Early Fall Late Light

Gallery: LandscapePosted September 25, 2011145 views7 comments

Yet another panorama (sorry folks but I have a lot of panos and I'd like to get some feedback on some of them). This one was taken off the Glen Highway, near Eureka Lodge, Alaska. I have a lot of panos and photos of this huge expanse. In most of them the mountains are well lit and the foreground more likely to be in the shadows. This one was the opposite. The sun was bright where I was but despite waiting for quite some time the clouds kept hiding the mountains. The colors were so nice that I went ahead and took some shots.

Multiple photos stitched with Autopano Giga.
Sony DSC-R1, All frames:
ISO-160, f11.0, 1/250

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Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Hussain Nalwala on September 25, 2011 at 7:19 AM

Nice shot.... The sky looks good.

Registered on April 18, 2011, 298 Posts, 339 Comments

Comment posted by Carol Hyman on September 25, 2011 at 10:45 AM

Hi Gary, You've captured a lot in this scene and IMO, all of the elements are screaming for attention. The sky is interesting; the mountain range sings out, "Look at me." What looks like scrub pins is a separate element clamoring for attention; and so is the FG foliage.
I have no idea what sections have been shot as separate images but perhaps just selecting the areas of mountains and sky might be the best solution.
My 2-cents.

Regards,

Carol

Registered on January 18, 2007, 597 Posts, 8062 Comments

Comment posted by Morris McClung on September 25, 2011 at 10:58 AM

Another one I would love to see a huge print of. Excellent depth, color, and balance.

Registered on May 7, 2007, 670 Posts, 19650 Comments

Comment posted by Stan Rose on September 25, 2011 at 12:40 PM

From a technical aspect, its amazing. From an artistic standpoint, I think its pretty darn nice, but there's a couple things that catch my attention that hurt it aesthetically: I see Carol's point, but i do think its cohesive enough given the subject matter--however the extreme llhc is too distracting--that slope of grass doesn't belong in this shot. The other thing is that there is some mild distortion that gives this almost a fish-eye look (the trees look like they're leaning away from you). That's not too bad though. It certainly isn't anything i could pull off, and it's a great wide view of some great scenery!

Registered on September 15, 2005, 836 Posts, 17099 Comments

Comment posted by R.Bill Moser on September 25, 2011 at 2:15 PM

This is a nice shot - beautiful scenery. Composition wise it it were mine i would cut off from the the ride side so that grass in the lower left corner isn't in the frame anymore.

Registered on January 29, 2010, 285 Posts, 4281 Comments

Comment posted by Jeff Hackett on September 25, 2011 at 5:12 PM

I think this is a very nice image with some excellent processing. My only nit is a compositional one, I feel cutoff on the right, like there should be another image stitched on.

Registered on March 13, 2006, 65 Posts, 1119 Comments

Comment posted by Paul Duval on September 25, 2011 at 9:50 PM

Gary,

The left hand side is not doing the image any good and it such a great expansive one.

Paul

Registered on June 30, 2009, 508 Posts, 1907 Comments