Waterfall shots

[johnd]

I took a few shots the other day with D70, 50mm f1.4 lens, cpl and photomerged them. I was quite pleased with the results except for the blown highlights in the portrait one. Just too much dynamic range.

Comments most welcome.






Cheers
John

[rokkstar]

First one does it for me John. I'm a sucker for long exposures of waterfalls, and a sucker for panoramic format. Love them. Nice job

[spartikus]

The first one for me as well, John - the palm overhanging in front of the second shot takes a bit away from it, but the lovely contrast in colours is great!

[WadeM]

first one for me, much better colours!

Would of been a fun shoot!

Thanks,
--Wade

[Hlop]

John,

First one will do for me. Did you bracket it? What was the difference in exposures? 1 stop? More? Less?

[darb]

beaut shots

[johnd]

Thanks for the feedback all. It was an interesting experiment.
First part of the expirement was taking landscape shots with a 50mm prime lens rather than something with a wider angle.
The second part was to make multiple exposures and stitch them together to give something that I could print pretty big without loosing quality.

The cpl really makes a difference with waterfalls. The same shots without a cpl a few weeks back were very ordinary.

Both the images are from the same group of 17 exposures, panning across the waterfall in 3 groups of 5 or 6. The bottom group of 6 exposures made the panorama. 5 exposures from the bottom group and 5 from the top group made the portrait. I didn't need the middle group of exposures as there was enough overlap between the top and bottom groups.

No bracketing. All 17 exposures taken at f5.6, 1.3 secs, raw, manual, AF, cpl.

The auto focus was a bit of a problem, making it difdicult to stitch the left hand images. The next time I go back, I'm going to try autofocus on the central part of the waterfall then change to manual, so all exposures will have identical focus.

It was a lot of fun doing it and I intend printing them and if they look OK, printing them big. The panorama ended up 6000pix X 3000pix, so I hope to be able to print it up to 30" wide without loosing any quality.


Cheers
John

[Jenno]

Excellent shots John - Postcard material
Like 'em both.
Where is the waterfall?

Ray

[meicw]

Great shots, both of them. They both capture the 'feel' of the rain forest.

Regards
Meicw

[johnd]

Where is the waterfall?

Ray

Ray, it's a few minutes drive from Hobart, on the slopes of Mt Wellington.

Tasmania has got some fantastic scenery. I'm slowly getting around it with my D70 at the ready.

Cheers
John

[mudder]

G'day John,
Wow, these are great. Heavy sat, love the framing of the fern in the second, they look like they'd blow up really well detailed and sharp with great colour.

I like pano's and a sucker for water shots, this is terrific, which s/w package did you use? By photomerge do you mean CS (or CS2) etc?

Cheers.

[johnd]

which s/w package did you use? By photomerge do you mean CS (or CS2) etc?

G'day Andrew. I used CS2. Just got it the olther day. I'm going to try the same panorama in Panorama Factory to see if there's any difference.

Cheers
John

[ozimax]

Wonderful pano John (1st one), I think this one is outstanding, you must have a monster computer to muscle up enough power to do this pano from RAW files?

Max

[PiroStitch]

Def. the first pano does it for me too All thumbs up

[mic]

Portrait for me,

Top shot.

[Catcha]

The second one would look better if you the branch was not in the way