You got great value for your "2 cents" Ann. I do keep both stitching (and stacking) in mind for some day...maybe.(?)
Jack (A cropper) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Sanfedele" <ann...@nyc.rr.com> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:48:07 AM Subject: Re: April PUG - Panorama - Now Up And yet your favorite (and one of mine) is _not_ a true panorama according to your definition - David mentioned this in one of his posts.. :-) The thing is some of us don't shoot panoramas or care about stitching to get that extra wide view but do care about supporting the PUG... OTOH now and then I have taken a photo that needed cropping top and bottom to make a better composition... the only way anyone would know it isn't a pan is if they knew what equipment I was using to get it, right? just 2 cents ann On 4/14/2015 00:01, Darren Addy wrote: > It's a nice gallery with many wonderful images but, at the risk of > being pedantic, I must say that I feel that a large percentage of them > are not panoramas (if we are using the term in the traditional > photographic sense and not simply as a synomym of "a vista". A true > panorama results in a wide aspect ratio, but a wide aspect ratio does > not necessarily make a panorama. A panorama is created in one of two > ways: > 1) by stitching together two or more exposures (ideally made by > pivoting around the lenses nodal point) that results a a Field of View > wider than would have been possible with a wide lens on the normal > film/sensor format. > 2) by the use of a lens with the Field of View (and image circle) of a > larger format, used on a smaller format film/sensor. (As in a 5x7 film > capable 90mm lens being used in conjunction with a 120 film format in > the Fuji G617/GX617. Another example might be a strip of 35mm film > exposed in 6x7 camera with a 6x7 lens. > > Shooting in true panorama fashion can be a real challenge, both in the > taking and the making of the image. Not so with merely cropping a > traditional image into a panorama-imitating aspect ratio. Perhaps I > was reading too much into the theme of "Panorama" and thus my > expectations are out of line. If so, I apologize. But I have a real > appreciation for real panoramas, and I was let down by a significant > percentage of the images in this gallery. That being said, I made no > submission myself, feeling that I had not made a true panorama in > quite a while. > > All of that being said, my favorite images were Ken Waller's "Denali > Falls" (the only vertical image of the entire gallery and an image > that reminds me of one I took while hiking as a lad in Washington's > Olympia National Rainforest) and David Mann's "Wet Feet", which is > near perfection (and by "near" I mean "I wonder if the use of a > polarizing filter might have made it just a wee bit closer to > perfection"). Lovely images, everyone! > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
