This location is one of my favorite places to visit. I have taken over 1000 photos here to get this rendition. I brought with me on this day of September 14, 2006 a lawn chair, my Bogan tripod and lunch. It was a fairly breezy late summer day and I had to wait between each shot for the wind to calm. It took me 1.5 hours to complete this photo.
The photo is a composite of 24 individual photos taken with my Nikkor 35-70mm (with macro) in the 50mm setting mounted on my Canon Rebel XT.
The preview photo provides an idea of where this all started. Color correction was a challenge but not impossible. You can see the sky is blue however the finished photo offers a dynamic cloud display. The sky is a composition of 4 photos taken with my Carl Zeiss 20mm in portrait. Stitched together and pasted into the "Mask", the whole photo takes on a new feeling. When viewed, many said that this photo looks like a "Painting"; Thus the difference between a photo and a "Rendering".
The overall size is 78 megapixels at 250 x 125 inches! My objective was to get the full spectrum of the river with the oak tree on the left “framing” the top while the foliage taking care of the rest. As explained below, there is not a lens made that can do this without a tremendous amount of distortion while providing the incredible detail that a simple 8 megapixel camera (or ANY pixel dimension camera or film) can offer.
Panoramic landscape photography is my forte and with the strength of the advanced software available for stitching multiple photos together I can get 30-90 megapixel photos with an 8 megapixel camera that span up over 200 inches. I like to think of my photos as “renderings”. I am asked “Why do you not just take one photo instead of eight or twelve”? There are three answers:
1:DETAIL. A 30-90 megapixel photo at 48 bit color has more detail than
any format film or any megapixel camera.
2:No lens is capable of photographing this wide an angle
3:If there were, the “Fisheye” view would so warp that the photo would not
be worth viewing.
One reason I went with a digital camera was because it seems that the automation of developing film was leaving something to be desired. It was once was you took your film into a camera shop and they developed it there. You could take in a shirt that someone was wearing in a photo and they could color match. This is a thing of the past. Film was being developed by “generic” machines and more often than not it was ruined by these “fast food” processors.
In order to have control with the complete process of my work from start to finish I was also going to have to print without the mess of chemicals and a dark room. Up until the Canon 9000 series photo printer nothing offered 8 colors and the ability to process 48 bit color files. Not only can this photo do BETTER than the majority of the photo labs out there, it can print on a great deal of media. One of the most used comments about my work is “ How do you get the photo to get to look so 3-D?”. I explain “It is a blending of instruments to create a color palette for me to ‘paint’ my photos.”
For more information follow this link to Canon’s site description.
Not only are you going to see photography like you never had before, it is going to last a long, long time.
Believe me, your prints will provide you a number of years of enjoyment!
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Jalon Hawk
jalonhawk@desperadocycles.com