Wide Open

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 17, 2012137 views6 comments

I was out well before sunrise this morning and hiked about 1 hr. and 20 mins. to get to a place on top of the buttes at Buffalo Creek. When I got to the parking lot the sky was full of stars. By the time it got to sunrise the clouds had starting moving in faster then I wanted. There was a small brake in the clouds over the horizon in the southeast. This is shooting south from the top of the buttes. This is a six image pano and then cropped to about 75% of the original six images. The country side here is so wide open that it takes a pano to take it all in. While is was waiting for the light to do something a young Bighorn Ram with about a 3/4 curl came within about 10 yards of me and just stopped and stared for a while. Just a little extra blessing.

Canon 40D
Sigma 17-70
Settings on manual
Shutter 1 sec
Aperture f18
ISO 100
21 mm
Pano, curves and levels in PSE9

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Nick Bristol on December 17, 2012 at 7:18 PM

Richard, This is really cool looking and I love this wide open feel. I kind of wish the bright area in the left side of the sky was a bit less. Maybe you could take the highlights down a little (if you wanted). Other than that I think it could use just a bit of ccw rotation. Anyways, I'm enjoying this a lot as is!!...

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on December 17, 2012 at 8:52 PM

Thanks Nick for the observation on the rotation. I have take care of that.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on December 18, 2012 at 12:17 AM

Beautiful sky. the pano format is the perfect way to showcase the immense distance and 'wide open' is a very apt description. I love this one.

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Comment posted by R.Bill Moser on December 18, 2012 at 12:47 PM

I love the "wide open spaces" feel to it. this is something we don't have here in switzerland but i know it well from the time I spent a lot of time in the american southwest. I love your pano comp. Beautiful view.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on December 18, 2012 at 1:45 PM

Richard,

Love the expansive view here - which comes across very well even considering how hard it is for panos to do in these small versions. Great job in your comp and giving the slight edge to the sky, which I think really adds to the expansive look to this. Excellent all the way around.

Lon

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on December 18, 2012 at 9:30 PM

Miles and miles of miles and miles.

The colors in the sky set this one off very well.

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