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Summer Day
Image Title:  Summer Day
 
 By: Carsten Ranke  
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Photographer Carsten Ranke {K:14453}
Project #41 Perspective Camera Model Canon 300D
Categories Landscape
Nature
From The Field
Film Format
Portfolio Landscape
Lens Canon  17-40 mm USM L
Uploaded 7/3/2005 Film / Memory Type IBM 1GB Microdrive
    ISO / Film Speed 0
Views 259 Shutter 1/60
Favorites Aperture f/8.0
Critiques 29 Rating
6.03
/ 10 Ratings
Location City -  Mariazell
State - 
Country - Germany   Germany
About A grain field I found along my bike tour today. To compensate dynamic range, I used a Heliopan 2 stop soft graduated ND plus a circular polarizer.
Handheld, made three RAW shots in landscape format, to stitch them vertically. Pano with Canons PhotoStitch software, a multiply blended gradient layer mask for the sky (50% opacity), and 30% soft light for the grain field for a bit more color contrast. Sharpening after resizing (original is about 12 MP)
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There are 29 Comments in 1 Pages
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Francesco Martini   {K:12304} 7/3/2005
Great!!!fantastic field!!!!


Fabio Ficola   {K:10466} 7/3/2005
Interisting views. Using your three shots, you managed a scene whole in focus with superb details on corn and poppies while leaving an incredible view on clouds.

Congrats. and thank you for sharing your secrets. Fabio.


Paul Lara   {K:80165} 7/3/2005
So THAT'S how you get a medium-format look!
This is outstanding, Carsten.


David Hofmann   {K:23830} 7/3/2005
the red flowers in the forground is the most beautiful thing for me here. Its the fagile little detail in the huge landscape.


Don Price   {K:1376} 7/3/2005
Good job, great image
Don


patrizio napolitano   {K:13119} 7/3/2005
bella e suggestiva immagine
patrizio


Rosario Esposito   {K:9796} 7/3/2005
Ottima definizione perfetti i colori,very nice.Compliments
-Rosario-


Don Loseke   {K:32503} 7/3/2005
Just beautiful. I like the extreme front to back detail. Such a great sky to go with everything. Wonderful work. Don.


Alison DuFlon   {K:36165} 7/4/2005
The details in this shot are amazing, I love the feel of the neverending field, and as your eye finally hits the horizon you are brought right back towards the front with those amazing clouds. The scattered poppies adds beautiful color to the shot. Alison


Lily     {K:11009} 7/4/2005
Just a touch of red color is very classy with the superbly detailed wheat scenery. More like a product of film than digital.

Trying to understand how much overlap there is in between the three shots that you stitched. May I ask roughly how many degrees you rotate the camera for each successive shot? Thank you. :)


FERDINAND DOTREMONT   {K:6587} 7/4/2005
Very beautiful colours and composition. Good work.
Congratulations.
Ferdinand


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 7/4/2005
Hi Carsten,

nice endless view here. I'm thinking about a lower angle to get more of the detailed sky into the picture. Just an idea though ;-)

nice color spots.

best wishes,
Thilo


sam khosravifard   {K:16153} 7/4/2005
attractive landscape and good defrent colors


Barry Wakelin   {K:7838} 7/4/2005
Lovely detail in the foreground and a nicely controlled sky. I see you're now combining filters and multi-exposures - interesting stuff.


Carsten Ranke   {K:14453} 7/4/2005
Lily, thank you for the great compliment, it would be great to reach the gold standard "film" with digital.
My panos are all handheld, with about 50% overlap (the angle depends on the lens, of course). A bit tricky, but with stitching software like Canons PhotoStitch or PanoTools and warping afterwards in PS you can manage small errors from slanting.

Regards

Carsten


Carsten Ranke   {K:14453} 7/4/2005
Thilo, thanks for stopping by !
Voilà - here is more sky ;-)

I like a "rule of third" a bit more. A matter of taste, ok.

Regards

Carsten



Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 7/4/2005
Hi Carsten,

I also like the third rule. ;-)

So my "wish" is to get a longer angle, make the image again and give the foreground 1/3 and the sky 2/3 ;-)

thx for the additional picture,
Thilo


Chris Spracklen   {K:32552} 7/4/2005
Fantastic field shot, Carsten!!
Wonderful clarity and detail in the foreground, along with great D.O.F.!! Superb, as ever!
Best regards, Chris


György Szönyi   {K:8347} 7/5/2005
Beautiful composition. And thanks for the explanation, one can really learn a lot from it. Best, Gy.


Mary Brown   {K:68553} 7/6/2005
I am sure I have mentioned before, Carsten, I don't understand your explanations of what you do with your shots. However, the results are dramatic and wonderful. This is vibrant and full of life. Superb.
Mary


Maja Gligoric   {K:13402} 7/7/2005
Nice composition


Zeev Scharf   {K:24824} 7/10/2005
Superb capture of this golden field Carsten,
the low angle shot is splendid ,the colours are gorgeus
Many thanks for nice comment on "What a valley"
My best regards


Antonia BauerleinSehnert   {K:30030} 7/10/2005
This one is really lovely and you've got the color just right. I'd prefer less sky (like your other), as this one is mostly about the beautiful foreground grains and flowers -- I want the focal point to remain there and the sky is distracting from that. So, can I give advice to my hero? :) Antonia


Carsten Ranke   {K:14453} 7/12/2005
Toni, thanks for constructive critique ;-)
Maybe you are right, the sky is not a winner @the top but it is hard to crop if you have spent much time with stitching that part in...

Cheers

Carsten


Gregory McLemore   {K:25298} 7/13/2005
Lovely vivid tones and sweeping beauty captured.


Jeanette Hägglund   {K:59985} 7/13/2005
Beautiful capture - excellent!

Jeanette


Frank Beer   {K:10112} 7/21/2005
Hübsches Feld, gefällt mir am besten aus der Serie.
Klasse Rottöne mit guter Wirkung.

Grüße
Frank


Chris Hunter   {K:25631} 8/1/2005
Technique and composition are both flawless...these stitch jobs must make for great quality large prints I wouls assume.

Cheers,
Chris


Istvan VARKONYI   {K:3770} 8/5/2005
Carsten,
Sehr schönes Bild. Komposition, Farben sind
sehr gut Afgebaut. Man spürt ohne Kommentar, dass
einige Überlegungen, rationelle Technik, know-how und lirische Esthetik steck hinter der Linsen! Mene höchste Anerkennung! Die Portfolio gefellt mir sehr, ich freue mich, dass wir uns durch usefilm kennegelernt haben. Mit Guss, Istvan


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