Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Enda Cavanagh on May 27, 2013, 11:41:53 am
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This sunset photo is of the Old Head Lighthouse in County Cork beside Old Head Golf Club. The setting is pretty spectacular. The image had to tie in with a piece of text from Molloy by Samuel Beckett. "Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea" and the setting is completely appropriate. My aim was to shoot a moody atmospheric scene at sunset. The aspect ratio of the image had to be quite wide to suit the space in where it is installed. I knew that the sun would be to the very right. This enabled me to shoot a sweeping panoramic photo. I was blessed with some fantastic weather. I wanted the sun just peaking over the horizon so timing was crucial. I started shooting on the left side of the scene about 30 minutes before sunset. This would allow me to have sunlight on the rocks and lighthouse and just give me enough time to catch the sun on the right to give it a natural look. After all the scene took 30 minutes and consists of 58 images. But what you see is what was there.
The photo consists of a series of images captured with a 35mm Schneider Xl (I think) on a Cambo Wide DS with a Hasselblad H3D 39 digital Back.
(http://www.endacavanagh.com/Enda's%20Images/Images%20for%20Luminous%20Landscape/Sunset,-Old-Head,-County-Cork-1.jpg)
You can view it in a larger size by clicking here (http://www.endacavanagh.com/wide_panoramic/sunset_photo_old_head_lighthouse_old_head_golf_club_cork_ireland)
All comments about the watermark will be ignored! :D
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A beautiful scene, beautifully executed.
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Excellent, but I like the right part better. The lighthouse perspective feels jarring to me.
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Hi Scott.
The lighthouse was the reason I was commissioned to photograph the scene :)
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Hi Scott.
The lighthouse was the reason I was commissioned to photograph the scene :)
I think he had in mind the lighthouse distortion.
Speaking of which... isn't it the easiest problem in the world to solve when shooting panoramics? I mean, by taking a shot where the lighthouse is in the middle (i.e., no distortion, even if you would use a fisheye), rather closer to the edge?
P.S. Hey, Isaac, you still think big names do not get a fair share of criticism? ;)
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I think he had in mind the lighthouse distortion.
"Perspective" was pussy-footing. Sort of Canadian for "distortion".
Interesting solution, Slobodan.
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Nice shot Enda. I like the subtle colours and sheer 'Wideness' of it all.
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I think he had in mind the lighthouse distortion.
Speaking of which... isn't it the easiest problem in the world to solve when shooting panoramics? I mean, by taking a shot where the lighthouse is in the middle (i.e., no distortion, even if you would use a fisheye), rather closer to the edge?
P.S. Hey, Isaac, you still think big names do not get a fair share of criticism? ;)
It would be even easier just to take the lighthouse from this shot and squash the one here
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Got back to my computer and played with the lighthouse. I squashed and skewed it to remove the stretched look. It was one of my first wide panos. I was stupidly combining lens movements with camera rotation. It was a nightmare to stitch as a result. I'm not big into reading how to do something. ;D
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There is nothing like wrestling with a technique as a learning experience.
Not for mission critical moments though.
Tony Jay
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I am more attracted by the natural elements than the lighthouse, which ends being a small accessory to the photo. Wonderful scene.
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I am more attracted by the natural elements than the lighthouse, which ends being a small accessory to the photo. Wonderful scene.
Hi Paulo
The lighthouse was the reason for the shot. Printed at 3m high the lighthouse was 40cm high. The image you see here is 1200 pixel wide. and is about 1/42 the size of the print in pixels