Curiosity was getting the better of me so I rushed on ahead to build the
Tetons and the Snake River pano just to see how it might come out. It's
made from eight 5D images, two rows of four portrait orientation images.
Tokina 28-80/2.8 at 80mm and f/16. 3:40pm, Sept 18. It was supposed
to be about 20% wider than this but, not having a pano head, I
underestimated the spacing of the top row images. These turned out to
be narrower than the bottom row so I had to crop it. The image on the
left is the full image area. The image on the right is a full pixel
crop of the river bend near top left of the main image. You can see a
boat with passengers. I'm not through playing with it and haven't tried
a B&W conversion yet but there is enough detail in the image to make a
24x30 print at 220ppi. This is my first ever multi-row pano. PS CS3
had to think on it for a while but handled it fine otherwise. I guess I
should have had some sort of haze filter.
<<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Tetons/index.htm>>
Not as bad as if I'd had to take it at noon but not exactly the drama of
Adams' version. :-)
<http://www.anseladams.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2198>
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Similar to the lighting conditions one encounters when on a
> round-the-country trip which is a vacation and not a photography junket.
> You have to take photos at nice places based on whatever light is
> there when you are. Sometimes it was nice (sort of) but most often it
> was not. For example, while visiting the Grand Tetons I managed to find
> the exact spot that Ansel Adams had used to take his famous "The Tetons
> and the Snake River" photo. But I was only able to be there in
> mid-afternoon and under a clear sky. Uncharacteristically, I even used
> a tripod for some pano shots. But guess what? It won't look like this.
> <http://www.anseladams.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2198>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
>> There was a guy, a Brit, whose book I borrowed from the library many
>> years ago. I don't recall his name. I liked many of his photographs
>> but I was struck by the fact that they all looked like they were taken
>> at about noon. Compositions were terrific, but the lighting looked a
>> little flat, like a 1950s postcard.
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