http://www.rgaphoto.com/sierras/content/Pano-HitePano1-HiteCove-MASTER2-CF000666_large.html
Better? Click "Next" to see the first one. Further/other suggestions? I'm
sending this to a couple of forest service folks who were on the trail and
wanted to see it for possible use on their website.
Thanks for the help!!
Bob
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Agreed. I think it looks better with a 3x2 crop with the image starting
> from the top and the crop lopping off the bottom.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 3/23/2013 9:04 AM, Don Holbrook wrote:
> > Looking at this with snow spitting here! You worked to get this one.
> If I look at it with the bottom third cut off, I can see everything
> flowing to the right.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Group Leica Users <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Olympus Camera Discussion <
> olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:39:50 -0000 (UTC)
> > Subject: [OM] IMG: Poppy Bloom
> >
> > I expected to see Dorothy asleep in the grass, though she and her
> companions would have rolled down the hill into the Merced River long ago.
> >
> > This was Hite Cove Trail today. Left home at 5:45am and returned at
> 7:30pm. 4hr drive each way. Just to the west of El Portal Gate into
> Yosemite.
> >
> > The wildflower bloom here is very rare and only lasts a few days. Last
> one I saw was 5 or 6 years ago, and I look out for word of it every year.
> It is a one person foot path about 500 feet above the Merced river. The
> hills, which this shot show, continue up at the same 125 degrees that they
> slope downward. The tripod had two legs at their shortest uphill and one
> leg full extended on the side of the path so folks could get by. I actually
> got scolded once for "not staying on the path". There is always a flower
> Nazi somewhere... ;-)
> >
> > Anyway, tough shooting physically (MFDB, precarious, sunny 16, no room
> to move) and mentally ("there HAS to be an image here somewhere!). The wind
> did not cooperate much either.
> >
> > Well enough excuses. Here's the only image from the day that is
> passable. I plan to refine it if it grows on me. Your thoughts/suggestions
> would be really appreciated.
> >
> >
> http://www.rgaphoto.com/sierras/content/Pano-HitePano1-HiteCove-MASTERCF000666_large.html
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
> >
> > Oh yes, techie stuff: Alpa MAX with a 50mm Rodegon in portrait
> orientation, 7 degress lens tilt, ISO 50, polarizing filter, 1/125, 3
> blended images (shifted 10 deg left, center and 10deg right). Phase One
> IQ160. That's a lot for some freaking flowers that I could have lost it all
> for!
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
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