7/4/2010 weekly landscape show & tell

Looks great on my monitor. And shot at 16mm, sunset must have been spectacular.

Nice job - Bill

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Ben - thanks for your reply - I guess I was just interested to hear your thoughts on composition - because I find myself constantly cropping images to "comply" with rule of thirds. or to put main focus subject off centre. Sometimes I can see why, other times I think my first instinct for the shot was better. Perhaps it just confirms that sometimes rules were made to be broken. Whatever, I always enjoy your images, and find the weekly landscape thread a source of inspiration. I live in the UK, Shropshire, which is a beautiful county, fanstastic landscapes/scenery, but the gentle rolling hillside, farmland type. Beautiful as that is, I think it needs a building/tree/rocks - just something to draw you in - I haven't got it good enough yet, lack of "eye", skill level - something, but I am enjoying trying anyway.

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jayboo said:

Ben - thanks for your reply - I guess I was just interested to hear your thoughts on composition - because I find myself constantly cropping images to "comply" with rule of thirds. or to put main focus subject off centre. Sometimes I can see why, other times I think my first instinct for the shot was better. Perhaps it just confirms that sometimes rules were made to be broken. Whatever, I always enjoy your images, and find the weekly landscape thread a source of inspiration. I live in the UK, Shropshire, which is a beautiful county, fanstastic landscapes/scenery, but the gentle rolling hillside, farmland type. Beautiful as that is, I think it needs a building/tree/rocks - just something to draw you in - I haven't got it good enough yet, lack of "eye", skill level - something, but I am enjoying trying anyway.

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I am a retired mechanical engineer who used to make drawings that were perfectly centered and all things are symmetrical. Old habits are hard to break. I have said I am more technician than artist. I am not selling or showing my stuff so I have nobody to please but myself.

When I read about using vignetting to draw in the eye I get sort of sick. Vignetting is evil. I guess I want to present what was there as vividly as possible and allow the viewer to choose what to look at.

As far as adding a subject to a pastoral scene, how about an old tree or rock or flower or even and old building or fence. I do this myself and in these cases I do use corners and diagonals.

Lizzie lives in that part of the world and does fantastic work. Check out some of her posts.

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Not a lot of detail to comment on but you did get some nice color.

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What do you guys think of this picture? It was sunset and i thought i'd go take pictures, and came out with a bunch, this being my favorite.Taken at iso 100, f4.8 and 1/30 of a second.

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Just read your last post describing how you shot this. Although the subject matter would have slightly more interest to New Yorkers, it's an impressive shot technically. I peeked at your website and saw that many of your panoramas look pretty straight/linear. This image seems to have a reversed fisheye look. Maybe because you are so close to the subject. I've never shot a pano so I am not familiar with all of the effects possible.

Joergen Geerds said:

full blog post at http://newyorkpanorama.com/2010/06/09/astoria-pool/
C&C welcome

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Wow it is wide!!! But I do like the effect. And the light simply rocks.

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Nice colors.

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Rick Knepper said:

Just read your last post describing how you shot this. Although the subject matter would have slightly more interest to New Yorkers, it's an impressive shot technically. I peeked at your website and saw that many of your panoramas look pretty straight/linear. This image seems to have a reversed fisheye look. Maybe because you are so close to the subject. I've never shot a pano so I am not familiar with all of the effects possible.

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Thanks so much for the feedback. You are probably right, I should have maybe picked a more "landscape" looking shot as a starter, to fit better into the theme of the thread. Yes, it is a bit NY-centric. My goal with my photos is to downplay the technical aspect, and hide the fact that it is a panorama with an impossible lens as much as possible. I try to focus more on the image, and wanted to see if this one is actually working. If it's only impressing technically, then it's not working as an image... and such feedback is important.

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Joergen Geerds said:

Rick Knepper said:

Just read your last post describing how you shot this. Although the subject matter would have slightly more interest to New Yorkers, it's an impressive shot technically. I peeked at your website and saw that many of your panoramas look pretty straight/linear. This image seems to have a reversed fisheye look. Maybe because you are so close to the subject. I've never shot a pano so I am not familiar with all of the effects possible.

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Thanks so much for the feedback. You are probably right, I should have maybe picked a more "landscape" looking shot as a starter, to fit better into the theme of the thread. Yes, it is a bit NY-centric. My goal with my photos is to downplay the technical aspect, and hide the fact that it is a panorama with an impossible lens as much as possible. I try to focus more on the image, and wanted to see if this one is actually working. If it's only impressing technically, then it's not working as an image... and such feedback is important.

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Cityscapes are fine as we state in the opening post. Not everyone has interest in them so you may get fewer comments however.

I looked at this as was unable to think of a comment. A major problem with stitched images on the web is that the great detail provided is not possible to appreciate. This is even true for a 21mpix single image. The skill at stitching can be determined if it can't be observed but otherwise it is lost.

It looks like you handled the exposure and capture and post processing very well. I guess I was not very interested in the subject itself. A matter of taste.

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Adding to what Ben said about attracting comments, the very best time to post is on Sunday when the hosts, Ben or I post the new thread or on Monday maybe. Folks will comment on images already posted when they come to post theirs. By the end of the week, most folks have posted their weekly contribution & commented on whatever images were in the thread at the time they came by. By Saturday, commentary is usually left to the hosts.

We have quite a few stitchers so I hope you read this and post your next image in the new Weekly Landscape Thread today.

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