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JaneG
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Suilven, the beautiful mountain

HI All,

Suilven is in Assynt, North West Scotland.

A 6 mile extremely rough, boggy walk in to start the ascent up this relatively small but beautiful mountain, It has an amazing aspect, standing proud and alone which allows you to admire the landscape of Asynnt in all its glory. I left the DSLR at home and used my iphone as the day was hard enough getting up there with a torn ACL. Managed fine with a good knee brace but the bog does try and separate your leg bones without a good tendon to hold the joint together. Damn why did I do Zumba. Got to get it fixed nxt year.

iphone6 pano, processed in Silver EFEX. You can see the pixels in the sky suffering from the processing as you don't have the same quality of pixels provided by my DLSR, but I am happy enough. I have just printed it 1 metre long and the quality is sufficient, if this had been a DSLR production it would have managed 3 metres plus. I am now using a tripod adaptor for the iphone pano and the results are better.

I'm waiting for the day the DSLRs can do the continuous pano technology provided in iphone.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/JaneGoodall/Suilven%20blurrd%20sky%201000pix_zps0adfd54b.jpg

Jane

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Aug 30, 2015 at 09:33 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Suilven, the beautiful mountain

Hi Jane!
Very dramatic landscape. Is that rain falling from the left skies clouds? For me the crop might be a tad tight with such a dramatic clouded sky. But the image is very mysterious indeed...
Dan

Aug 30, 2015 at 10:00 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Suilven, the beautiful mountain

HI Dan

Thanks. its not a crop, this is a pano using continuous capture on the iphone , held in portrait position

Aug 30, 2015 at 10:09 AM

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JaneG wrote:
HI Dan

Thanks. its not a crop, this is a pano using continuous capture on the iphone , held in portrait position

Hi Jane!
I agree with Dan...crop or pano..not much room to view and are those artifacts falling from the sky or rain??
Patrick

Sony has a camera that does continous pano...I believe..

Aug 31, 2015 at 08:49 AM

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if you read my post ...
iphone6 pano, processed in Silver EFEX. You can see the pixels in the sky suffering from the processing as you don't have the same quality of pixels provided by my DLSR, Ive now fixed it for printing with some additional healing and blurring the pixels

have to disagree with you on the room for sky.. but thanks for your take on it

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Aug 31, 2015 at 08:55 AM

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JaneG wrote:
I'm waiting for the day the DSLRs can do the continuous pano technology provided in iphone.

I would be willing to bet that is not a priority for DSLR makers, at least high end DSLR cameras. I just don't think the quality would be there for most landscape photographers and I also think the options for shooting in that mode would be too limiting for most landscape photographers.

Most landscape photographers want very high resolution photos, they use tripods, often times longer exposures, and higher f-stops. I can see some sort of in camera stitching, but I think the serious people will still do their own editing in Photoshop and not use any "pano technology". Its similar to the in camera HDR, I don't know any serious landscape photographers that use it as their finished product.

Aug 31, 2015 at 09:00 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Suilven, the beautiful mountain

technology advances and I think this is something that can be achieved easily in the near future, photography as we know it, will be changing radically..

'serious' or not...technical limitations will cease and then the only limitation will be the eye of the photographer..

stitching with fast moving cloud is not really possible. It takes a long time to do my panos on the DSLR adn by then the clouds have moved..one alternative is to go large format and crop.

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Aug 31, 2015 at 09:04 AM

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JaneG wrote:
if you read my post ...
iphone6 pano, processed in Silver EFEX. You can see the pixels in the sky suffering from the processing as you don't have the same quality of pixels provided by my DLSR, Ive now fixed it for printing with some additional healing and blurring the pixels

have to disagree with you on the room for sky.. but thanks for your take on it

I read your post and my statement still stands...it is too tight IMO, iphone or not....and the pixels can be fixed better in various post processing programs...but as long as you are satisfied..I am also.
Patrick

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Aug 31, 2015 at 09:06 AM

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thats fine by me, you are very welcome

Aug 31, 2015 at 09:07 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Suilven, the beautiful mountain

well thats a relief

Aug 31, 2015 at 09:13 AM

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PatrickDixon10 wrote:
Hi Jane!
I agree with Dan...crop or pano..not much room to view and are those artifacts falling from the sky or rain??
Patrick

Sony has a camera that does continous pano...I believe..

FYI Jane,
Sony DSC-HX1 is a digital sweeping pano camera..my wife has one it will sweep very wide and make a big 1 image pano..Sony has upgraded its DSC line for far more sweeping panos without stitching.

Aug 31, 2015 at 11:16 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Suilven, the beautiful mountain

Sony appears to be making headway on all fronts at the mo .. Hopefully canon might step up .,

I'm prepared to wait for a good few years to see what kind of system I'll want to invest in for the future.. It's an exciting time for photography

The pano in the iPhone has really helped me as a sketch book highlighting alternative compositional choices but also helping to investigate creative possibilities that I can then try on the DSLR. Most of all I can make images in places that I just don't have the power to get my DSLR. It's the speed that is key too, when the weather is turning and time is running out on a mountain you need to be quick to get your images ..I'm really enjoying using the iPhone on the tripod too ..works well
I think new technologies are going to be very liberating and enable us to be as creative as we wish to be.

Aug 31, 2015 at 11:20 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Suilven, the beautiful mountain

This is really nice Jane.
I don't see it being cramped at all since the peak has plenty of headroom where it's needed.
The ends of the shot are meant to bracket the comp anyhow.
The ease of using an iPhone has surprised me on more than an occasion.
I tend to use it as reference shot for LF work but that can change
My only real problem with the iPhone 5 is the native resolution is pretty low.
I think there are some apps that get at the raw/tiff. Do you use a photo app for this?

Thanks for posting

Dan

Aug 31, 2015 at 01:10 PM

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Hi Dan

have just installed 645 PRO and will look to see if it does RAW. It would be nice to see that on the camera on the phone though .. I think this is just s taster of things to come ..
You will find the iPhone 6 much better but it will never have the pixel quality of a good DSLR.. Hence my rather broken up and noisy sky when I proceesed the image to an inch of its life to get the best dynamic range out if it.

Thanks , for me the composition required he low sweep of the foreground rocks in that long curve that balanced the other elements of the composition particularly the central region where it sweeps the other direction giving you a long squashed S shape . Panos can be disjointed and this compositional element for me links the whole panorama . The sky twirls around the peak and hopefully had enough space , You have to choose what is most important and I went for that important foreground rather than sky. Well that was my take on it when I was there and of course is down to the individuals preferences as to how they make those decisions.

Jane

Aug 31, 2015 at 01:28 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Suilven, the beautiful mountain

Could be Isengard, after destruction of the ring.... :-)

I am impressed, I'd never be able to do this with my iPhone. I'm also impressed you hiked that far with a bum knee. I hope it feels better soon!

Sharon

Aug 31, 2015 at 02:05 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Suilven, the beautiful mountain

Thanks Sharona

I did process the life out of the image though to get the range of tones that I wanted from the iPhone image and only black and white would be possible with this much pixel pushing. I daren't show the original

This little mountain had been on my bucket list, so I just had to get up there, my husband was very kind and carried everything so I didn't carry extra weight ., oh except my iPhone of course .. A walking pole is a godsend though and prevents s lot of knee strain.

Ive got to decide about the knee .. It's something that will hold me back so I'm tempted to get it fixed

Jane

Aug 31, 2015 at 03:06 PM


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