Corsican pines

[macromeister]

Shot yesterday in my local forest by the sea.

Panasonic G3, 14-45mm. The last shot is stitch of two shots as I wanted to get a greater sense of scale and size - they are pretty tall trees. The sun was going down hence the leading light on the left side of the trunks, and the yellowish tinge in the first shot.




Corsican Pines by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr


Corsican pines #2 by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr

[jeeperman]

All three are some really nice work Rob, I think 3,1,2 are the order in which the appeal to me.

[Stevewebb]

3 is really great, I wouldn't have thought of stitching two shots together for that, must get that into my thick head at some point.

Also like number 2, which would look at home on many walls.

[macromeister]

Nov 19, 2012 7:25:58 GMT Stevewebb said:

3 is really great, I wouldn't have thought of stitching two shots together for that, must get that into my thick head at some point.

I only do it when shooting conditions are restricted. In this case the trees were tall and I couldn't step back much. With the camera in portrait mode I didn't have enough width to the shot even though I had the height. So taking two was the solution. Thanks for the comments.

[nickjohnson]

Thanks Rob – they are a treat.
I especially like the glow and low light source in #3. I like the way the sidelight sends streaks of colour up into the tree canopy. Any chance of giving it more glow / colour / vibrancy?
Also, I'm curious to see a colour version of #2 – please!

[macromeister]

Nov 19, 2012 11:55:40 GMT nickjohnson said:

Thanks Rob – they are a treat.
I especially like the glow and low light source in #3. I like the way the sidelight sends streaks of colour up into the tree canopy. Any chance of giving it more glow / colour / vibrancy?
Also, I'm curious to see a colour version of #2 – please!

I did boost the colour somewhat for #3. I don't think it will go much more, but I'll try. I'll do a colour version of #2 later and post.

[chrisc]

I really must try stitching sometime. Might you do us all a nice, simple tutorial on how this is so niftyly accomplished? I gouess it woul dbe interesting to see #2 as a color image but as a B&W, I like it quite much. What was the final output size?

[macromeister]

Nov 19, 2012 13:28:23 GMT chrisc said:

I really must try stitching sometime. Might you do us all a nice, simple tutorial on how this is so niftyly accomplished? I gouess it woul dbe interesting to see #2 as a color image but as a B&W, I like it quite much. What was the final output size?

Only the last one was stitched, Chris. The first two are single images. The last one os 3800x4300 pixels - about 16MP after cropping.

[macromeister]

Nov 19, 2012 11:55:40 GMT nickjohnson said:

Also, I'm curious to see a colour version of #2 – please!

Not sure if it works, or not?

[nickjohnson]

Oh Rob – that is just sooooo close – I can almost taste it. You where unlucky – maybe 10 mins too late with the light?