Daily Archives: March 29, 2010
3/30/2010
Laudholm Beach
So you walk through the Laudholm meadows, the old apple orchard, the woods, and out across the marsh on the old road bed, through the summer cottages, up the stairs and across the boardwalk and this is what you see. Laudholm Beach, stretching past the mouth of the Little River, connecting to Crecent Beach and Parsons before coming to the mouth of the Mousam, Great Head, Lords Point, St. Anne’s and Walker’s Point. And it is all there in this picture, plus sky!
Canon SX20IS at 40mm equivalent. F4 @ 1/250th @ ISO 80. Landscape program.
Cropped a little at the bottom in Lightroom. Recovery for the sky. Blackpoint right. Added Clarity and a bit of Vibrance. Sharpen landscape preset.
From Around Home 2010.
3/29/2010
Laudholm Pond Panorama
I have a detailed explanation of why and how this shot was taken at Playing With Panoramas: sort of… on Point & Shoot Landscape. I was not really after the panorama effect, but I wanted a wider shot than my 28mm equivalent could provide, in order to frame the pond and sky with the white birch stands. Three shots using the Panorama mode on the SX20IS with the zoom at about 40mms, PhotoShop Elements’ PhotoMerge tool, plus final processing in Lightroom, yields this. Of course, to see it to true advantage you need to click the image and open it in the largest size you monitor will show. For comparison, here is the shot with the unaided 28mm on the Canon SX20IS.
From Around Home 2010.