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Jim Murray
{K:738} 4/7/2006
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How's it going, Roger?
I like your second version of this shot best because it looks like you corrected the exposure in the middle part of the picture. Also, I was wondering if you tried this same scene at different times of the day. I'm guessing this is morning. I wonder what it would look like in late afternoon light.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/7/2006
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Yes, Thilo, I can see what you mean. Rina's suggestion of bringing the crop down to the top of the power lines slightly unbalances the image, reducing the area of the sky, and so helps reduce the static feeling, I think. Usefilm is great for such suggestions, isn't it!
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Ian V
{K:1730} 4/7/2006
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Great shot Roger! love the perspective, I enjoy your framing and placement of the power lines, I also like the reflection of the sign in the water, nice exposure adswell as color.
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Thilo Bayer
{K:50358} 4/6/2006
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Hi Roger,
a very effective and extreme pano, but I like extreme pictures =) I think a potential problem lies within the split between the sky and the foreground. It looks a bit unbalanced or too static to me.
best wishes,
Thilo
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 4/6/2006
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I liked your creative 'goofing around' composition best but I must say that these vertical panoramas are wonderful Roger. It is so frustrating that our eyes 'see' a composition and yet the lens doesn't always capture our view. Well we know there is no better lens than the human eye and we get on with the camera's best interpretation. I think you've done well here my friend.....Cheers....Ray
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/6/2006
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Yes, Rina, I think it's cool to concentrate on the pylons alone, especially when you have a beautiful blue sky behind them as you do here. I took one a while ago, looking up from someone's garden... (not a place I'd like to have a house) but the sky was white, so I went to B&W. The image ID is 1019930.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/6/2006
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Well, Rina, I haven't tried SQUARE yet, as my MF 6 x 6 camera is terminally sick, but I have tried ordinary 35mm portrait and landscape, AND some normal panoramas. This was a desperate last throw. I must try stitching a couple of these tall narrow panos, though. Neat idea...
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 4/6/2006
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Oh, also, those powerlines reminded me of a shot I took a while ago. Was about mid morning, the sky was as blue and clear as in your image, so I did a perspective shot. I've attached it for you. The settings I had were: f11 - 1/500. Not different to yours by much...
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 4/6/2006
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Yup, that's exactly what I meant. Though I'm not too sure it's made much difference, now that I look at it. How do you feel about it now? I mean it is only a small crop and probably won't alleviate your disappointment with the capture as a whole.
I guess in this instance, you're trying to show how you feel about a scene, but only allowing a view through a 'narrow window'. While changing the exposure may give you colour, maybe using a wide angle will give you the mood...? You could still have a vertical format, just take two horizontal shots and stitch them vertically. Though that will give you a more square format rather than a pano.
Ok, now I'm starting to confuse myself! Am I making sense to you? :)
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/6/2006
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Hi again, Rina. Is this something like what you had in mind? (I did some creative goofing off...)
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/6/2006
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Thanks, Rina. I think you've put your finger on the spot... I thought about darkening it, but the water at the bottom is already pretty dark. Hmmmm. I guess I could selectively darken the upper half. I'm not much with PhotoShop, though. Those colours do look a bit pale... I like your crop suggestion, too. I'm at the office now, but will play with cropping when I get home this evening. My unhappiness is basically that nothing I've ever taken here captures how I FEEL about this view. I really like it, but all the pictures end up looking humdrum. Maybe I'm expecting too much!
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 4/6/2006
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Roger, what *I* think would make an improvement is perhaps a change in exposure. Maybe speeding up the shutter would do the trick?? I believe making the image a little less bright would help to bring out richer colours. Since I'm not familiar with film speed, not sure how appropriate this suggestion is.
As for composition, you have a great zig-zaggy lead in, so I wouldn't necessarily alter position or angle in order to conform to any rules (whatever they are  ). The only suggestion I would make is to crop the top down to the uppermost powerline on the left. My thinking is that this may accentuate the diagonal enter/exit flow that reccurs through the image.
Having said all that, my question to you is - what is it that YOU'RE not happy with??
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/5/2006
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Thanks for the encouragement, Gabriela. I've tried so often to capture this scene (there are probably half a dozen attempts just at Usefilm) and usually I try to get the breadth of this flat scene in. This time I thought I'd go contrariwise and get a vertical slice with a wider range of variety. I'm glad you liked it. Nice blue sky, anyway...
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Gabriela Tanaka
{K:16594} 4/5/2006
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Dear Roger, you may not be satisfied with it, but I LIKE IT!A panorama on the vertical....quite the original! I've been trying hard to get me that kind of electricity pole, but....it eludes me!
Good idea this shot!!!
Gabriela
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/4/2006
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Dear Galal: thank you. I used to take almost as many vertical panoramas as horizontal, but recently I have been using a technique that doesn't lend itself to the vertical format. If you would like to see more, click on my name and then select my "Panorama" folder and go back to a year or so ago. There are lots, and sometimes the result is both unusual and happy! (Or you may notice the occasional tall narrow photo in those "random photos" that appear on the right...)
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 4/4/2006
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Thank you Paulo. Actually it isn't a crop... this is the shape of the negative that I get with this camera! (I quite like these long narrow "panoramas.")
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Paolo Corradini
{K:59552} 4/4/2006
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unusual crop for this industrial image interesting document.
greetings
PAOLO
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Galal El Missary
{K:84569} 4/4/2006
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Dear Roger , this is the first time i see vertical panorama shot , i like it , very well taken .
Galal
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