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Mary Brown
{K:71879} 1/24/2006
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I found I was just staring at this. It is soo beautifully done. I love the depth, the meeting of vertical and horizontal lines, the way the Sun adds light to the top edge of the picture, the brightness of the snow and the textures. Your techniques intrigue me. Of course, I can make no comments on them, I just know what catches my attention and speaks to something in me, as this does.
Mary
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naftali raz
{K:1819} 1/19/2006
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an excellent study in seasonal affective disorder ;) rich in bleackness as only december can be.
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 12/25/2005
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Fantastic work! Absolutely stunning mood and perspective! This proves a lot about the person, and not the camera! Best wishes, Ina
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marco "dheim" orciuoli
{K:4467} 12/16/2005
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impressive landscape... i'm not sure i've completely understood your exposure/stitching technique, but it works perfectly well!
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 12/11/2005
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Michele, thanks for your comment. It was handheld, with help of the grid lines on the display
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 12/11/2005
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Peter, thanks for your thoughtful comment ! Yes these small sensor digicams grew up with technical progress. With a bit effort you get nice results. I am quite happy with my new toy, always in my pocket, no passed opportunities any more ;-) The blue cast is there, of course, but I like it more with the blue shade, maybe I should have take away some cast, but not all blue because a perfectly white snow is kind of boring.
Cheers
Carsten
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 12/11/2005
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wooww carsten your fantastic style is here.. look it!
the square frame, the minimalistic landcsape and the surrealistic but natural light,.. the snow is perfect white, the sky so dark!!! another big work..
see you later
roby
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KEVIN TEMPLE
{K:8657} 12/11/2005
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my kinda photo Carsten well done
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Dirck DuFlon
{K:35779} 12/9/2005
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Stark and beautiful, Carsten! I like the way you placed the sun in the center vertically with the dried stalks in the field leading toward it! Beautifully white snow, but I'm happy to be seeing it on my computer only, and not out my window! :)
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 12/9/2005
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Svend, thanks a lot for this substantiated comment !
I can imagine that your eyes got stuck on this, as a square winter landscape ;-) Such comments are about the best what can happen to UFers, knowledgeable and well thought.
Let me response in turn. It is indeed quite interesting that landscape photography is simultaneously kind of repetitive and diversified. I mean, most of my landscapes are from the same terrain around my home the last three years, same place, several variations. And not boring at all to try it again and again, to catch the "perfect light" and most interesting perspective, at least for me.
You could call me a Velvia guy, since I have a tendency for strong colors, but my attitude towards pulling the sliders in PS is probably a bit more sensible in the last time. This was kind of test shot for my new toy, a pocket size small sensor type digicam planned as backup for the DSLR. I dont want to lug around the heavy equipment all the time, when on a walk with my wife etc. but I dont want to miss an opportunity when nice light or cloudscapes appear unexpectedly. Storage is not the problem nowadays, so I make usually three bracketed shots to cope with the tiny sensors weakness, latitude. Expose for the highlights, then +1 EV, + 2 EV. My first impressions of this approach with composites for wider dynamic range are promising. At the cost of fiddling with PS afterwards, of course.
Very intersting your points on DOF. A Hassy is the opposite of a small sensor dicicam, in this context. With a Hassy you have to work hard for maximum DOF, and with a digicam it is impossible to get the beautiful bokeh of your large Zeiss lenses. One of the reasons I bought a DSLR was indeed the more flexible, shallow DOF for composition, but most often I work with maximum DOF even with the DSLR (for landscapes, not for portrait of course). I have seen some great examples of selective DOF in landscape, this is a valuable point ! Maybe I should play with PS and its lens blur function together with gradient masks or other selective application tools.
