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Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Enjoy.

Thanks Mark. I'll clean the foreground a bit more. In the improved version, I already increased the contrast selectively per suggestions above.

 

Although the view was impressive, it surely wasn't the most impressive view I saw during this hike. Yet, it takes a lot to translate the experience of being there into above average print. This is one of the difficult ones. Not because it is stitched from 7 shots, but I was not careful in my exposures. It made my stitching job an order of more difficult. how I wish to go back in time and do it all over again. In fact this goes to other set of images captured during this hike. Admittedly, I was not thinking clearly that day.

 

ok, I admit, i'm especially weak on recognizing jokes when it comes to lens, camera or software. I saw many times, folks actually comment on the tools being used rather then the results. I'm glad that you are not one of them. It irritates me to think that an art work should be judged with and through the tools used to make it.

Nadya,

I can't remember its name, but i think this is the last lookout before the road heads to river.

I went to the same spot last year again, due to trees, I could no longer see the same wide view, I am sure it is even more limited this year.

 

 

Sensor and lens were clean. Everything you see here is intentional.

I don't believe a clear view of mountains is necessary for the composition to work.

 

Thanks for comments and suggestions,

that is a nice praise for my work Major. In fact, i appreciate that more than other praises for my landscape work involving some other well-known figures.

thanks,

Aurel,

 

I can't say that I like the tree branches on the right. Although that tree is as beautiful as the one in the center, it had to be cropped out. Its remaining branches may be cloned out by some serious, tedious work. Trees on the left side do not bother me, in fact I think they set the stage for the aspen in the center. I'd not cut out anything on the left.

 

However, more importantly, I'd like to keep the composition in square format. I think you are suggesting cropping from either side to bring it to more vertical format, which I personally avoid at all cost. as you can see in my portfolio, I am very biased/stubborn/opinionated on the aspect ratio issue.

thanks for the suggestions,

 

sorry, I abstain from posting larger versions my images on PN.

 

PN refuses to revise their scaling rules of larger images. Anything above 660px in width is scaled down. I'm willing to upload images up to 850px wide, but not wider. As long as the scaling rules are not revised, I will no longer upload above 660px wide.

 

All the images posted here are printed on 10inch wide or larger paper. This particular images is ~25MPixel and printed 10inch wide.

Since I had to use higher ISO to shoot it with 70-200 f/4L lens, on a moving boat, neither I had means nor time to have data collection for a better panorama.

 

Enjoy,

Zion.

A scene from PWS, Alaska. Enjoy.

Hi Kevin,

 

I print and exhibit all the images posted on PN.

The aspect ratios are result of mainly 2 parameters: printer and standard mat board sizes. I print 10inch or 13inch wide panoramas, but some of new pans have >100MP data (good for 300dpi @24inch wide)

 

Having said this, I'd like to stress that the real world has no set of good aspect ratios. All my pans are made of several captures stitched together. During shooting the aspect ratio is least of my worries. When I finally have something decent enough image to print (which can take days, weeks or months of tedious work), I finally start looking into binning into one of the aspect ratios such as 3.5:1, 2.5:1 etc.

 

One final note, despite horrible scaling on PN, hence difficulty in viewing, I really like high aspect ratios, >= 2.5: 1. One can appreciate the additional field of view when looking one of the large prints...

 

 

 

Once again, quite a distribution...love, hate and a few in between.

One of the strangest I've seen so far.

 

Bernhardt, I tried now, it looks like a bit contrast helps on the foreground and both edges. I was concerned about detail in the highlights, but it will work.

Thanks for suggestion.

In the presence of great white throne, ~1000 feet above the valley,

enjoying the sculptures of nature.

Sometimes.

 

thanks for comments and suggestions,

Canyons of green river. Enjoy.

I recently visited southern Utah, where the sculpted valleys of red,

white and yellow rock surprises you in every turn.

 

Hiking on thin, >1000ft high walls of red rocks takes your breath

away. You feel dizzy in the presence such magnificent beauty. You

kneel down to absorb it all in vain.

 

This is first of series of 24inch wide panoramas that I'll present

here,. Again these are merely puny reminders of these encounters...

Enjoy.

Thanks Nina, I agree it is messy (though you were too polite to say so). It certainly looks like there is both lower and upper artistic limits on the elements one can include in a "good" compositions. In some of my other compositions, I heard some complaining about their simplicity. Few declared that those compositions are too simple to be enjoyable. On the other end, the compositions like this one may contain too much detail. What is the magic number that will give just the right balance?

 

Lamar, i think the rotation does help here -thank you pointing it out.

I thought about cloning out the shrub, but had not done so. I don't know why, but I sort of like its thin long shadows more than itself... during shooting, I almost always trying to avoid shrubs, and when I include them in the composition, I do so, thinking they will be clonned out.

 

What one sees and experiences in location are not necessarily reflected in the photographs. IMHO, photographs exist in their own reality. Not all great scenes avail themselves into great photographs. And some really boring shots can turn into very fresh and exiting photographs.

 

This year I decided to make a wide panorama. Thanks for comments and

suggestions.

a lonely bay in Alaska. The brown bears in either side in mountains

descent for meals in twilights. comments and suggestions are welcome.

100F sunrise in mesquite flat where torturing wind,scorching sun give

goose bumps to earth.

enjoy,

It is hard to predict the reception of a picture here on PN. I am pleasantly surprised that this one was well received - so far.

 

Fluid landscapes of sand dunes and unusually colorful and different scenes of deserts are actually make them quite interesting, furthermore intellectually more stimulating than many other sites. frozen fluid states of sand dunes are in particular are open to wild imagination.

 

Ahmet, thank you for your kind words. Despite all the poetic license employed in your comments, I must say that your appreciating of my work is only a sign that we share the same profession. Don't change, or try to change. being an engineer is not a handicap for art. At least there will be engineers like me that will enjoy your work too.

 

cheers,

 

origin of waves. Another view from sunrise from dunes in Death Valley.