The Weekly Photo – June 27
Below is a photo from the Spring in the Rockies Photo Tour. This ‘secret spot’ is only 5-minutes from the Aurum Lodge. I used a Canon 24mm TS-E lens on my Canon EOS-1ds Mark III. The camera was in portrait orientation and I made two vertical photos; one shifted up, the other shifted down to make a long thin pano that I stitched using Photo Merge in Adobe Photoshop CS-5. I also had the lenses tilted for max apparent DOF. Exposure was 20s at f11. I also used a Singh-Ray 4-stop solid ND filter to lengthen exposure time to build-up colour in the sunrise.
©Darwin Wiggett
Darwin Wiggett 
June 27, 2011 at 8:12 AM
Exceptionally beautiful Photo
June 27, 2011 at 8:15 AM
Once again, such a great photograph. Love the cool blue sky agains the warm light of the sunrise.
June 27, 2011 at 9:19 AM
This photo reminds me Asian hanging scroll. Their subjects are usually nature. I have just searched on google “Kakejiku” or “Kakemono”, and I found some similarity in Darwin’s image and Asian drawings.
Good story telling from bottom to top, from grass to cloud patterns. I found another my favorite.
June 27, 2011 at 10:39 AM
Hey that is cool, I am going to call my vertical panos “hanging scrolls’, maybe that will make them worth more and I can retire as a rich artist 😉
June 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM
Darwin,
Thanks for the great image! Could you explain what you mean by “lengthen exposure time to build-up colour in the sunrise”? Does exposure length affect color saturation differently than removing the ND filter or adjusting aperture?
June 27, 2011 at 7:59 PM
Such an amazing photo, so glad you share it with us! 🙂