and when you share your crops you are therfore ... wait for it... a
-cropsharer- !
let the groaner puns begin - or rather continue from Pan O-rama
ann
On 4/14/2015 14:59, Jack Davis wrote:
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!
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