I guess I am not the only one experimenting of late
The weather has been less than stimulating and the high country is only just opening up - slowly. I am getting an itching shutter finger but have not had a lot to "focus" on
Last week I busted my way through the snow and blow downs to get to this waterfall (I have posted a photo of this last year, I think). What I wanted to do was experiment some more with increasing resolution vis panoramas. Specifically, here, trying to match a single 35mm exposure with a 4-shot pano using a 55mm.
According to Photopills, a 35 mm lens subtends an angle of 37.9 deg along the short side and 54.3 deg along the long side. A 55 mm lens subtend 24.6 and 36.2 degs, respectively. In other words, the field of view along the long side of a 55 mm lens is almost the same as that along the short side of a 35 mm. (53mm is actually close to equivalency). So, why do this? 2 reasons - 1) - maybe you didn't bring a 35 but have a 50 or 55. 2) you may want to increase the resolution of your final image.
Below is a single 35mm image taken with my Nikon Df with the Nikkor 35mm f2 AIS, the other image is a composite f a 4-shot vertical pano, each image used was itself a 4-shot focus stack.
I cropped each to 4x5, as this is George's preferred ratio, especially for waterfall gorge shots! As such, the single 35 mm exposure yielded an image of approx. 13 MP, where as the 55 pano gave about 35 MP - so a 2x boast from the 16MP Df sensor.
The 35 was hand held from a little to the left of where I set the tripod. As expected, the field of view is slightly different. I actually prefer the 35mm composition- maybe I should have used my 50mm f2 instead to open it up a bit. Maybe next time.
I did say things were slow and it was time to experiment.
best wishes - Doug
PS - this would have looked better if I could have put the two images side-by-side. Is there a way to do that here without have to put them side-by-side in another program like, PS?
I agree, I like the 35 version better. One thing you did not mention. Are there any trout in that water?
