Was torn between going to the Tunnel View or to Glacier Point for my dose of the golden light. Opted to go over the latter. Saw a bland completely blue sky when I got there. However, as the sun was going down behind me, I could see a few specks of cloud accumulating in the distance. Like we are always warned, high altitude weather is the most unpredictable, the speck of cloud transformed in to the lenticular formation with the setting sun highlighting the form.
This is a stitched pano from 16 frames. The stitching was done in Lightroom.
adamsmith11 wrote:
Bibek,
Is this photo like digital art? this image seems to me like that. the original image is not like this.
Anytime we present an image shot in raw from a camera on the internet it becomes a digital art simply because we convert it digitally to a jpg. Also the fact that I stitched 16 portrait frames in to one panorama adds to the digital part. On top of all these yes I did process this in photoshop but did not manipulate (add or remove) anything from my original image to make it look like what my eyes perceived. This is as close to what my memory helped me reproduce and I have hardly done justice to what nature presented to me.
Nice stitch! I am finding out more and more that the only way a 35mm can come close to capturing the grandeur of many locations is by expanding the depth of the perspective with sticking.
I subscribe to landscape photography as an art. I'm not interested in just what the sensor records but what the artist can do with that information. Only if its pleasing to my eye will I consider putting it on my wall - as art.
Really well captured, and very lucky on that lenticular cloud! I need to try some stitching at 35mm next time I'm taking shots in places like these, you've inspired me!
dbehrens wrote:
Nice stitch! I am finding out more and more that the only way a 35mm can come close to capturing the grandeur of many locations is by expanding the depth of the perspective with sticking.
I subscribe to landscape photography as an art. I'm not interested in just what the sensor records but what the artist can do with that information. Only if its pleasing to my eye will I consider putting it on my wall - as art.
Nicely done!
Dave,
Thank you. I got a few at 16-20mm (with my 16-35) but the pin cushioning at these width took the impact of the Half Dome away. So I resorted to about a 35mm range and wanted to stitch the pano together. I have seen that in low close to ground perspectives I love the width the 16-35 provides by amplifying the center, however, for a higher perspective the narrowing of the center diminished the impact of the center of the frame. Since both the cloud and the Half Dome were both dominant targets, I switched to the 24-70 and tried to get an much of a balance as possible.
I am also with you in the sensors output - have shot a lot with Kodakchrome, Ektachrome, Sakura and Fujichrome to know that the development in darkroom often provided more than what the emulsion could generate.
RoamingScott wrote:
Really well captured, and very lucky on that lenticular cloud! I need to try some stitching at 35mm next time I'm taking shots in places like these, you've inspired me!
Thank you Scott. It's sights like these that keep bringing me out and giving me solace from my daily grinds.
Thank you. I usually shoot with about a 60% overlap both vertically and horizontally. I feel that given this amount of overlap, the dng also does not get inflated as much because there is common pixel information. So each frame on the 5D MkIII was about 23MB and the final dng was 180MB.
Thank you. I usually shoot with about a 60% overlap both vertically and horizontally. I feel that given this amount of overlap, the dng also does not get inflated as much because there is common pixel information. So each frame on the 5D MkIII was about 23MB and the final dng was 180MB.
