Brent Lossing

Beautifully done!

Thanks for this.  Have you tried the Panasonic out in the rain?  I have used Oly weather sealing going back to the FT designs and trust it.  I have not used any Panny lenses w/ weather sealing.  ...

Smart purchase - he is lucky to have you as a friend to guide him.  Judging by your write up you are an ideal person to ask for help :)

make sure there is at least one weather sealed option (camera plus lens).  I have found for outdoor stuff it is nice to be out shooting when the weather is not so nice.  The 12-50 is a good ...

The flowers almost glow with their own light!

All nice, but this is amazing!

Well - moving the sensor up and down and increasing the sensor size and moving the focus area within it should have the same effect... oh... I see where my thinking is not correct - the moving ...

What you are saying makes sense if the width boundary of the focus area = width of the sensor.  However, If the  sensor area is larger than the focus area you can compensate horizontally as well ...

instead of shifting the sensor, they just made the sensor larger.  Now they just shift the sensor columns and rows in the array. Everyone else gets a guess - I thought I would throw one in.

I would suggest experimenting and trying to get something unique as well as the tripod shots.  A telephoto handheld in bulb mode is fun :)

How many rows are you doing? I have not had problems with ICE, LR or PS. But I only do single rows. If you are doing multiple rows, I might suggest shooting just a single vertical column with ...

ICE does stitch my ORFs from EM5 (original).  I think they stopped dev on ICE in 2015 so probably newer cameras do not work.

These are beautiful - the snow adds a wonderful extra dimension to the shots.

the DNG converter actually will stop working correctly after a while. I have tried running my Olympus RAW files thru the latest generator to get them to work with CS4. I put the dng rev back to...

I am also looking for a wide prime for landscape.  I am considering the oly 12mm and the Samyang/Rokinon. The oly is about half the weight w/ autofocus.  The Samyang is about half the price. I have ...

Auto ISO? left is darker as well. Edit.... duh!  2014!!

I do something like that about once a year.  Sometimes it works - sometimes it just looks blotchy.  Overall I do not enough enjoyment to do it all the time.  You do nice work - now that you know ...

Andrew - just beautifully done! brent

to de-clutter the background, I made two layers, one with the flower tones and one with the background barely showing (I thought to give it some depth).  I think it would have worked better to ...

the PP works really well.  Consider a square crop - taken off the right side?