October, Round Pond II

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 18, 2014243 views4 comments

Thanks for all your comments on the image I posted yesterday. This one is a crop from the same 5-frame panorama. One of the nice things about shooting large stitched panoramas is that you can crop a lot and still have more pixels than a single exposure.

The larger image I posted yesterday seemed to lead my eye to the bright mountain in the upper right. In this crop, I lost the larger sunlit hills, but I think there is more of a balance between foreground and background, so the eye keeps exploring the whole image. It's at sunrise, looking over a pond in deep shade, and I think this more intimate view conveys that feeling of being in the dim pre-dawn as the Sun first hits the treetops.

PLEASE SEE LARGER VERSION.

Canon 5D Mark III; 24-105 mm.; Circ. Pol.
1/13 Sec. @ f/16; ISO 160
cropped from a larger multi-frame panorama, stitched in PSCC

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Daniel Rappaport on December 18, 2014 at 3:42 PM

Like this one better than the first, for the way the light flows across the hills.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on December 18, 2014 at 5:19 PM

This is real nice, but I prefer the first image. I like the perspective better. I might just burn down that bright area and see if it solves the issue that bothers you? Either way, you can't go wrong. Both presentations work well.

Registered on November 19, 2003, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments

Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on December 20, 2014 at 11:16 AM

I agree with Harley on this. I do like this image, though. The light and color look nice. One suggestion for this one: Clone out that stick on the right bottom. Both images a re nice and peaceful.

--P

Registered on November 1, 2003, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments

Comment posted by Mark Seaver on December 20, 2014 at 7:25 PM

Both look darn good to me, Wayne. I do like this version a bit better, because of how the trio of rocks in the foreground work like stepping stones leading across the pond and because that bright peak that was on the right in the first version isn't there, grabbing so much attention.

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