IMGP0630Dinaric sunset
from our bedroom balcony, looking westwards towards Croatia over the Dinaric range of the Southern Alps, we are about 75kms as the Crow flies from the Croatian ...
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from our bedroom balcony, looking westwards towards Croatia over the Dinaric range of the Southern Alps, we are about 75kms as the Crow flies from the Croatian (Dalmation) town of Split and live in a town in Western Bosnia called Livno .....famous Livno ...these fields inside modern day Bosnia, were where the ancient and first Croatian King Tomislav had his Coronation.
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Location
My photo was taken from my guest bedroom balcony in Livno, Western Bosnia and faces west overlooking the Dinaric Alps which at this location forms a border with neighbouring country of Croatia.Time
The original series of pictures that composited to form this stitch picture were taken at 17:41 hours during the day on 16th November 2016Lighting
This vista often provides an array of different visual effects ...the line of the Dinarics separates the Continental climate we have in Bosnia and Hezegovina from the Mediterranean Climate that the region on the other side enjoys in Dalmatia, in doing so we experience some effects like tunnel cloud systems caused mostly by a phenomenon called the 'Bura', which meet with warm air rising and spiral to form North to south columns that 'ape' the direction of the natural barrier 'Dinara' (this section of the Dinara is called locally 'Kamesnica'. This November was very warm and the colours to start with were very warm.Equipment
Shot on a Pentax K100D Super (6mp static camera with a crop factor of 1.5x) the lens was the standard 18-55mm Kit lens at 28mm (42mm in 35mm film terms) open at f 5.6, shutter time: 1/40th sec, at ISO 400 (fixed) No tripod, hand-held. No flash and all settings set to middle values i.e sharpness, Saturation and colour. ...Inspiration
This being 14 kilometers away from my sleeping accommodation plays a similar role to a catwalk in that, the models are the weather system which parade in a variety of clothes along the Mountain top from North to South (Right of picture = North). All visitors manage to pull off a sensational picture to take back home... I am very proud of living in Bosnia.Editing
the two pictures were joined with Microsoft I.C.E image composite editor to form this picture and finally the picture was run though HDR programme from Franzis of Germany called 'HDR Project 3 elements' on a 32 bit laptop.In my camera bag
I tend to have a good prime 28mm which equates to 42mm after crop factor of 1.5 his is around the value a human looks out at and I find it solves the parallax problem that the normal 18-55mm or 18-105mm lenses exhibit, the flipside is when doing panorama work you must stitch and until I found I.C.E (a free download) I was struggling putting them together to this detail. I have recently moved to 2 small 1 inch sensor Nikon 1 V1 which I have set up with one using the 10-30mm kit short zoom lens and the other set up with the EXCELLENT 30-110mm Kit mid zoom lens, my photos look great for social media maybe less resolution than the Pentax above but a great small outfit which is half the size ..I also can carry a legacy 200mm Prime with a manual focus adapter which with the absurd i-inch crop factor of (times) x 2.7 gives me a distance reach of 540mm and the V1 is superb on manual setting.Feedback
take at least 16 if you use my system involving a stitching programme, this will enable one to be substituted if the programme throws one picture out as 'undesirable'. I mostly stitch only three maximum so I can play around to get the picture I want and the 'seamless effect'.
