Japanese winter landscape

[BernardLanguillier]

Hello my friends,

Still from the same shoot. This one is a bit more technical with a combination of stitching and depth of field stacking from 44 original D800 frames, strong back light and some wind.



D800 and Zeiss Otus 55mm f1.4. Pano gear is RRS on top of a Gitzo tripod.

Workflow was:
- C1 Pro 7 raw conversion,
- DoF stacking job in Helicon,
- Pano work in Autopano pro/PTgui (did both versions, they ended up being extremely similar),
- A few local edits in PS CS6,
- Google Silver eFex B&W conversion.

There are a few more done with the same worklow after the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardlanguillier/

Cheers,
Bernard

[sdwilsonsct]

This is a goal of mine: detailed foreground in the context of the background and sky. Thanks for showing how it's done.
How many shots went into the panorama? I assume that the foreground and background are different shots?

[francois]

Superb, even without considering the amount of technical work and post-processing! The other ones you posted are also very nice but I find that this one is outstanding but I like Frosty days and Keep walking a lot.

[luxborealis]

Gritty. Beautiful. A wonderful photograph. Any more highlight detail in the sky or has it been lost through jpeg compression?

[Michael West]

a lovely photograph but I have to ask when google bought NIK ?

"Google Silver eFex B&W conversion."

[Ed B]

a lovely photograph but I have to ask when google bought NIK ?

"Google Silver eFex B&W conversion."

About a year and a half ago.

[BernardLanguillier]

This is a goal of mine: detailed foreground in the context of the background and sky. Thanks for showing how it's done.
How many shots went into the panorama? I assume that the foreground and background are different shots?

As mentioned, I captured several images at different focusing distances at each angle in the pano.

There are 44 images total.

Cheers,
Bernard

[BernardLanguillier]

Gritty. Beautiful. A wonderful photograph. Any more highlight detail in the sky or has it been lost through jpeg compression?

Probably not much.

It was blindingly bright in real life too.

Cheers,
Bernard

[BernardLanguillier]

Superb, even without considering the amount of technical work and post-processing! The other ones you posted are also very nice but I find that this one is outstanding but I like Frosty days and Keep walking a lot.

Thanks Francois.

Cheers,
Bernard

[Peter McLennan]

Beautiful, amazing.  I've love to see a meter-square print of that image.

State of the art hardware.
State of the art workflow.
State of the art seeing.

Congrats, Bernard!

[BernardLanguillier]

Beautiful, amazing.  I've love to see a meter-square print of that image.

State of the art hardware.
State of the art workflow.
State of the art seeing.

Congrats, Bernard!

Thanks a lot for your kind words Peter. 

Cheers,
Bernard

[Dahlmann]

Lovely shoot Mate.

I like the human face in the upper right of the photo. In the clouds.




Cheers Daniel

[Dahlmann]

here..

[BernardLanguillier]

Lovely shoot Mate.

I like the human face in the upper right of the photo. In the clouds.

Wow... I missed that, thanks for pointing it out!

Cheers,
Bernard

[Chairman Bill]

I like the human face in the upper right of the photo. In the clouds.

Wow. You must hang around with some really odd looking characters 

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Wow, that's an amazing image even on an ipad!

D800 and Zeiss Otus 55mm f1.4. Pano gear is RRS on top of a Gitzo tripod.

I have a noob question: How do you visualize/compose the final frame?

[RSL]

It's a fine piece of work, Bernard, but at 44 exposures for a single picture it seems like an awful lot of work. Don't think it would work for street photography.

[cjogo]

Amazing ~!  Awful lot of work , though... Never did multiple images and layered them.  Too old school = just use the aperture and critical focus.  

 Really nice feature of the Rollei SL66 > had a dropping front bed for the lens > would do almost exactly what the required steps you have taken ~~ in one exposure.
Scheimpflug principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle


With film :: you simple expose for the lows /mids and then process the film to hold your sky value ...Even this bright of situation = you could bring that sky down with the Zone system.



Digitally ::  Expose the first image  :: focus 2/3's in (roughly) at ISO 100 > 500 @ 22 > 24mm ++++  second image at about 125 @ 22 >>>BLEND

[BernardLanguillier]

It's a fine piece of work, Bernard, but at 44 exposures for a single picture it seems like an awful lot of work. Don't think it would work for street photography.

Thanks RSL.

No... it is a no go for street photography! 

Cheers,
Bernard

[BernardLanguillier]

Wow, that's an amazing image even on an ipad!

I have a noob question: How do you visualize/compose the final frame?

Thanks.

In fact I have never really needed a viewfinder to vizualise the images I intend to capture. I just...
- look at a scene,
- find an area I like,
- decide what needs to be in/out,
- translate that into virtual corners,
- add a bit of margin to take into account the impact of projection during stitching,
- position the triopd + pano head,
- double check the angular limits of the head to match the virtual corners I vizualized,
- start shooting.

All that can be done in a few seconds. 

Cheers,
Bernard