Allt Coire Eoghainne

Would welcome any thoughts on this photo of Allt Coire Eoghainne,

Glen Nevis. Please view larger.

I love it. Beautifully composed shot of a beautiful place. Love the cropping and the neatness and quality. This would look great on the magazine 'outdoor photography' What was the shutterspeed?

Thanks Aleks for the very kind compliment! Getting some prints into Outdoor photography magazine is my ambition as i subscribe to the magazine but i thought i should work harder at building a better portfolio before i submitted anything. i imagine the competition is quite steep!

 

i just checked the metadata from the original files. The shutterspeed was 30 seconds for the forground, and 2 seconds for the bracketed shots to take account for the sun shining through the trees at the top of the frame. i think i mentioned that i was trying to mimick using a 0.6 ND grad but i guess this is more like a 4 stop difference (0.12)?

 

thanks again,

 

Ben

stunning in a very quiet calm way.

I just stumbled across your portfolio and I love what you are doing with your panos! You always see the vertical waterfalls with this silky look, but this is a real treat to see this cascade's long exposure in the horizontal format. One thing I must say from the start is that I really appreciate that you share what you are doing here with your images at PN.

 

On that note, I am curious though, did you shoot your six frames vertically or horizontally on this one? I saw that you stitched them but with the 30 sec exp for the foreground and 2 sec exp for the sunlit forest...I was curious as to how it matched up so well with the different exposures? Did you have a much larger original print and crop it down to this final image? Or did you do some manual blending on this one?

 

Just wanting to learn some new techniques and I just love the effort made here. Congrats again, Kristy :)

Hi Kristy,

 

Many thanks for your kind comments!

 

From memory (and habit) what I tend to do is shoot vertically and to bracket each frame before moving on. As this gully was quite sheltered the two exposures of each frame blended quite nicely (without mismatches from breezes etc). In this case I took two rows of six frames and then cropped the much larger file to this pano once stitched. I think the overall crop was the eqivalent of just doing one row of six in the end.

 

Hope this is helpful,

 

thanks again,

 

Ben