Crown Point Slash Burn....

I am pretty sure someone was burning tonight as the sun was going down....sure made for some interesting shots....I really liked the clouds on this one and the intense blue topping the hazy reddish orange was a nice contrast....

Aside from the dark at the bottom I would like to know your thoughts on this overphotographed location

thanks in advance

Darren, the clouds and the blue sky are truly awesome and I see why you pulled back to capture them. However, my personal feeling is that the image lacks a clear subject due to the wide angle. I find my eyes wandering around trying to grasp on to something.

Hans I agree, I hate shooting from the WF because the house is always so small and I could not zoom in on the house or I would have lost the sky........decisions decisions!!!

I might add that this is a 5 shot Pano and the file is huge!!!!!

yes, hans you already said that......must be a glitch in the system tonight

Well, the sky is wonderful. It's just strong enough to make up for the darkness on the bottom.

Weird that it double posted. I'll see if I can delete the second instance. ...Looks like I was able to get rid of it.

Anyway, nice stitching on the pano. Printed big, I think this would have greater impact.

Rick, as you probably know...that shadow moves fast once the sun starts to set.....I mean really fast.........I just could not get up high enough to counter what nature was doing....I tried though...people were looking at me all funny!!!!

Nice shot Darren though Hans kind of took the words out of my mouth. Been there done that with that shadow.

I don't understand the comment about the picture lacking a subject. To me, the entire scene is the subject.

I think it's a beautiful image, although I might crop just a little off the bottom.

The loss of a focus is something I fight all the time when I am stitching. The huge field of view makes composition a different thought process for me. Subjects that look nice and large when I'm there seem to shrink to nothing when I get home. I find this to be especially true when I am doing what you did Darren, including that huge beautiful sky. For me, I have found the best defense is to find an anchor, an interesting tree/rock/etc., that I can fill at least 1/3 of the picture with, and then the great scene becomes an awesome background. Sometimes the scene looks great to me without an anchor, but often not. On the other hand, sometimes I can find an anchor I like, often not .

Darren,

Did you use photo merge or another program. I am using Panorama maker 5 for some pans. It sometimes seems to work better than Photo merge ( and visa verse). I've only shot this location once or twice for the typical record sot. I've always seen this as a vertical. Maybe in the right 4-5 shots done in a vertical pan might be really cool. That's whats great about photography--so many decisions! I always get yelled out about shooting too many verticles anyway!
JG

Your right Darren, defintiley hazy that evening. I like the sky quite a bit. If it were me I would crop at the top of the shadow. Although there is still no true anchor the eye would be drawn more to Crown Point and the sky. And although anchors are nice and usually preferred I don't think they are always needed to make a nice wide landscape image IMO.

I think this works pretty well because of the sky. It is a little hazy in the center. Maybe a polarizer would have made a difference.

Thanks for all the comments....

David...I did use a polarizer, that is why the sky is so blue!