[rollei_list] Panorama
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 18:00:56 -0400
Hi all,
Check out
<http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/.Pictures/WinterExperimentalFarm-2-
20.jpg>.
It's a panorama made from three Velvia 50 slides automatically stitched
together by *Photoshop Elements*. The slides were taken this past
winter - January or February, I forget which - at the Government of
Canada, Ministry of Agriculture Experimental Farm which is very near
where I live. (The Farm is right in the middle of the city - a bit of
an anomaly for a city as large as Ottawa, with over a million
inhabitants!) The fields are, of course, covered with snow, but you can
see some stubble - maybe corn stalks - from the previous harvest,
poking out through the snow here and there.
The day was heavily overcast, which explains the almost-black-and-white
hue of the picture, despite the highly saturated Velvia 50 film. (I
tried converting the panorama to pure B&W in *Photoshop Elements*, but
looking at the result I decided that a very *slight* tinge of colour
added an aesthetic quality to the picture somewhat.) The exposure was
guesstimated by me without the help of an exposure meter (if memory
serves - though I am afraid these days it doesn't serve me too well - I
guessed the exposure as EV=10). The aperture was, again relying upon my
failing memory, f/8. The Rolleiflex was on a tripod (attached without
the help of a Rolleifix or panorama head, I'm afraid - I haven't got
either of those yet, though I am in the market for them), and of course
I used a cable release.
The original is, of course, extraordinarily sharp, since the size of
the three slides put together is almost as large, in the long
dimension, as a single 4x5. (There was however LOTS of overlap between
the slides). And, of course we're talking about a Xenotar taking lens,
stopped down to f/8 or thereabouts. Sharp as a razor.
I intend to get the picture printed some day professionally on ink-jet,
with the width of the final picture 16 inches, and the length whatever
it comes out to - probably 26 to 28 inches. Will cost me a fortune, but
I think it's worth the expense. (My *Photoshop Elements* hasn't done a
perfect job with the stitching of the panorama - you can see where the
road dips a bit towards the left - so the picture will have to be
tweaked a little by hand first, before the final printing. But that's
no big deal, with Photoshop.)
What do you think? Comments, whether positive or negative, are always
welcome.
Cheers!
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