Troubleshooting Environmental Obstacles
Lesson 5 from: Photographing Panoramas for Large PrintsMike Hagen
Troubleshooting Environmental Obstacles
Lesson 5 from: Photographing Panoramas for Large PrintsMike Hagen
Lesson Info
5. Troubleshooting Environmental Obstacles
Lessons
Class introduction
04:35 2Field Techniques, Camera & Lens Choices
08:15 3Selecting Gear for Great Panormas
10:44 4Camera Menu Settings & Exposure
09:58 5Troubleshooting Environmental Obstacles
04:04 6What Contributes to a Great Panorama
11:32 7Shooting Vertical Panoramas
04:57 8Shooting Techniques for Black & White Panoramas
04:59Handheld Technique for beginners
05:10 10Tripod Technique for Intermediate Photographers
07:43 11Advanced Technique for Panoramas
09:58 12Navigating Moving Subjects in Panoramas
04:04 13How Time of Day Impacts Panoramas
13:28 14Workflow in Lightroom
08:59 15Developing Images in Lightroom
11:54 16Merging Images
13:44 17Finishing Techniques
17:31 18Saving Images for Print
05:41 19Controlling Your Environment
05:23 20Profiling & Calibrating Your Monitor
20:54 21Wide Gamet Color Settings
12:37 22Soft Proofing Images
13:49 23Selecting the Right Paper for Prints
08:05 24Sharpening Images
28:33 25Printing with Lightroom
17:07 26Printing with Photoshop
05:46 27Black & White Printing
05:59 28Best Practices for Printing your Image at a Lab
07:10 29Analyzing & Displaying the Print
05:19 30Reviewing Panoramas Printed in Class
10:20Lesson Info
Troubleshooting Environmental Obstacles
The next is engaging with your environment. Working with what you've been given, when we travel a lot of times we really want the beautiful skies, the great weather, but sometimes we don't get it, so how do we deal with that when we shoot panoramas? So the weather at your location plays a big role in panoramas from the standpoint of, some days are like this, these blue bird days with these white, puffy clouds, this is an epic day to shoot panoramas. The colors are poppin' off of all of this rust on this area in the background, you can't hardly miss in situations like that. But what do we do when it's cloudy, or rainy, or windy, other scenarios, other environmental situations really impact our panorama photography. So when it's sunny out, generally what I'm looking for are white, puffy clouds. If I can get white, puffy clouds in the background behind my subject, I'm a happy man. So on the other hand, maybe it's cloudy out, it's kind of drab, in that situation, I actually change my panor...
ama approach, I go to a scenario where I'm excluding a lot of the sky because it's very boring in a big panorama like this, there's no texture and detail up in the clouds. So maybe I'll go down to a rusty portion of bolts and I'll shot a panorama of that, or maybe some grass and flowers. So I really limit my scope in my panoramas on cloudy, rainy days. On sunny days, go big, go bold. You know, another thing to think about when you're photographing in the environment, a lot of things you can't control. For example, here we have this black fence around the perimeter of the gas works park area and I think the black fence is kinda ugly. So you gotta kinda weigh, do I wanna photograph the scene so the black fence isn't there, or do I wanna include the black fence in the scene? And if I do wanna include it, would I have enough time later on to do editing in Photoshop to actually get rid of it? Well in this case, getting rid of a black fence like that is near impossible. So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna incorporate the fence as more like a gritty, urban scene. So one of my rules around composition is, if you're gonna include it, then really include it, and make it a part of the photo, and that's what I'm gonna do for this shot. Cool, so the, let me forward this here, here's the resulting image. This was the resulting image with the black fence, and you know, I mentioned earlier that I think this sometimes, fences always bother photographers. Do you include the fence? Do you not include the fence? Well here there's really no other option. Well maybe there was an option, I probably could've taken the panorama and cropped it something like this, but it would've just looked odd. You don't have the feet of the buildings, or the base of the industrial scene down here, so we need that as a foundation. So here I included the fence. I think it's okay, it's alright, it's not what I expected when I went to the park. So one of my rules of photography is if it's there in the frame, then include it, include it in a way that makes sense. So we even made a print of this, this is the last print that we just produced right here, and now that I look at it in the print, the black fence isn't really all that bad. So dealing with the environment when you get there is a big part of being a photographer and an artist. I also talked about weather, we're not always able to control the weather, we live here in Washington and it just worked out on our pre shoot day that we had beautiful, stunning weather. But if we didn't, I would've changed my approach and like I said, I tend to go smaller when the weather gets worse. So I'm looking for more detail type stuff when we have rain or cloud. Beautiful days like this, those clouds make your photos just sing, so include it.
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Ratings and Reviews
Fred Morton
Get it, get it and get it. I bought Mike's Speedlight course and this is on the list after watching it on line. The course design by Mike with the Creative Live staff is a successful blend of content and presentation. I absolutely loved how Mike took us on location for several shoots, where we could see the setup and problems that he had to resolve. This is a must have course for photographers interested in landscape work. Another powerful part of this class is Mike's willingness to demonstrate and show us what didn't work. The practical experience in his course was just like being in the field with Mike.
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Mike combines two characteristics of a great teacher: he's obviously knowledgable and competent about his subject matter and he's relaxed and confident in how he presents his ideas. This class covers everything I need to know about photographing and printing panoramas. But, it is much more. It is a class that shows the essential skills involved in shooting, post-processing, and printing photographs and how to apply them to a specific application: panoramas. I learned a lot! Thanks, Mike.
Sue Sirius
This workshop was terrific! I learned so much about taking, processing and printing panoramas (and photos in general). I found the presentation very easy to follow with great examples and instructions. Highly recommend this!