Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: slothead on January 10, 2014, 12:16:43 pm
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On the way home from Steamboat Springs recently, I stopped and grabbed this hand-held pano using my D800, Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4 (manually at f/11 and 1/500 sec with ISO 400). I was looking west from the highway north out of Silverthorne at mid-afternoon.
(http://images.nikonians.org/galleries/data/16792/Silverthorne_Panorama3_1-3-14a4a.jpg)
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I think that when you show a pano-view there isn't always a particular subject, maybe the complete landscape is the subjet here. I like it! :)
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Isaac,
Sierraman's assessment is correct, although I would have said it differently. The subject is the composition - the foreground grasses, the background mountains and highlands, the complex sky (I particularly like skies). While I have photographed motorsports, wildlife, architecture, and the other, lately I have been concentrating on landscapes, and the majority of those panoramas.
Very few multi-image panoramas are very well represented on-screen, unless you have a 27" iMac like I use, and in forums like LL, very frequently the forum rules prevent a very decent display of a wide and short image. It's a real problem for many of us panoramists. On top of that, I am still not fully familiar with the specific rules of the LL.
So, in summary, the subject is the composition. If you like it, great. If you don't, well, that's fine too.
(And if you have any hints on how best to display it here in LL, I would be grateful. Because this image is not posted in a lot of places here on the I'net, I borrowed my upload to Nikonians for the link here - I hope that doesn't break any rules. I will probably be experimenting with my smugmug resource in that regard too.)
Thanks for asking.
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Yes, the display is a major stumbling block in appreciating your image, which should have displayed, by your file dimensions of 15x3.3" @ 120 PPI, at roughly 4.2x19" on my 24" 94 PPI monitor instead of the 8.5" un-expandable. Interestingly, I can display it at full screen height of 4.75" on my 10.1" Asus 1200x1980 display by stretching the screen.
The display of a direct link to your same file through the browse button below would be interesting, as in my recent Death Valley pano, the 15" wide 94 PPI file displays as it should on my monitor.
I like your image - the cold vastness counterbalanced by the lovely warm sky in a pleasing composition. I would be tempted to crop just past the bulk of the shrubs on the left, though, which holds my eye, and allow the leading diagonal to take you rightward.
Pete
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Thanks Pete. I appreciate the input.
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Nice vast landscape, with good light and lots of interest in the various planes. I just don´t like the inclusion of the vehicle.
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I thought about cropping that out Paulo. Now I have reason to crop both ends! :)
Thanks,
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Agree with Paulo on all counts. I also think a tighter side crop would bring more emphasis to the mountains.
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I'd like to see a larger version. It looks very nice but the vehicle doesn't add anything here.
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Ah Silverthorne.
Many years ago, on a trip to America, I found the ideal place for fishing. A river (Blue?) came out of a reservoir (Dillon?) and I could park my car in the car park of a large shopping mall. I spent the day fishing while my wife spent the day in the shops, just meeting up for morning coffee and lunch. That to me is THE ideal fishing location!
Memory says it had a name like Silverthorne. Could it be the same place.
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Lake Dillon is next to Frisco, west of Silverthorne on I-70.
Here is the pano with both ends cropped (big bush on the left and federal vehicle on the right - now gone. Personally I liked it better before.
(http://images.nikonians.org/galleries/data/16792/Silverthorne_Panorama4_1-3-14a5a.jpg)
I don't know why it appears smaller here than it does on its resident page.
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Yes -Better
David
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Indeed much improved and also easier to print!