Wild Phlox, Bruce Road #3, Paisley
During the recent rain-filled weekend get-away in Paisley, Ontario, I decided to head out regardless of the rain and try to capture some images. This panorama shows a bank of wild Phlox/Phlox Divaricata (also called Roadside Phlox in this neck of the woods) along the remnants of the banks of a now cut off stream bed just inside a large bush on the North end of town on Bruce Road #3. I got very soaked here as the grass was waist high, the light but persistent rain and I also stumbled a lot over old logs buried under years of dead plants. I knew a single frame would not capture the feel of the spot so a panorama was what I planned to get that feel. BTW, I did not identify the flowering trees so if anyone knows what they are, please let me know. Note: The panorama image is only on Flickr or Facebook and not on Instagram. - JW
Date Taken: 2023-06-12
Date PP: 2023-06-16
(c) Copyright 2023 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
This was a labour-intensive bit of PP but I present only the bare-bones of that process here. Questions? Post a question and I will try to answer.
Three overlapping frames intended for a pano were taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro, ISO100, Auto WB to get something reasonable in the mixed light sources, Aperture priority mode, Matrix metering, f/11.0, 1/6 sec, 3 overlapping frames taken for use in a stitched panorama. Panorama stitching was done using free Open source Hugin to assemble the three frames into a single TIFF image with dimensions 15,000x4018 px. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use a non-destructive Dodge/Burn layer and various shaped brushes to adjust local brightness, use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to tone down the greens a bit, sharpen very slightly, save, scale image to 7000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on bottom, save.
Wild Phlox, Bruce Road #3, Paisley
During the recent rain-filled weekend get-away in Paisley, Ontario, I decided to head out regardless of the rain and try to capture some images. This panorama shows a bank of wild Phlox/Phlox Divaricata (also called Roadside Phlox in this neck of the woods) along the remnants of the banks of a now cut off stream bed just inside a large bush on the North end of town on Bruce Road #3. I got very soaked here as the grass was waist high, the light but persistent rain and I also stumbled a lot over old logs buried under years of dead plants. I knew a single frame would not capture the feel of the spot so a panorama was what I planned to get that feel. BTW, I did not identify the flowering trees so if anyone knows what they are, please let me know. Note: The panorama image is only on Flickr or Facebook and not on Instagram. - JW
Date Taken: 2023-06-12
Date PP: 2023-06-16
(c) Copyright 2023 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
This was a labour-intensive bit of PP but I present only the bare-bones of that process here. Questions? Post a question and I will try to answer.
Three overlapping frames intended for a pano were taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro, ISO100, Auto WB to get something reasonable in the mixed light sources, Aperture priority mode, Matrix metering, f/11.0, 1/6 sec, 3 overlapping frames taken for use in a stitched panorama. Panorama stitching was done using free Open source Hugin to assemble the three frames into a single TIFF image with dimensions 15,000x4018 px. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use a non-destructive Dodge/Burn layer and various shaped brushes to adjust local brightness, use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to tone down the greens a bit, sharpen very slightly, save, scale image to 7000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on bottom, save.