by successfulbob | landscape photography, Lumix GX7, Lumix Lounge, panorama, photography
While in Salt Lake City I had a chance to chase around the area for some scenic photos. On the way to Park City we passed by this area. Lots of material to work with in this scene. St. Mary’s of the Assumption Catholic church is an attractive piece of architecture in the field. Throw in the cattails that are changing color behind the split rail fence. Add some mountains and clouds in the background and there are lots of permutations for different looks in working the scene. My favorite is a panoramic that was stitched in the camera. The Lumix GX7 really has an incredible ability to keep lines in place while putting the image together. It will tell you if you’ve gone astray either panning too fast or too slow or offline and lets you start over to shoot it properly.
Of course, you need to get in the proper position for everything to work in the final composition. Here’s a shot of me getting the shot by Panasonic rep (and great touring partner!) Kristin Long.
Kristin Long photo of me getting the shot.
And the shot….
St Mary’s of the Assumption Catholic Church – Park City, Utah
by successfulbob | architectural photography, Lumix GX7, Lumix Lounge, panorama
On my way to the airport after speaking at the professional photographers of Michigan convention I was able to spend a few minutes with Jim downtown Grand Rapids along the river with all the art that’s installed right now. He gave me a great chance to play with the LumixGX7. I’m really enjoying the panoramic capabilities of the in camera stitching and the way the final output comes. Here are a couple images from the shoot.
Riverfront image along the Grand River in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Airport entrance in Grand Rapids, Michigan
by successfulbob | landscape photography, Lumix GX7, Lumix Lounge, panorama, photography
Monsoon sunset in Sedona, Arizona from Sound Bites Grill. Red rock landscape image with cloud formations.
Great time of year for landscape capture in the southwest. Sedona, Arizona has great red rocks all year long but add in the cloud formations of the monsoon season at sunset and things really start to rock!
This landscape image was assembled from 2 in camera panoramas made with the Lumix GX7 with a 25mm 1.4 Leica Summilux lens. Then the 2 images were stitched together using Adobe Photoshop to get more of the clouds in with the red rocks.
FYI, I wasn’t thinking about making images when this started to occur. I was out to dinner with my wife Holly and things started to happen on the horizon and luckily before we left the house I had grabbed the GX7 “just in case”. I’m finding that because of its small size I am keeping the camera with me more and more often. And, consequently I’m finding more and more photo opportunities unveiling themselves before me. I tried to do this with my former go-to camera but often found it too cumbersome so often left it behind and lamented not getting the shot when it jumped up in front of me.
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by successfulbob | landscape photography, Lumix GX7, Lumix Lounge, panorama, photography, photography education
Gotta tell you the more I use the Lumix GX7 the more I like it!
At a friends house for dinner last night and the light started to get pretty nice on the red rocks. Had the GX7 with me because it’s so portable (read small). Tried the in-camera panorama stitching and pretty darn amazed at the result. The camera tells you if you are moving too fast or too slow during the stitch panorama shooting. If it doesn’t think it’s got a good capture it doesn’t waste card space – it just tells you to start over. This is handheld and swept from left to right with what sounded like 12 exposures.
The good and the bad and the good again… Good – This looked beautiful on the back of the camera even when I zoomed to take a fairly close look. Bad – When I opened the file there were a couple areas in the sky where there were some light bands when I got to view it on the studio monitor. Good again – The bands were easy to remove using the patch too in Adobe Photoshop CS6. I have a feeling as I get more accustomed to shooting with the panoramic setting that banding will become less of a problem.
In addition to cleaning up the two bands in the sky I took out a little bit of encroaching roofs from the bottom and added a tone curve to bring down the sky a little. Had I been thinking I could have added the tone curve in the camera as the panorama was being captured. Yes you can add curves and other special settings in camera! There was no adjustment to the image for a warping which happens many times when processing out files into panoramic software.
Let me know what you think!
Panorama photo in the Village of Oak Creek, Sedona, Arizona
