Posted by Scott Fricke on September 24, 2012 at 8:39 PM
Lizard Lake, near Marble, Colorado
I had spent the day trying to shoot fall colors, my first time out shooting in a long while, but for whatever reason wasn't feeling inspired by much. I decided to take Schofield Pass/Devil's Punchbowl down late in the day and shoot Crystal Mill, which was just crawling with people. Heading down to Marble I come up on a front-end loader towing a broken down truck down the trail. As the trail is very narrow with few places to pass, it was a long, slow, frustrating drive down - until I rounded a corner and was presented with this. The entire surface of the lake was like a mirror. This was shot with my 15mm fisheye lens. I posted a closeup image that is part of a 12 image panorama of the whole lakeshore in the Landscape Gallery here: http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/ic.cgi?a=vp&pr=196926&CGISESSID=73db3d6fff375dd9fe15f4941fc9ce2a&u=16552
Any comments and critiques would be greatly appreciated.
Canon 5DII, 15mm Fisheye, f11.0, 1/10 sec, ISO 100
Posted by Karl Buiter on September 24, 2012 at 9:38 PM
Mesmerizing. I love the closeup frame on the link.
Posted by John Mumaw on September 26, 2012 at 6:38 AM
Perfect reflection! I like it, and I like your clseup version in the Landscape forum, as well.
I'd love to know how you stitch 12 images taken with a fisheye lens into a distortion free panorama.
Very neat comp, Scott, I actually like the way the distorted trees on the right emphasize the bulge of the mountain. My only observation is that it feels like the reflection could use just a little more space at the bottom.
Posted by Scott Fricke on September 26, 2012 at 9:00 PM
I'd love to know how you stitch 12 images taken with a fisheye lens into a distortion free panorama.
John, I switched the lens to a 24-105 for the 12 shot panorama. That would be quite a trick with a fisheye!
Posted by Scott Fricke on September 26, 2012 at 9:14 PM
Thanks Jackson, you're right, I noticed it when I shot the photo but because of the shape of the shoreline at my feet and needing to tilt of the camera down farther I couldn't get anymore space at the bottom without really increasing the distortion.
Posted by Stan Rose on September 29, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Discussion
7 repliesI had spent the day trying to shoot fall colors, my first time out shooting in a long while, but for whatever reason wasn't feeling inspired by much. I decided to take Schofield Pass/Devil's Punchbowl down late in the day and shoot Crystal Mill, which was just crawling with people. Heading down to Marble I come up on a front-end loader towing a broken down truck down the trail. As the trail is very narrow with few places to pass, it was a long, slow, frustrating drive down - until I rounded a corner and was presented with this. The entire surface of the lake was like a mirror. This was shot with my 15mm fisheye lens. I posted a closeup image that is part of a 12 image panorama of the whole lakeshore in the Landscape Gallery here: http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/ic.cgi?a=vp&pr=196926&CGISESSID=73db3d6fff375dd9fe15f4941fc9ce2a&u=16552
Any comments and critiques would be greatly appreciated.
Canon 5DII, 15mm Fisheye, f11.0, 1/10 sec, ISO 100
I'd love to know how you stitch 12 images taken with a fisheye lens into a distortion free panorama.
John, I switched the lens to a 24-105 for the 12 shot panorama. That would be quite a trick with a fisheye!