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Dogwood52: Week 8: Landscape: Wide Angle/Panorama

So, here I am again with the weekly challenge. This time, it’s a great opportunity to explore panorama stitching and create a wide, sweeping landscape.

I first tried from the balcony of my office room, played with Photoshop Photo Merge, and decided to use Lightroom to create the panorama – it seems to handle raw files better when it comes to vignetting. Then I put a lot of energy and time into this project and asked myself a lot of questions, including about the ratio to use, and found that 3×1 is a good bet because we can find frames using this ratio. All camera settings are manual, including focus and bracketing was enabled to catch different exposures. But you have been warned: the pictures are great (in size) – please download them if you like 😉

Luxembourg Grund night panorama
Luxembourg Grund night panorama (full size image)
Mamer Schlass night panorama
Mamer Schlass night panorama (full size image)
Skate Park Hollerich 360 degrees panorama
Skate Park Hollerich 360 degrees panorama (full size image)

And here are some pictures captured while training for the shootings:

Getting warmed up for panoramic capture
Getting warmed up for panoramic capture (full size image)

The panorama has just started; I will definitely make more, thinking of an album of Luxembourg panoramas.

Dogwood52: week 7: Portrait: Faceless

Tell someone’s story without showing their face.

I found it extremely hard to feel inspired and capture an interesting context. I didn’t put too much effort into this and mainly worked on the future challenges instead; but here’s the result:

Kids playing, normal stuff Feet portrait Texting Couch potato

Respectively named:

  • Kids playing, normal stuff,
  • Feet portrait,
  • Texting, and
  • Couch potato.

But be prepared for something more amazing for week 8 😉

Dogwood52: week 6: Artistic: Candy

Your artistic interpretation this week should be inspired by something sweet. A great chance to play with macro photography.

But after strugging for week 7 challenge, I just realized I forgot to post this one! So there it is…

I had a lot of fun with candies; making close-ups, bokeh, macro and creating a scene:

Accident scene
Accident scene

And of course, the other pictures taken for the challenge:

Three candies playing bokeh
Three candies playing bokeh

Candies aftermach
Candies aftermach

Healthy candies
Healthy candies

Feeding time
Feeding time

Food time
Food time

Candy lover
Candy lover

A Rabbit's diet
A Rabbit’s diet

And we got a house full of candies after the shooting session 😉

Dogwood52: Week 4: Portrait: headshot

This one was really difficult for me. It’s hard to know what expression and posture to ask people for, so I decided to publish a picture of Sheepie, my travel companion from New Zealand. I am so bad at have a lot of potential in portrait photography 😉

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Other candidates (includes my mother, a lovely bike found on the street, Sheepie and my work mate):
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Link to the gallery challenge.

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