Rolf, you made me think today ...

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2591 Location: Austria

Rolf showed a landscape photograph today
(from his todays morning walk) which made me think.
It was done at f5.6 ... the reflections in the lake
got a nice soft bokeh-touch which I liked a lot
I realized I heardly ever use wide appertures
for landscapes, it's just a stupid habbit.
Further I thought how to combine wide
appertures use with panorama technic to
reach results which would not be possible with
standard wide angle primes.

shortly: my idea was to take a portrait lens with a
very wide apperture. Another need: it has to be
razorsharp at it's open position, though still useable
for landscape purposes wide open. all the frames
of the pano are shot wide open. the scene should
be captured in a normal windeangle view.
The outcome is a (about) 20mm shot with a
apperture wich is normally not possible,
cause of lens-apperture-limitations and
without lens distortions.

here's the result of my evenings-walk from today ...

- lens: SMC Tak 50/1.4
- all frames ( 8 ) of the pano shot wide open

I can imagine that the effect would be much bigger
if I would have gone closer to the trees and if Pentax
would have finally a fullframe camera Smile

Cheers
Tobias

spleenone · Joined: 26 Dec 2009 Posts: 1135 Location: Slovakia

VOU! I must admit my envy coz I would like to shot something like this but in my surroundings is flat country Confused

Beauty.

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

Curious, a lot of people seems to be discovering this technique these days.
Another member came to this discovery some days ago. Maybe the tutorial published some days ago on Facebook's Photoshop page has something to do with it? Wink

Your pano are always the top of what we see on this forum, Tobbsman, but in this case, I don't like much the blurred trees in the foreground. The technique may prove still useful sometimes for landscapes, but maybe with different subjects, where the blurred objects are better lit and not so prominent to occupy 1/3rd of the picture space.

Nikos · Expire: 2015-01-02

I think the biggest advantage of using a standard lens to
shoot the equivalent angle of a wide lens, is that you get
the perspective of the normal lens.

You can compress the distance and put emphasis on the distant objects.
And minimize distortion of course.

The following panorama (3 rows by 3 cols) was shot at 70mm.
Had I used a 24mm lens, the Acropolis would be almost invisible.

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2591 Location: Austria

thanks for the reactions !

Himself · Expire: 2013-05-30

Tobias, that landscape around you is breathtaking!

timo832000 · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 545 Location: Germany / Cologne

Hi Tobbsman it`s an interesting idea to use the bokeh pano tec to capture a landscape. I was playing with this on the last days too but I doscovered the mentioned facebook page after I made my first tests.

Here is the thread I started a few days ago:

http://forum.mflenses.com/how-to-get-an-interesting-look-and-shallow-dof-t32507.html

http://forum.mflenses.com/vintage-porsche-bokeh-pano-t32960.html

Timo

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2591 Location: Austria

hey thanks timo for the links, ... cool experiment with the women portrait, looks interresting.

I will for sure make more experiments on large-scale landscapes.
Bokeh pano is great for near objects, but with landscape scenes it could probably give a lot new to discover. Especially with the idea of using them very open. Unfortunately my SMC 50/1.2 is too soft to use for landscapes wide open, so the only lens in my possession is the 50/1.4 which gives some bokeh too and wich is really sharp wide open.

here some "normal" bokeh panos which I made last year (with close objects though, or just a tele lens):

Cheers
Tobias

ylyad · Expire: 2013-12-05

That last one is amazing! And I love your place Wink

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2591 Location: Austria

thanks ylyad Very Happy

Cheers
Tobias

pich900 · Expire: 2012-12-27

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

super photos Tobias,
the last one is simply WOW

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2591 Location: Austria

hoi pascal

here it is with higher resolution:

Cheers
Tobias

pich900 · Expire: 2012-12-27

Thanks Tobias, it shoud be an amazing poster to set on the wall Shocked

....
I would like to make a reservation in this house for my next vacation, could you arrange that for me Laughing

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rpo83 · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:59 pm Post subject:

Stunning shot Tobias,

I have recently taken landscape shots with the foreground in focus and the distance OOF, but i had never thought about doing a pano with this technique! You have given me something new to try out.. Very Happy

Nikos · Expire: 2015-01-02

The panorama with the flowers (daisies?) close-up is exciting!

Tobias, sooner or later, I will pay you a visit... There is no escape!
It seems you are a great hiker. You can see the backpack in my avatar...

tobbsman · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 2591 Location: Austria

@pich900

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