Warming Morning

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 2, 20161,845 views11 comments

PLEASE click on the image or the expansion symbol under it to view this larger!

Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my previous image.

This is another image from last October in the Adirondacks. This is the left half of a panorama of 9 vertical images of Chapel Pond at sunrise. I cropped it down to about 41 megapixels. Shooting huge, wide panoramas presents me with so many cropping choices that I have a hard time picking the composition I want. When I am there, I want to capture everything; but back home I sometimes realize that the "everything" that made my heart soar at the scene translates better on paper (and monitors) when I "put some blinders on."

Canon 5D3; Canon 24-105 mm.; Circ. Pol.
1/30 sec. @ f/16; ISO 320
4 vertical frames stitched in PSCC (All my panoramas that include some foreground are exposed using a home-made pano bracket for nodal point control.)

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Harley Goldman on May 2, 2016 at 1:39 PM

Beautiful color and reflection and the bit of mist on the water adds a nice touch to the mood of the image.

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Comment posted by gary phillips on May 2, 2016 at 2:37 PM

I can't get enough of these shots, Wayne. Has to be quite an experience arriving at this scene and I think you represented it very nicely. No nits from me.

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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on May 2, 2016 at 4:38 PM

Stunningly beautiful. The large version really takes your breath away. I like the inclusion of the shoreline on the left side but the lighting looks really flat. Their reflections in the water look good. Perhaps a bit more contrast would help.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on May 2, 2016 at 6:48 PM

Wayne, the lighting and the near perfect reflection are wonderful. The touch of fog and the shoreline along the left side add a fine sense of depth. A spectacular image.

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Comment posted by John Williams on May 3, 2016 at 1:04 AM

Gorgeous reflection Wayne; it really sings in the larger version.

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on May 3, 2016 at 4:11 AM

Feel like I might have been here before. Lovely scene :)

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Comment posted by David Schoen on May 3, 2016 at 12:20 PM

This is done extremely well. Very nice moody feeling with terrific color reproduction.

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on May 3, 2016 at 1:42 PM

This is just too good Wayne. One of your finest IMHO. This really jumps out and commands your attention. Would love to see it printed LARGE.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on May 3, 2016 at 6:11 PM

Wayne,

A beautiful, quiet and relaxing image - makes me wish I was just hanging out on the shore sitting on a log.

I can see your dilema with trying to choose a comp from a wider pano. All I got to say is you made a great choice!

No nits per se, but if it were mine, I might clone some of the small bits of sky in the tree in the ULC; no biggie though.

Wonderful image that just brings the viewer right there.

Lon

Registered on November 24, 2006, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments

Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on May 4, 2016 at 9:46 AM

Some years ago I also made a pano head, and it really makes stitching easier. Unfortunately I don't have any room for it in my camera bag.... This is really nice, very calm and serene, exactly as those fine autumn mornings are!

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on May 13, 2016 at 2:57 PM

Hey Wayne,
Sweet . . .
Very nice work from start to finish, I'm going to have to get up your way so we can get out on the water together some day soon.

Registered on June 16, 2012, 567 Posts, 2809 Comments