oooooooo, Ann shame!!! Jack
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[email protected]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 12:55:13 PM Subject: Re: April PUG - Panorama - Now Up and when you share your crops you are therfore ... wait for it... a -cropsharer- ! let the groaner puns begin - or rather continue from Pan O-rama ann On 4/14/2015 14:59, Jack Davis wrote: > You got great value for your "2 cents" Ann. > I do keep both stitching (and stacking) in mind for some day...maybe.(?) > > > Jack (A cropper) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:48:07 AM > Subject: Re: April PUG - Panorama - Now Up > > And yet your favorite (and one of mine) is _not_ a true panorama > according to your definition - David mentioned this in one of his > posts.. :-) > > The thing is some of us don't shoot panoramas or care about stitching > to get that extra wide view but do care about supporting the PUG... > OTOH now and then I have taken a photo that needed cropping top and > bottom to make a better composition... the only way anyone would know it > isn't a pan is if they knew what equipment I was using to get it, right? > > just 2 cents > ann > > > > On 4/14/2015 00:01, Darren Addy wrote: >> It's a nice gallery with many wonderful images but, at the risk of >> being pedantic, I must say that I feel that a large percentage of them >> are not panoramas (if we are using the term in the traditional >> photographic sense and not simply as a synomym of "a vista". A true >> panorama results in a wide aspect ratio, but a wide aspect ratio does >> not necessarily make a panorama. A panorama is created in one of two >> ways: >> 1) by stitching together two or more exposures (ideally made by >> pivoting around the lenses nodal point) that results a a Field of View >> wider than would have been possible with a wide lens on the normal >> film/sensor format. >> 2) by the use of a lens with the Field of View (and image circle) of a >> larger format, used on a smaller format film/sensor. (As in a 5x7 film >> capable 90mm lens being used in conjunction with a 120 film format in >> the Fuji G617/GX617. Another example might be a strip of 35mm film >> exposed in 6x7 camera with a 6x7 lens. >> >> Shooting in true panorama fashion can be a real challenge, both in the >> taking and the making of the image. Not so with merely cropping a >> traditional image into a panorama-imitating aspect ratio. Perhaps I >> was reading too much into the theme of "Panorama" and thus my >> expectations are out of line. If so, I apologize. But I have a real >> appreciation for real panoramas, and I was let down by a significant >> percentage of the images in this gallery. That being said, I made no >> submission myself, feeling that I had not made a true panorama in >> quite a while. >> >> All of that being said, my favorite images were Ken Waller's "Denali >> Falls" (the only vertical image of the entire gallery and an image >> that reminds me of one I took while hiking as a lad in Washington's >> Olympia National Rainforest) and David Mann's "Wet Feet", which is >> near perfection (and by "near" I mean "I wonder if the use of a >> polarizing filter might have made it just a wee bit closer to >> perfection"). Lovely images, everyone! >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
