Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Josh-H on December 20, 2013, 10:13:49 pm
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Eight image stitch shot from zodiac on the recent expedition I lead to Antarctica (http://blog.jholko.com/2013/12/18/antarctica-photographic-expedition-2013-report/). The ship between the ice is our expedition ship 'Polar Pioneer' - 72 metres long and 6 decks high with the fly bridge. This was one giant iceberg - joined under the water.
I published a much larger version of this here on my BLOG (http://blog.jholko.com/2013/12/21/antarctica-an-epic-sense-of-scale/)
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Holy G O R G E O U S Batman....
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Wow.
Beautifully wrought.
Is the boat — or any smaller boats — able to navigate the chasm(s) between the parts above water?
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Spectacular!
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This is crazy good. It would be gorgeous without the ship but the scale it provides is fantastic. Hard to imagine just how big these things are without something to compare it against. Thanks for sharing.
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Is the boat — or any smaller boats — able to navigate the chasm(s) between the parts above water?
This would have been possible even in our expedition ship - however it would have been exceedingly dangerous. It was doing my head in with the idea of racing through that chasm in a zodiac; but its just too dangerous with possible icefall or if something goes wrong you would be in a world of hurt very quickly.
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I add my congratulations Josh.
Image-making at its stunning best!
Tony Jay
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Stunning shot, like most of yours.
To me it looks very dangerous, even for the large ship,
imagining a large block on the right side breaking down from the crack visible there.
/ me is shivering.
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Stunning image - great composition and tones. What are its dimensions?
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Fantastic. Perfectly realized. Congratulations!
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What are its dimensions?
I assume you mean the image, but — calculating roughly by pixel, and assuming the boat is far from the viewer and not too far from the berg, the above-water ice is about 200m high 2000m wide. (Does that seem about right, Josh?)
The larger file on Josh's site — link in the OP — is worth viewing.
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Eight image stitch shot from zodiac on the recent expedition I lead to Antarctica (http://blog.jholko.com/2013/12/18/antarctica-photographic-expedition-2013-report/).
Can you elaborate on how you got your eight images from a Zodiac, and how you stitched them? At least the first parts sounds like a story worth telling.
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Amazing.
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Fantastic shot, it's a tabular iceberg and amazing to see in real life.
I spent a long time down in the Antarctic working and we had a tabular 'berg float in to the bay near us and then stayed for the winter as the sea froze. We had a number of opportunities to get up close, this 'berg was approx 2km around so not quite as big as Josh's, this shot is also nowhere near as nice! There's a decent sense of scale though, we're standing on frozen sea here.
(http://www.matrichardson.com/img/s10/v106/p239004880-5.jpg) (http://www.matrichardson.com/p334540200/ee3eecd0)
Mat
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I assume you mean the image, but — calculating roughly by pixel, and assuming the boat is far from the viewer and not too far from the berg, the above-water ice is about 200m high 2000m wide. (Does that seem about right, Josh?)
The larger file on Josh's site — link in the OP — is worth viewing.
Yes, thats about right. The ship was probably no more than 50 metres from the ice when this was taken. Its hard to gauge the real size of these icebergs even when you are there. We came across another berg even larger than this one in Antarctic sound. I would have guessed it was a mile or so long; the Captain told me it was more than two.
Matt, I have some similar shots to yours with the human element and have found at times its necessary to include people to give that sense of scale.
Cheers ;D
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Can you elaborate on how you got your eight images from a Zodiac, and how you stitched them? At least the first parts sounds like a story worth telling.
There wasn't any magic to it unfortunately ;D. We had motored from our ship around the edge of the large iceberg and were headed toward some smaller bergs and penguins. I happened to turn around and saw the ship emerging in the chasm and realised there was a great opportunity to show the scale of the ice, so asked the zodiac driver to stop. I then simply banged off eight frames with the idea I would stitch them later. All I did in post was take the first frame in Lightroom and set the exposure and black and white points, add 12 points of clarity and 12 points of vibrance. I then used the match total exposures command across the remaining 7 frames. I then merged them to PS CC using the perspective option with remove geometric distortion selected. After the blend I sharpened it and that was it. I wish I could say this image was a result of hours of patience, but like many good photographs it was made almost subconsciously - as in I really didn't think too much about it at the time. What I personally find interesting is that I very rarely ever stitch images. There was something about this scene that intuitively drove me straight down that path.
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Well, there's magic in the image, and in the capture " … something about this scene that intuitively drove me straight … ", and something akin to magic in " … add 12 points of clarity and 12 points of vibrance. I then used the match total exposures command across the remaining 7 frames. I then merged them to PS CC using the perspective option … ".
But the part I'd most like to be able to match:
" … asked the zodiac driver to stop."
:D
Thanks for the behind-the-scenes recounting.
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Splendid indeed, and thanks for the Method.
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Well done, Josh!!
Mike.
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great shot...and especially with ship /B