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Okay, so I didn’t take the opportunity to take just one picture of the fields out at Grace’s grandfather’s farm. This is another picture, done in the same style as the previous one, looking a little more toward toward the West.

As before, the picture you see here is actually a panoramic — or, at least, a stitched shot. I used my 50 mm lens to capture the initial images that comrpise these photos, and then stitched the source photos together using Hugin. While it doesn’t present a very wide view overall, unlike a “true” panoramic might, the picture does present a much higher quality of detail within its frame than the equivanelt shot would if I had used my 17-85 mm lens.

Of course, Hugin almost never turns out a perfectly rectangular image, and in this case that was doubly true because I had to drop two source photos out of the final render because they were out of focus. That meant, in turn, that I had to draw in part of the sky with Photoshop after the fact. It didn’t turn out all that great, but I am getting better at using that program, and in a print there’s really nothing that the eye can see that would suggest I’ve tampered with the picture.

Incidentally, in both cases, the portion of the sky I tampered with was in the upper-right part of the image. Here, I even had to draw in the last few wisps of that one cloud that pokes itself out into the blue. The “Smudge” tool was particularly useful for that.

Of the two, I prefer this shot — the interplay of shadow and light is better.

~ by Kenneth on February 18, 2008.