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Bifurcator wrote:
Yep, I wondered if anyone was going to call me on that. Both those last ones are. The Willow one is 210 shots and the Island one is 120 cropped down to about 60 or 80. I was trying to go for that BG/Subject separation like you achieved. I think I failed BTW... What, I need a much smaller subject or something? Also which stitcher are you using? APG isn't so hot for trees it seems.
Now that I look closer, I see it in both of them. I love the subtle LF-like rendering that this technique yield. 210 is just nuts, you are even crazier than I am  What sort of capture parameters (focal length, aperture, distance, effective focal length)?
I am not sure why these are so subtle, compared to some others. I skipped the island one a little quickly the first time I looked at it, undeservedly. Possibly because I thought the WB was a bit purplish, and the unsharp leaf region in the top right bothered the composition a bit. It is really quite gorgeous though (and the filtered version is very neat too). Perhaps a step to the left, or a lower position, would make it feel a bit more intimate? I don't suppose you can go closer?
The tree looks a little fake somehow, but I am not familiar with the flora of Japan, so maybe it looks very realistic? The luminescent green combined with the darker tone of the image perhaps? If I had to be critical, I find the tree a little too far away, and the bridge too dominant, considering it is just a plain modern-looking bridge of sorts. With something smaller and more delicate in the foreground, and the tree closer and more dominant, it might feel more right? I might also clone the bicycle and lamp post, which detract a bit from the right-hand side. If you want to keep the bridge, I might step back and use a larger focal length, to compress it a bit, or step forward and leave out the left post, which is rather dominant, yet blurry. Perhaps the same tree, shot from somewhere to the right of the bridge, might be an interesting composition?
In both of them, slightly less depth of field would help, I think.
Anyway, those are just my quick thoughts, feel free to disagree
Edited on Oct 04, 2011 at 01:30 PM · View previous versions
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