awfulsteelmelon
Into the (infrared) light
Okay, so I could not resist to produce another crop of this IR pano I already made:
www.flickr.com/photos/197010762@N05/53133392197/in/dateta...
I dig this particular development, the color scheme and framing overall, the shadow from the trees in the foreground give a sense of 'looking out' into the beautiful open rural landscape, into the blazzzzing midsummer infrared sunlight.
Writing about improvements and failures recently, I more or less discovered now (after years) that the hybrid-focus approach with this 3-row panoramic layout is pretty much a blunder! I focus all manual, and the bottom row - the foreground - a bit closer than the middle and top line.
Turned out, that this not only makes it more error prone as well as more cumbersome, it is also inferior to a uniform infinity focus all the way through! My initial tests that brought that about were not wrong per se, but more of a special case and then one thing lead to another. Photography is a cruel mistress.
★ I just need to remind myself, that it was good enough so far, otherwise I would not have done it all, and that mistakes bring progress which is often uncomfortable but ultimately good, and finally, that nothing will ever be perfect, that's just the nature of things (resp. the mind)! May peace be with you..★
Technically, the source of this is a 36-piece mercator projection (trimmed 20791 x 12375px yielding ~257,3MP) that I cropped to 8:5 aspect ratio, 8851 x 5532px, ~49MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,5sec
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)
Into the (infrared) light
Okay, so I could not resist to produce another crop of this IR pano I already made:
www.flickr.com/photos/197010762@N05/53133392197/in/dateta...
I dig this particular development, the color scheme and framing overall, the shadow from the trees in the foreground give a sense of 'looking out' into the beautiful open rural landscape, into the blazzzzing midsummer infrared sunlight.
Writing about improvements and failures recently, I more or less discovered now (after years) that the hybrid-focus approach with this 3-row panoramic layout is pretty much a blunder! I focus all manual, and the bottom row - the foreground - a bit closer than the middle and top line.
Turned out, that this not only makes it more error prone as well as more cumbersome, it is also inferior to a uniform infinity focus all the way through! My initial tests that brought that about were not wrong per se, but more of a special case and then one thing lead to another. Photography is a cruel mistress.
★ I just need to remind myself, that it was good enough so far, otherwise I would not have done it all, and that mistakes bring progress which is often uncomfortable but ultimately good, and finally, that nothing will ever be perfect, that's just the nature of things (resp. the mind)! May peace be with you..★
Technically, the source of this is a 36-piece mercator projection (trimmed 20791 x 12375px yielding ~257,3MP) that I cropped to 8:5 aspect ratio, 8851 x 5532px, ~49MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,5sec
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)