Our First Snowfall
We moved to Bremerton in the spring of 2016 and we had our first snowfall in December. I took a number of virtual shots and stitched this panorama of houses acr...
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We moved to Bremerton in the spring of 2016 and we had our first snowfall in December. I took a number of virtual shots and stitched this panorama of houses across the water from is. With little to no wind, the water was highly reflective adding some warm light reflections in a otherwise monochromatic scene.
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This was taken in Dec 9, 2016 from a bedroom window.Time
It was very clam that morning and high tide. The water almost glass like.Lighting
The exposure was hard to judge with the deep morning shadows and highly reflective snow. To help compensate with the dynamic range of the scene, I chose to bracketed the exposure. Later I would stitched those to the final Pano.Equipment
I used a tripod and cable release with the camera set to manual exposure and used the mirror lock up function. And as usual I used a telephoto lens to compress the scene, 400mm and the camera turned vertically for this image.Inspiration
The snow, morning light, specks of color here and there in the scene. I was very excited to capture our first snow fall in Bremerton Washington.Editing
The first process was creating a realistic exposure from the bracketed images. Then I took those and stitched them to a pano. Sometime PH has an issue with long panos. To compensate for that I stitch 3 images at a time and then stitch those images together to create the final composition. All together the entire image was created from 27 individual images. The final image was twice as long/wide as the one posted here.In my camera bag
I try to limit my bag to 2 lenses depending on where and how long I'll be gone. 50mm and 70-200mm are my go to lenses, but I sometimes pick a 16-35mm or 85mm forcing me to use only those lenses.Feedback
Make sure you have a tripod or at least a solid surface to place the camera on. Bracket the exposure for 3-5 shots. You might not ever create an HDR image of the scene, but at least you will have the option. A cable release or set the camera in to self timer mode to reduce the shake. Try using a telephoto on landscapes. Most of the time we want to capture everything visible in one shot and we use a wide angle lenses, but if think pano and stitching you can create images far beyond the mega pixels capacity of your camera. And you can cut out all that miscellaneous scenery upfront that might have cropped from the final image. And you'll end up with great detail and larger prints in the end. And yes, I do print my images.
