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Nothing gold can stay
Image Title:  Nothing gold can stay
 
 By: Carsten Ranke  
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Photographer Carsten Ranke {K:14453}
Project #16 Poetry in Pictures Camera Model Canon 300D
Categories Landscape
Nature
Alternative Process
Film Format
Portfolio Landscape
Lens EF-S 10-22 mm
Uploaded 11/12/2005 Film / Memory Type IBM Microdrive 1 GB
    ISO / Film Speed 0
Views 441 Shutter 1/60
Favorites Aperture f/5.6
Critiques 40 Rating
5.81
/ 18 Ratings
Location City -  Mariazell
State - 
Country - Germany   Germany
About Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
(Robert Frost)

Technically, I tried to "expose to the right" with a (handheld) bracketing series, landscape format @ 10 mm, that is 16 mm in film terms. To get 100 deg FOV in a square format, I stitched two landscape TIFFs with PtGui vertically. The upper / lower half TIF was each a composite of RAWs exposed for the highlights/ shadows, midtones (because of handheld induced shift, stitched with nearly 100% overlap in PtGui), to compensate the wide dynamic range of the scene, I wanted detail in the sky and shadows.
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There are 40 Comments in 1 Pages
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Batool (Beacon)   {K:2206} 11/12/2005
Very good perspective! Great tones!
Beacon


Sergio M. Cameno   {K:7622} 11/12/2005
Great perspective shot! I like the light at the end of the road. Good work!
Congrats!


Burak Tanriover   {K:16604} 11/12/2005
Excellent perspective
I like also the lighting,
best wishes


Shane O'Neill   {K:3064} 11/12/2005
great lead in lines .. the wide angled distortion has worked well to suck the eye in here ..


patrizio napolitano   {K:13119} 11/12/2005
compliments!!!!!
a very beautiful and suggestive image
big depth and definition
excellent the colors
patrizio


Carsten Ranke   {K:14453} 11/12/2005
Sergio, thank you for pointing out the light @ the end of the road. It was indeed this lighting what caused me to stop my biking and take a shot. With this FOV, it is quite small, but... kind of icing on the cake, IMO


a. gianfranco baccelli   {K:19315} 11/12/2005
Beautiful effect! I like the ipnotic perspective.
Is this a magic wood? :-)
Ciao.


Don Price   {K:1376} 11/12/2005
Hi Carsten, glad to see you back posting... another great images, great job on a very tough exposure.
Don


FERDINAND DOTREMONT   {K:6539} 11/12/2005
Excellent work! I like the composition: all lines go to the middle of the picture.
Kind regards


Paul Lara   {K:77040} 11/12/2005
This is outstanding dynamic range Carsten, and completely invisible in the photo.
From the deep shadows under the trees to the cloudy sky above, all exposure zones are perfect! Your work paid off.


Alison Du Flon   {K:35633} 11/12/2005
What a great shot Carsten, I love the perspective and the way The bits of green along the road are leading us into color and the light at the end. Alison


David Hofmann   {K:23827} 11/12/2005
Ahhh! Heimat!


Rosario Esposito   {K:9796} 11/12/2005
Beautiful, optimal perspective the much depth. Congratulations. Good bye


osvaldo rima   {K:6862} 11/12/2005
Perfect work, Carsten....
My compliments!!?
Ciao
Os


Rina     {K:26519} 11/12/2005
OMG... this is brilliant on so many levels.

Glad you've posted again. Missed gazing at your work with my morning coffee :)

Cheers
Rina


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 11/12/2005
Hi Carsten,

impressive panoramo as always. I love that strong textures in the middle and the bended look of the trees on the right. all in all great detail and awesome perspective.

best wishes,
Thilo


Kiarang Alaei   {K:47971} 11/12/2005
Wow, perfect. one of the best works in Perspective & lines.you are lucky and talented!


ricardo longhi-frantz   {K:9648} 11/12/2005
wow!!! great nature view showed here!!! amazing perspective! most effective! loved the rich hues and delicate shadows in the trees and the terrific details in the foreground! the light in the very center is amazing!

by the way, i was already missing you here! good to see your pictures again!


Endre Novak   {K:12534} 11/12/2005
Very nice work, great effect.
Congrats.
Endre


eugenio intini   {K:5} 11/12/2005
fantastik as usuall


Carlos Santos   {K:516} 11/13/2005
amazing capture!
looks like the road is endless.....
loved it,
Carlos.


