28MP resolution would look like ... So for those who can't wait, buy a panoramic head for your tripod;-)

Regarding branches: I have spent the last 10 years photographing a 500 meter strip of the Alna River. Allthough it lies in the most heavily populated area in the capital of Norway, I hardly ever see any people here. The only signs of human is the trash carried by the river, tangled and twisted and unrecognisable. It's a place everybody has forgotten. In the hills sourrounding the place there are endless blocks of flats. Sometimes you kan see them through the brances of my really big prints.

Here is a picture I did 10 years ago with my Rolleiflex. The river is in the little, dark forrest in the top middle.



Perhaps you'll find this one interesting. The last I'll post for now. Again 15 images in the merge. The forground is out of focus on purpose as a part of my experimentation. It's called "Gateway No.002". Not a very cheerful image this either:-)

As Tony Roma said to my mentor Dag Alveng; Take pictures of your back yard or neighbourhood, and if you never stop, something interresting will come out of it."

Thanks all for very interresting points of view indeed!

Take care!



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Free your mind, and your camera will follow...
 
I like first image (Near Alna River Oslo) very much!

And I like composition of last image, but for my taste it is somewhat gray (flat). I hope you don't mind if I put up little mod of it - made it almost low-key:



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Arvo
 
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