I had recently used all of my lenses, at least of the ones that I use on a relatively regular basis, even my wide angle lens although I am not sure that I will reveal that banal photo.
What I hadn't done was shoot an actual panorama. Now, I do frequently crop into a panoramic aspect ratio — basically horizontally wide and narrow vertically — but I seldom shoot a panorama by moving the camera while photographing a scene.
It's so easy with a phone that I was tempted to use it instead of the big beast. With a phone., you just sweep from one side to the other, and the phone does the work on the spot. With my DSLR, however, I must click the shutter, move the camera slightly, and click again. Usually, for me, this involves 3 or 4 separate photos. But that's what I chose to do on that occasion because I am trying to not resort to the phone too much these days as I feel that I overused it last year.
After taking the various shots, you get your software to piece them together into one image. I use Lightroom, but Photoshop and other programs can do the job. In the distant past, software could not do this, so once or twice, I managed to do it by hand. It was a slow and finicky process and not as good a result as the software does now does within seconds.
These were my two panos from Tuesday. I tried another but didn't like it. They are both taken at the edge of Riverside Park near the boat launch. As you can plainly see, I converted them both to b&w, but that didn't need much of a conversion on that gray day.
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| A 3 photo merge with some foreground snow cropped away |
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| A 4 photo merge with much foreground snow cropped out. |
They are very different that this regular not-a-pano photo from January 01, where there is a significant tonal range from black to white. You saw the colour version a week or so ago.
I like both styles, for each fits the day and scene, but right now, I am particularly taken with the gray vibe of the first two.
12 comments:
I have never used the big beast or lightroom to do a pano. It has always seemed like so much work compared to the phone and I have no hangups about using my phone camera.
Nicely done!
I think I will just stick to my phone for panoramics, that is a lot of work to go through. Your photos are beautiful though!
I prefer color rather than black and white. But, with snow and bare trees, what can anyone expect?
As a professional photographer, you should keep your hand in for those different skill sets, I'd imagine. But since I don't do professional photos, I'm happy with the iPhone. Still haven't explored half of the options in it's camera, and I've had it 5 years.
Your first one sings, really. I confess to still making panos by hand if I am not shooting deliberately to crop. My hand edits are not, of course, as good as the software ones, but I love doing it. For me, three shots, hopefully in line, print all three and look for the match. If there is a shoreline, hand stitching is much easier.
I am still learning what my iPhone is capable of doing. I get annoyed with it setting colour values for me, though. There has to be a way! Back to the book.
There is such beauty in the stark lines of the first two.
Snow scenes are just psychedelic
I like them all but especially the 2nd one.
The first two are my favourites too.
Ooooh these are all great! Love the minimalism and monochrome look. Of the three, I think my favorite is the first because I like that empty bench so much. xoxo
These are wonderful.
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