Perfect!
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Adler" <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Poppy Bloom
> http://www.rgaphoto.com/sierras/content/Pano-HitePano1-HiteCove-MASTER2-CF000666_large.html
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> Better? Click "Next" to see the first one. Further/other suggestions? I'm
> sending this to a couple of forest service folks who were on the trail and
> wanted to see it for possible use on their website.
> Thanks for the help!!
> Bob
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Agreed. I think it looks better with a 3x2 crop with the image starting
>> from the top and the crop lopping off the bottom.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 3/23/2013 9:04 AM, Don Holbrook wrote:
>> > Looking at this with snow spitting here! You worked to get this one.
>> If I look at it with the bottom third cut off, I can see everything
>> flowing to the right.
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: Group Leica Users <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Olympus Camera Discussion
>> > <
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>> > Sent: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:39:50 -0000 (UTC)
>> > Subject: [OM] IMG: Poppy Bloom
>> >
>> > I expected to see Dorothy asleep in the grass, though she and her
>> companions would have rolled down the hill into the Merced River long
>> ago.
>> >
>> > This was Hite Cove Trail today. Left home at 5:45am and returned at
>> 7:30pm. 4hr drive each way. Just to the west of El Portal Gate into
>> Yosemite.
>> >
>> > The wildflower bloom here is very rare and only lasts a few days. Last
>> one I saw was 5 or 6 years ago, and I look out for word of it every year.
>> It is a one person foot path about 500 feet above the Merced river. The
>> hills, which this shot show, continue up at the same 125 degrees that
>> they
>> slope downward. The tripod had two legs at their shortest uphill and one
>> leg full extended on the side of the path so folks could get by. I
>> actually
>> got scolded once for "not staying on the path". There is always a flower
>> Nazi somewhere... ;-)
>> >
>> > Anyway, tough shooting physically (MFDB, precarious, sunny 16, no room
>> to move) and mentally ("there HAS to be an image here somewhere!). The
>> wind
>> did not cooperate much either.
>> >
>> > Well enough excuses. Here's the only image from the day that is
>> passable. I plan to refine it if it grows on me. Your
>> thoughts/suggestions
>> would be really appreciated.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.rgaphoto.com/sierras/content/Pano-HitePano1-HiteCove-MASTERCF000666_large.html
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Bob
>> >
>> > Oh yes, techie stuff: Alpa MAX with a 50mm Rodegon in portrait
>> orientation, 7 degress lens tilt, ISO 50, polarizing filter, 1/125, 3
>> blended images (shifted 10 deg left, center and 10deg right). Phase One
>> IQ160. That's a lot for some freaking flowers that I could have lost it
>> all
>> for!
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPad
>> >
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