November 2009 Photography Assignment- Landscapes - cityscapes in portrait orientation

[JAS_Photo]

Casil and I attended a lecture by Darwin Wigget today who more or less inspired this month's theme. It was a very informative lecture, about the use of lenses, how the different focal lengths affect the outcome and depth of field and all that good stuff. He also lectured on how to use your lenses to portray or accentuate elements of your photo, etc. Ha! Then he tells us he uses mostly Perspective Control lenses for his landscapes and also uses the shift function to create the squares and long portrait oriented photos that are stitched together later in post. Quite interesting to know how they are done. Something to aspire to! Love his long exposure landscapes as well.

http://www.darwinwiggett.com/gallery.php

[JAS_Photo]

Nice view ECJ! But brrrr...

[hodaka]

he uses mostly Perspective Control lenses for his landscapes and also uses the shift function to create the squares and long portrait oriented photos that are stitched together later in post.
Galleries : Nature and Landscape Photography from Canada

I've often suspected as much when looking at his photos. Just so much going on in them.

[hodaka]

OK, went back to Cottonwood Falls, here's one for the assignment:

[JAS_Photo]

Very nice Hodaka!