Fall Panorama

This is from some woods only a few hundred yards from a friend's

house. One nice thing about fall color is that you may not have to

go very far to find it (much harder to find, say, good hoodoo

pictures close to home in New England).

 

I haven't tried stitching together panoramas before, and this one

has a couple flaws, but it's gotten me pretty excited about the

possibilities. This is possibly a little dark, what do y'all

think? Does the extra wide stretch here enhance the view?

 

Tech: it's four images stitched together. Having the dark vertical

lines of the trees made it easier to make up for the weaknesses of

limited stitching experience and doing this directly in Photoshop

instead of with Panavue or something.

Great sharp and colors. But, where is the rest of photo? I'm joking, wonderful idea. 6/6

outstanding. shoot this exact scene in all four seasons and you'd have a gorgeous collection.

The colours are nice and the exposure decent, but I don't see anything in the subject matter that pulls my eye through the composition ... i wind up not knowing where to look ... hence the "average" rating from me. maybe if there were a path curving between the trees, a child in a colourful outfit so that they contrasted with the autumn colours, or one tree that stood out somehow from the rest (either a really red maple, or a dark green spruce in the middle of the fall colours). There is a clump of trees smack dab in the middle that helps a litte, but there's too much competition for the eye from the other nearer trees.

 

As for panoramas, it's a good job, especially if you're doing it manually! For me, the main trick is to take several meter readings across the area you plan to expose, decide on what you want for exposure (average across whole scene, or light/dark to bring out features of interest). Then shoot all images with the same exposure ... this makes stitching easier later. Looks like you already did that though, or you spent a lot of time balancing the colours.

Nice job, Marshall. I rather like the image with its strong verticals which lend a bit of order to the chaos of the foliage.

Derek - Yeah, I guess I knew I didn't have a strong center of interest for the shot (it's more about depth than focus, if you will), so perhaps that holds it back a little. I did take all the images at the same exposure. After getting the slides back, I think it'd should have been 1/3-1/2 stop higher, but I guess I didn't feel like bracketing too much across 4 shots...

I can see the forest through the trees.  I like it and the contrast between the dark tree trunks and the soft tones of the leaves pull me into the scene.  I want to go further and explore.  Thank You for sharing