Both ?
leave the pillars out then restore the proportions?
Phx
http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/156696-2/2009-PAW-12-ChronoPanoGraph.jpg
Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>The horizontal or vertical crop, but cannot decide which one.
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>Nathan (sitting firmly on the fence)
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>On Oct 20, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Moose wrote:
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>>Most panoramas are horizontally oriented, taht is, much wider than
>>high.
>>
>>At Bob's Marsh*, I took a couple of panoramas. One is rather
>>conventional. Using 35mm FL vertically, it captures all the
>>foreground I
>>want and doesn't loose. Standing on the bridge, rather than at water's
>>edge, I was presented with a much greater vertical vista, what with
>>all
>>the detail in the water almost at my feet.
>>
>>I took a series of shots at 17 mm and vertically oriented. Combined
>>and
>>cropped into a rectangular panorama, they pretty closely approximate
>>the
>>FOV of an 11 mm lens on FF, although without the edge distortion. I
>>did
>>correct linear distortion with PTLens in each individual image before
>>combining them.
>>
>>The problem is, absent a way of hanging myself out in thin air a few
>>feet from the bridge, I get the bridge abutments in the picture. The
>>left one is no problem, being dark and small. But the right one is
>>large
>>and in direct sun, giving a distracting focal point in the corner.
>>
>>My first thought was to crop it out, which gave me a choice of
>>horizontal or squarish image. When I asked Carol which she preferred,
>>she said neither, she preferred it without cropping, saying something
>>like "It's beautiful, the concrete is part of it and that's OK."
>>
>>Hmmmmm. I kept looking at it. I can see her point, but can't stand the
>>bright corner. So I tried just bringing down the brightness of the
>>concrete. Here are all the alternatives. What do you prefer?
>><http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/MPhotos/Maine/BobsMarsh/_MG_7940-44.htm
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>>Moose
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>>* Previously known as Bass Harbor Marsh
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