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Re: [OM] Panorama - Crop? H or V?

Subject: Re: [OM] Panorama - Crop? H or V?
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:39:31 -0400
I think on the whole I like the vertical crop the best. That said, the  
concrete doesn't bother me, in either form. The horizontal crop looks  
a little cropped to me. Good job. The light was especially shined from  
heaven while you were there.

--Bob Whitmire
www.bwp33.com




On Oct 20, 2009, at 12:34 AM, Moose wrote:

> 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 
> >
>
> Moose
>
> * Previously known as Bass Harbor Marsh

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