Vertical Moose
After yesterday’s plane picture, I thought I better take it back to nature. I hadn’t thought about the idea of vertical panoramas until my recent post in which two horizontal images were used to create single square composition. Of course, panos are typically meant to display an impressive breadth, one which is emphasized through “format redundancy” for maximum effect. But what if a scene is extremely tall? When I walked up to this lookout, there were elk just to my right, buffalo about 200 yards behind me and this moose in front of me, having an afternoon snack of water plants and willow buds. Plus the 13,772 ft, Grand Teton…gotta love it. The image is composed of three vertical shots from my 70-200mm, though it could have easily been captured in one frame using my 17-40mm, then cropped down. But part of it was just going through the process, and part of it is the fact that three full-framed images placed together will always print far better larger than a single image cropped and blown up to an equivalent size. I’m pretty sure I could blow this image up to about 8 or 10 feet and, printed via continuous tone, the quality would still be top notch.
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Cool (and beautiful) photo! Thanks for sharing your process Cody.
Thanks, Diane, it was fun to put together. I was lucky to have such a beautiful scene!
Cody, such a beautiful scene! The legs on that moose still look long even with the massive peaks behind it.
I’d like to see this on a wall 8 feet tall, yes.
Hi Vicki, much appreciated. You went nuts on the comments, friend, thank you! The moose was actually a big one for our Lower 48 species. I could see the nubs of a new rack beginning to sprout from his brow, big fellow. Thanks again for all your kind words.