Debarshi Duttagupta   {K:25205} 11/13/2005
Excellent shot Carsten.


Fabio Ficola   {K:10466} 11/13/2005
Carsten thanks again for revealing your secrets for this amazing image.

I've to keep experimenting your suggestions and perhaps once have something worth showing on UF.

best congrats. -Fabio-


Jason v.d.Meer   {K:1792} 11/13/2005
awsome Carsten. Germany was one of our favoutite places on the holiday. would def like to spend more time there. this is another perfect stitch, if only i knew half of what you do!


Mort Gage   {K:2740} 11/13/2005
terrific!


Don Loseke   {K:32494} 11/13/2005
A beautiful scene Carsten. From here to Eternity.. Nice work. Don.


Ameed El-Ghoul   {K:42000} 11/13/2005
Carsten, Everytime I see a picture for you I learn something new, thanks allot for sharing the How to, I really like it, you really know how to turn a simply picture a peace of art, very well composed and captured,
7 all the way dear,
Regards,


Chris Spracklen   {K:32552} 11/13/2005
Just amazing quality and composition, Carsten!
Technically it's way beyond me, but the end result is magnificent!
Well done, my friend! Keep amazing us!
Best regards, Chris


Ursula Luschnig   {K:21869} 11/13/2005
Tolle Wirkung mir ist ganz schwindlig...vom hinschauen und vom about! Die Blätter vorne haben einen richtigen Zoom Effekt...großartig!
VG,Ursula


Peter Houtmeyers   {K:3519} 11/14/2005
Another seamless photo Carsten! The distortion this lens gives kinda pulls your eyes into the frame. Some photographers would try to avoid this phenomenom....but i like this a lot.


Zeev Scharf   {K:24572} 11/15/2005
Wow Carsten !!!
Beautiful capture,superb perspecive,the lighting in the end of the road is magnificent
To my favs.
Many thanks for nice words on "Inside a grotto"
Best regards


Roger Williams   {K:81877} 11/15/2005
This is a very creative use of PTGui, which I use more conventionally for panoramas. I would say your digital darkroom skills are already far advanced. More than that, though, the final image is truly arresting.


philip robinson   {K:225} 11/16/2005
bravo..


Jeanette Hägglund   {K:59778} 11/17/2005
Congrats Carsten, this is masterly done!!!! To read your about about the technique are very interesting and i start to wonder what your profession is....
I like the sharpness of the leaves on the ground and the FACT that all leaves are laying there in same direction, as pointing foward - keep on walking :) Further on i can see that it?s lighter, a hole in the clouds maby.... Wonderful combination of colours, technique and beautiful and moody nature at the fall!!!!

Jeanette


Antonia BauerleinSehnert   {K:29955} 11/20/2005
Glorious. I love the rich colors and details, and the perspective is fantastic. Wonderful wonderful job Carsten. Antonia


György Szönyi   {K:8347} 11/21/2005
Technically perfect, as usually. I like the composition because of the strick symmetry of the road and at the wide lower section as if the fallen leaves are whirling toward the center of the picture, also dragging the gaye of the viewer. And what a beautiful Robert Frost poem, thanks for sharing, Carsten. György


György Szönyi   {K:8347} 11/21/2005
Technically perfect, as usually. I like the composition because of the strict symmetry of the road and at the wide lower section as if the fallen leaves are whirling toward the center of the picture, also dragging the gaze of the viewer with themselves. And what a beautiful Robert Frost poem, thanks for sharing, Carsten. György
(Sorry for the spelling mistakes in the previous version.)


andree lerat   {K:16731} 11/28/2005
Wonderful symmetry. Perfect exposure and post processing. :) Andree


Mary Brown   {K:67308} 1/24/2006
You did a lot of work and I don't quite understand it all. Howeer, I do know that I really like your result. The bronze coloured path leading off into the unknown distance or futuren makes a beautiful and effective composition.
Mary


Mary Brown   {K:67308} 1/24/2006
You did a lot of work and I don't quite understand it all. Howeer, I do know that I really like your result. The bronze coloured path leading off into the unknown distance or futuren makes a beautiful and effective composition.
Mary


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