Regards
Carsten
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svend videbak
{K:7376} 12/9/2005
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Well this is a magnificent winter landscape photograph, however it was produced. It isn't grand in the least -- but I at least have seen enough pictures of Utah badlands and Rocky Mountain ranges of the Velvia school to last ten lifetimes. The "emanating from below" luminosity through the snow is beautiful. Most of all, colour is handled about as well as it's possible to handle with photography. Of course there is no colour without light, so maybe it would be better to say that light is handled about as well as it can be handled. Very surprising that this was made with a "pocket" digital camera. My eye is led to that distant rectangular field of green. Calligraphic interest is all around -- winter landscapes are the calligrapher's delight. As for the sharpness here of the depth-of-field from absolute foreground to absolute background, you know, I don't think this is always necessarily the best way to achieve a feeling of great depth and distance in a picture. This was a great concern of Leonardo da Vinci's, who developed a technique of painting called "sfumato" which describes a way of applying paint in the most delicate build-up of layers so as to eliminate all edges in the parts of a painting which recede from the viewer into the distance -- in his hands, an astonishingly subtle dissolving into nothingness. This is one of the greatest tools a photographer has as well: deciding what shall be sharp and what shall not be sharp. When the eye "reads" a picture which is perfectly sharp throughout the frame, it is led by the lines and shapes of the picture in an up-and-down, right-to-left way around the frame. When the eye "reads" a picture which contains sharpness in relation to "dissolvingness to nothingness" it is led forward and through, into the picture, so that the edges of the frame are left behind. Generally, though, "fine art" landscape photographers follow the rule of absolute depth-of-field and sharpness, perhaps because of Ansel Adams and his F64 group, I don't know. It's a strange fact that the eyes of most people revolt against foreground unsharpness leading to background sharpness. I'm blathering on... Always a pleasure to drop in and see the advances you're making, Carsten. Rgds, Svend
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David McClenaghan
{K:9481} 12/9/2005
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Stunning.
Excellent image and fantastic detail.
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 12/8/2005
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Roger, thanks for your nice comment, this is a honor from an expert "film guy" like you ;-)
The Powershot is planned as backup camera, always in my pocket. THis shot was from a walking tour with my wife. I didnt expect something interesting, but who knows ?
The drawback of those small sensor cameras is poor low light performance, and the latitude is like hard slide film, about 8 stops. So I make always three shots, expose for the lights and then + 1 and +2 EV, put them together as composite stacked / stitched with 100% overlap, then decide which tonal part comes out best from the three layers. And for Hassy feeling... poor mans Hassy is stitching, a vertical stitch of two landscapes makes a nice square ;-) And, last not least, show me the Hassy with this DOF...
Cheers
Carsten
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Aivar Mikko
{K:573} 12/8/2005
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Exposure is absolutely perfect. And composition is also interesting. Lines leading to central part, which is narrow but still interesting. Color tones of sky are just perfect combination with white snow. What I feel when I look into this is loneliness. Sure everybody has been in such situation and this brings out memories and add feelings to photo.
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abhra aich
{K:8830} 12/8/2005
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wonderful landscape.ABhra.
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Thilo Bayer
{K:50358} 12/8/2005
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Hi Carsten,
great to see a snow panorama. The near mono toning creates a very special mood. I like the way the lines lead to the horizon. maybe a perspective a little bit lower would even increase this point. anyway, great stuff as usual!
best wishes,
Thilo
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Debarshi Duttagupta
{K:26815} 12/8/2005
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Wow ! thats a lot of snow.
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Rosario Esposito
{K:9796} 12/8/2005
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Splendid image with one perfect light, optimal capture. Congratulations
-Rosario-
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 12/8/2005
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Who needs a Hasselblad when a Powershot can produce work like this? Hmmm. Well the answer is probably "everyone who lacks the necessary PS skills." It is great to see such skills used to produce beautiful and completely convincing natural-looking images. O si sic omnes!
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 12/8/2005
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Who needs a Hasselblad when a Powershot can produce work like this? Hmmm. Well the answer is probably "everyone who lacks the necessary PS skills." It is great to see such skill used to produce beautiful and completely convincing natural-looking images. O si sic omnes!
