Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Peter McLennan on June 21, 2018, 11:53:11 pm
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Just finished my trip report. There are two parts.
Here's part one (for convenience)
https://spark.adobe.com/page/0McWFgnfSgirE/
and here's part two
https://spark.adobe.com/page/D0olA8FWEA08H/
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More great pics and story! Terrific stuff, Peter.
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+1
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Thumbs up!
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Nicely presented!
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Excellent, Peter! Loved the photos and commentary. This also makes me want to try Adobe Spark for a project. It seems to really be made for this kind of storytelling.
I was in DC for just one day last fall after a work trip and saw some of what you did but as you know a day is generally not enough. The African American museum had a line stretching for blocks when I was there so I decided to go places I didn't have to wait so long for. I'll have to check it out on my next visit.
I think I need to check out Bear Tooth Pass sometime too. I'll bring skis!
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Thanks, Matt. Spark is effortless to use, but limited in capability. Font choices, text block placement and other creative choices are all locked down by severely constrained "Themes" within Spark. I do like the full-with image capability and the responsive documents that result. A pox on those who view this stuff on phones, though. :) :) :)
It's also a bit of a walled garden. You're locked into Adobe. Adobe recently end-of-lifed their web authoring tool "Muse", to the dismay of many who've bet their careers on that tool. Adobe hinted that a Spark upgrade would appear soon and that might be the reason Muse was toasted.
What I'd like is a way for Sparks to link to other Sparks. Then, you could do some neat stuff. Now, it's a bit of a one trick pony.
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Thanks for sharing your great adventure.
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Wow man, a man and his Camper. Loved every minute of the trip and story. Well told and presented. Excellent photographs! Not to focus on the small stuff and gear, but I am curious on how you created the pano images. Stitching or native pano-size? They are wonderful. They really create a sense of breath, especially in the prairie images and skies. Thank you for sharing such an inspirational presentation.
JR
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Thanks, John. The positive responses here are most satisfying, especially given the high level of skills apparent on this site.
By far, it’s the words that are difficult. The pictures are easy by comparison.
Many (most, even) of the images are from my Samsung S9 phone. Several years on, it continues to amaze me. The rest are from my D800’s, both of which are far better photographers than I am. :)
The D800-sourced panos were stitched in LRCC. Spark’s image compression process mangles the panos on import, resulting in lots of artifacts that I can’t control. The pano of Frito (the van), the church and the horse cart shows this to extreme, as do the white line highway markings elsewhere.
I was lucky in several instances with the weather. I’ve come to understand that most landscape photos are really weather photos.
And, of course, Frito makes it possible to “be there”.
Again, thanks!