Down the Harbour

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

Want to show a shot from yesterdays
experimenting with wide open panoramas.

town of Zell am See - harbour
the tourist-ship in the background just arriving Wink

- 30 shots
- SMC K 50/1.4
- wide open use @1.4
- handheld

I still don't feel comfortably in shooting these type of panos, ... they're
somehow unpredictable in the outcome.
Whilst with "normal" (small apperture) panorama I mostly know how the final
result will render, I am very unsure with these wide open ones.

the heavy OOF makes it very unpredictable and so composing the
scene while shooting is a kind of roulette.
But that's also the kind of excitement that comes along with it, and makes it
though kind of addictive.

This shot has a rather impressionistic outcome due to it's large and heavy OOF area:
just interested what you think about it ...

here a large one to check the detail:

Thanks for C&C
Tobias

P.S.: please don't comment on stiching errors, I haven't corrected them yet

skida · Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:36 pm Post subject:

I don't like most panoramas, mainly because where I have seen them posted I have to scroll horizontally as they roll off my screen. I have been very impressed with your panos though, tobbsman. When you started posting "bokeh panoramas", I thought "What's the point of a great big wide picture if 95% of it is out of focus?", but I quite like this one, maybe because there is enough detail in the uncomplicated background to get a sense of location. One benefit of this image is the subject, being the only part focussed, looks really sharp and the 3D is more pronounced.

Interesting and thought provoking.

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

interesting and surely it has impact.

mo · Expire: 2016-07-30

I like it,keep persevering,experimenting with these panos. Very Happy

aspen · Expire: 2014-02-20

Just today, I was giving some thought to doing this also, and some of your panos came to mind (was trying to remember the lens/focal length that you use). I think that this can be really quite a complex puzzle. I was thinking that I would try to change the in-focus area, slightly, through either stopping down (and hope the reciprocity of shutter speed matches), or changing the throw of the focus. It's a challenge!!! I like this first attempt of yours, for sure.

SonicScot · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 8:15 am Post subject:

I really like what you've done here, so much so that I'm going to copy the idea for myself! Laughing

I think creations like this deserve to be on 8 feet wide canvas, preferably attached to my wall. Wink

poilu · Expire: 2019-08-29

Alternate Internet ID · Joined: 30 Mar 2011 Posts: 253 Location: UK

Love it.
I find landscape photography quite dull and uninteresting unless it's absolutely amazing.
This however, looks absolutely brilliant.

Nesster · Expire: 2014-02-20

The result is stunning! Shocked

I've tried this sort of thing, though I thought of it as 'recreating a mf/lf photo using aps-c' rather than as a panorama. And my results are nowhere as good as yours.

Nordentro · Expire: 2015-01-29

I think it's awesome, make's me wanne do some my self. Very Happy

patrickh · Expire: 2011-11-18

Great Tobias

patrickh

Katastrofo · Expire: 2013-11-19

I've always liked your lederhosen/alpenhorn pictures, the mountainscapes, but this has to be one of my
faves, Tobias! Cool

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2578 Location: Austria

Many many thanks you all your C&C's !

Haven't expected so many positive comments, because I am myself
not sure about most of the sense of this "technique".

exactly same thoughts as skida come to my mind when I am editing these panoramas:

Katastrofo · Expire: 2013-11-19

I know this is the C&C section, but can't fault this picture at all. Would look positively grand
blown up large on a wall in your new home!