Originally Posted by
jamesdak
LOL, I was wondering who would notice that. That's called photomerging two low quality cell phone images on a low powered laptop still running PS2. Bad blend just at that one end of the MT. I was just playing yesterday and didn't worry about it too much.
I use that technique seriously for a lot of Panographs and large images. I'll take a telephoto and shoot highly detailed pieces of an image then merge them in photoshop. This has pretty much eliminated my medium format gear for scenics.
This 3' x 5' picture was shot using a Mamiya 200/2.8 APO lense adapted to my Canon 5D body. It's around 30 images combined, then cropped and downsized. In the full resolution image you can clearly see several elk at the bottom of the valley along the creek. This was printed up as a test of the technique more than for the image itself.
The shot from yesterday was just me being lazy.
Ah, so you're slipping!
I was wondering how you got pictures like that just riding around. I appreciate the work you do to make them look good.
Funny thing about that test example: looking at the mountain/sky section in isolation, it looks normal, and looking at the lower portion in isolation, that looks normal, too. But when you can see them together, the sharpness of the mountaintops and the clarity of colors in that portion look out of place. A really shallow depth of field might be too artsy sometimes, but there's something un-scenic about
everything being in focus and the lack of atmospheric perspective - it's certainly unlike a natural point of view.
Very interesting, though.