Caha Mountains, Cork/Kerry border (Canon 1Ds Mark 3)Back in the good old days when I was shooting slide film I owned a Hasselblad xpan, a beautiful camera that was able to produce panorama 24x65mm images and 24x35mm images on the same roll of film. Panorama photography ruled my world for a while.
Rock of Cashel, Co. Tipperary (Canon 1Ds Mark 2)When I switched to digital my panorama days were over. With resolutions of 6MP or 8MP crops were impossible. And as I am mainly working with long exposure times or under weather conditions with fast moving clouds and ever changing light stitching wasn't an option either.
Howth Harbour, County Dublin (Canon 1Ds Mark 3)Enter the Canon 1Ds Mark 2 and even better the 1Ds Mark 3. With resolutions of 16MP and 22MP panorama crops still have a satisfying quality even for bigger prints.
To keep the dimensions of my panoramas constant I put grid focusing screens in my cameras. When using the top and bottom line of the grid as image borders I get an aspect ratio of about 2.4:1 which is a bit wider than the Hasselblad xpan. The image is then cropped in Lightroom where the aspect ratio can be saved as a custom function. This is almost as easy and quick as working with a real panorama camera.
Bantry Bay, County Cork (Canon 1Ds Mark 3)So I am happily back in the panorama business. Sometimes it just has to be the wider view.
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Images are Copyright by Carsten Krieger - all rights reserved
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Images are Copyright by Carsten Krieger - all rights reserved
1 comments:
I can only envy a man who visited such place and had to pleasure to capture them (as panoramas :))
Magnificent works. Thanks for sharing
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