Cem_Usakligil
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... and everything's well.
Cheers,
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Just checked, my camera's time is 2 minutes ahead of the reality so it was actually 10:36 pm. The church tower was two minutes behind apparently..... Looks more like 10:34, LOL!
And before you ask, yes we took pictures of the windmills too; both wide and close-up.
Here's an impression from earlier that night, just as the sun was setting.
It's part (3-4 tiles) of a wider (5 tiles) stitched panorama taken with the TS-E 24mm f/3.5 II lens (used without T/S). IBart,
Excellent balance getting nothing central but a string of iconic windmills in a novel composition. Everything seems well placed. This is most enjoyable. Printing will take advantage of all the detail you must have for drawing the foreground water, the lilac flowers on the right bank and the ? floating leaves etc. It's these features that will finally "make" the picture and give it the presence to draw one into this really splendid tableau.
How much adjustment did you so in the stitching program and which one?
Asher
That's nice Bart
a good tick befor sun went down....
How comes, that a 3 - 4 vert-stitch with a 24 mm hasn't the extrem left and right sides (distortion)? That must be 120 degs....
This one is much later in the evening when it was as dark as it gets in Holland (curses to the light pollution, sigh). Two of the lighted windmills...This is taken at Kinderdijk, Holland; a world heritage site of 19 old wind mills. Bart and I went there last night to picture the windmills which are floodlighted with led lamps during the night just for a couple of weeks during this time of the year. There are many ducks, geese, swans and other species of birds to be seen; during the day and at night. Photographing them at night is a bit more difficult though. And before you ask, yes we took pictures of the windmills too; both wide and close-up.
Bart,
Excellent balance getting nothing central but a string of iconic windmills in a novel composition. Everything seems well placed. This is most enjoyable. Printing will take advantage of all the detail you must have for drawing the foreground water, the lilac flowers on the right bank and the ? floating leaves etc. It's these features that will finally "make" the picture and give it the presence to draw one into this really splendid tableau.
How much adjustment did you so in the stitching program and which one?
Thanks Bart for the exposition. It makes me feel more comfortable that I'm not myself doing more work than necessary. Sometimes I wonder whether everyone else takes a lot of effort, and I can see you do. I like the idea of using Photomatix for the moving people. I guess you mark them in each picture?
There is no substitute still for the human brain to use these tools. There's no "auto" yet for this, thank goodness!
What is lacking in Autopano Pro to do this in one go as it does take bracketed shots and does the equalizing of exposure and color across the junctions?
Cem and Bart...I love such images..postcard or not for their simplicity and elegance and they also remind me of the great masters whose works hang in the museums in Amsterdam.
However, I need to learn more about shooting this time of the day/evening/night. what are the common iso that you folks use. it would appear that you go for dof and consequently smaller apertures..what values do you generally use? not for these pics but generally.
if you encounter noise in the shadows, how do you take care of it?
Thanks for sharing these, to me at least, scenes from Holland.