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Name: Elizabeth Ann Arbor, Michigan (Zone 6a)              arctangent Mar 5, 2021 6:01 PM CST |
| Mother Nature's Garden A strip from a photomerge of a scene of the Willow Pond area and beyond (Matthaei Botanical Gardens) on a beautiful fall day. I liked the light and the clouds, which made up, in part, for a general lack of brilliant fall color that year.  Here's the full photomerge. Every time I see this image, it takes me back to that beautiful day, when Nature was so generous with its beauty. If you have high enough resolution, and look closely at the far right end of the banner strip, you'll see a weathered teak bench, beneath a massive old black cherry tree, where one could sit and view the scene. It's a favorite place of mine on days when I'm enjoying what the Willow Pond has to offer.  I post high resolution photos (nature, travel, and other subjects) on smugmug https://arctangent.smugmug.com... |
North Central Massachusetts (N (Zone 5b) Life & gardens: make them beautiful     joannakat Mar 5, 2021 6:02 PM CST |
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful banner Elizabeth.  AKA Joey. |
Name: Rj Just S of the twin cities of M (Zone 4b)    crawgarden Mar 5, 2021 6:16 PM CST |
| Exceptional banner Elizabeth! Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. |
Name: Christine North East Texas (Zone 7b) American Beauty Butterfly            wildflowers Mar 5, 2021 6:39 PM CST |
 Lovely beautiful!  May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day --Native American Proverb |
Name: Karen New Mexico (Zone 7b)            plantmanager Mar 5, 2021 7:03 PM CST |
| What a beautiful place! I'd love to sit on that bench! Great banner. Handcrafted Coastal Inspired Art SeaMosaics! |
Name: Laurie southeast Nebraska (Zone 5b)    lauriemorningglory Mar 5, 2021 7:48 PM CST |
Beautiful scene! I agree about the bench, too.  |
Zone 5   Fleur569 Mar 5, 2021 7:48 PM CST |
| Cinemascope in action, giving us VistaVision. A great job of photomerging. Excellent. Love the magnitude of the view within such a limited space. |
Name: Laurie southeast Nebraska (Zone 5b) lauriemorningglory Mar 5, 2021 7:50 PM CST |
| What exactly is photomerging? |
Name: SoCal Orange County (Zone 10a) Lazy Gardener or Melonator  SoCalGardenNut Mar 5, 2021 8:16 PM CST |
| Exceptional banner, I love it! I try to grow everything, sometime not successful. |
Name: Elizabeth Ann Arbor, Michigan (Zone 6a) arctangent Mar 6, 2021 5:35 AM CST |
lauriemorningglory said:What exactly is photomerging? Photomerging is the software process of creating a wider angle image from two or more frames from your camera that were taken with the camera at a fixed position, but rotated slightly between frames. It can result in long strip-like images that most would call panoramas. Or the subject can be something closer that you just want a wider or taller view of than you can get from a single frame. Modern software is good enough (forgiving enough) that you don't even need to have the camera mounted on a tripod to take the single shots. You need to keep the same focal length for all the shots you want to merge, but you can let the camera make its own choices about aperture or exposure time, i.e. you don't have to shoot in full manual mode. You do have to have enough overlap of subject matter between shots for the software to figure things out, maybe 1/4 of each shot overlapping the next one in the sequence. I use Photoshop or Lightroom for my merges, but I'm sure other editing packages have that capability, too. For the photomerge I used for the banner, I started with several camera shots that were taken in the portrait or vertical format. That allowed me to get most of the pond in the final view without losing the amazing sky. I post high resolution photos (nature, travel, and other subjects) on smugmug https://arctangent.smugmug.com... |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a)          kqcrna Mar 6, 2021 6:26 AM CST |
| Beautiful banner! Karen |
Name: Frenchy Falls Church, VA (Zone 7b)         Frenchy21 Mar 6, 2021 7:52 AM CST |
| Amazing banner Elizabeth! |
Name: Cal McGaugh Escondido, California (Zone 10b)  EscondidoCal Mar 6, 2021 12:20 PM CST |
| Beautiful landscape, Elizabeth. I knew it was yours immediately. Seamless stitching. I use Hugin (free) Learn & create something every day. Our Duck Pond The thread "Pool to Natural Pond Conversion" in Ponds and Water Gardening forum |
Name: Ursula Fair Lawn NJ, zone 6b         Ursula Mar 6, 2021 3:12 PM CST |
| I think this is about the prettiest banner ever!! |
Name: Sean B Riverhead, NY (Zone 7a)     Whitebeard Mar 6, 2021 4:41 PM CST |
Very fine job, Elizabeth. The tips and cudos are well-deserved.  |
Name: Baja Baja California (Zone 11b)    Baja_Costero Mar 6, 2021 4:43 PM CST |
| A perfect slice. |
Name: Laurie southeast Nebraska (Zone 5b) lauriemorningglory Mar 6, 2021 8:01 PM CST |
| Thanks for the explanation. Can't tell where the seams are--great job! |
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