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July 2012
The story behind it
01/07/2012
"And the conclusion is: freedom makes things grow more", 2012, another Looooong shot.I am in the middle of a CAUSES Workshop, which I am providing in wonderful Alentejo. We had been photographing great trees, mainly oaks. The midday May sun gives us golden colours, upon a field of holm-oaks. On the left side, along a rocky ridge, several old trees grow slowly due to the tough soil. The bigger tree in the photograph, also an holm-oak, is on deep free soil!
Notes: visualisation quality is poorer than print and loupe image size is smaller than print.
Comment
Technical issues
01/07/2012
This photograph results from a stitch of 7 photographs, taken with DSLR and tripod. I used my Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens, at 1/30sec, f/8 and ISO 100. I applied a slight ND grad filter at post-processing. The diaphragm at f/8 provided best optical quality and large depth-of-field, for an ultra-sharp photograph. I've added also a bit of contrast and USM filter at the end.Critial review
01/07/2012
This photograph is a full representation of the Alentejo - its harshness, contrasts, grouping vs. isolation, big skies, great trees and absolutely wonderful colours. Its horizontal format enhances such horizontal dominance. The stitching and the exceptional clarity enable an extra large, high quality print. This photograph is also the proof that mid-day Sun can provide excellent results, and nearly no shadows. Where you should place it
01/07/2012
This photograph on a Dibond or Plexiglass base is absolutely stunning! It can be printed really, really large (see Technical aspects), way above the base, no-upsampling size. But if you like the more traditional paper print, with or without pass-part-tout, it will also be beautiful. As always, provinding dedicated light spots will make your day shine!
Just hang it! :-)