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Alison DuFlon
{K:36566} 12/8/2005
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This is so beautiful Carsten, the rows from the fields lead our eyes through the photo. The lengthy expanse of snowy ground and the dark sky give us a beautiful winter scene. Alison
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 12/7/2005
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A classic Ranke!!
Stunning landscape, brilliant editing!
Superb!
Best regards, Chris
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Maria Conversano
{K:2666} 12/7/2005
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Exelòlent work, Carsten! Great deepth!
Cheers
Maria
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Naomi Weidner
{K:6636} 12/7/2005
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Beautiful image. I can feel the cold and hear the silence. Thanks for the technical info. -- Naomi
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Ingrid Mathews
{K:7277} 12/7/2005
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It is as if I'm standing there myself at the edge of the field, only, I can see the cold but don't feel it, huddled in my warm office. Your pictures have a clarity and 'aliveness' which is amazing. I love coming to visit. Well done Carsten!
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ventrix drogo
{K:65398} 12/7/2005
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Great shot. I like it. Good tones and composition.
Bye.
ventrix (enrico)
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Jeanette Hägglund
{K:59855} 12/7/2005
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Nature resting, even though a lot of smells, wet soil and snow that make sounds when walking on it. Grey winter weather and fast changes. As usual you have captured mood and beauty Carsten!
Jeanette
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Kiarang Alaei
{K:49415} 12/7/2005
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Skifully capture, specialy as contrast & exposure. very interesting perspective of the lines.
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David Hofmann
{K:22223} 12/7/2005
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I'm alsways surprised how you make the most usual scenes look so interesting.
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ricardo longhi-frantz
{K:9628} 12/7/2005
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astonishing beauty! fantastic and lovely clarity and tones and wooooonderful balance!
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sergio rotondo
{K:1690} 12/7/2005
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molto bella
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Mark Longo
{K:12760} 12/6/2005
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Thanks for the technical details of creating this image, it is facinating. But of course, what attracted me to the image was the great beauty of mood you have captured, showing the sense of december perfectly! Bravo!!!
Mark
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Peter Houtmeyers
{K:3519} 12/6/2005
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Hello. Unbelievable depht and sharpness.....trow away your dslr with expensive lenses Carsten!!! ;0) Amazing the quality these point and shoot camera's can produce somethimes.When used in a 800x800 pixel resolution the difference is minimal between a dslr and this camera. Could it be that there's tiny bit of blue colorcast notisable in the snow( could be my screen).If so.... in P.S elements you could correct this easely using enhance,adjust color,color cast. I know i am splitting hairs here Carsten....
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Michele Berti
{K:14921} 12/6/2005
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beautiful view. it's amazing how u manage to work with multiple photos and exposures... and then stick them togheter. I suppose u used a tripod bytheway, isn't it?
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 12/6/2005
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Thank you for stopping by ! Shane, I have tried Panotools about three times (try/distress/ uninstall x3). Powerful, but the opposite of user friendly. The only reason why PTGui sells ;-)
Cheers
Carsten
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Shane O'Neill
{K:3054} 12/6/2005
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very impressive technique - I have tried PT Gui on your advice and I like it a lot. I want to get the full version but site is having technical trouble meaning I cant get a registration code. Hopefully I will have it soon .. have you ever tried Panotools?
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Domjan Svilkovic
{K:3104} 12/6/2005
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The effort certainly paid off! A trully stunning landscape shot! Well done! 7+
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Don Loseke
{K:32503} 12/6/2005
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This is beautiful Carsten, as I come from the farm I have seen this type of snow cover many times. Such a wonderful threatening sky to go with the scene. Ourstanding work. Don.
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Mitchell Miller
{K:3009} 12/6/2005
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wow!! great effort!! beautiful result!! congrats!!
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carlos sanchez
{K:3631} 12/6/2005
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good work!!!!!!
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