Sky Hand
See a huge hand in the sky? No? Put out your right hand while viewing this image …
I’ve been wanting to pull off this type of images for a while, but held back because I didn’t feel like “manufacturing” images from photoshop, but I decided to give my regular seascape photos a different look. This is a composite of two horizontal images, both shot at 17mm with the same exposure settings.
My 17mm lens on my 5D body can’t produce this super wide angle view with a single frame. By combining two shots, I get about 40% more of the sky in my final image. Needless to say, the final image is fairly big (a combination of two 12.8 mega pixels images). I cropped out about 20% of the final merged image to reduce some edge distractions and merge errors. Since I was in the mode of “manufacturing images”, I also gave the final image a steeper S curve than my normal curve adjustment.
My biggest problem while shooting these was that I just couldn’t keep my filters clean. After a few minutes of shooting, mist and sea sprays coated my filters with layers of salt water particles. These salt water sprays are more visible in direct sunlight. I will have to think about carrying soap and fresh water to rinse my filters :(
This is a 180° view from my ten minutes later shot, Sky Cake.
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- Published:
- August 19, 2008 at 12:44 am
Equipment + EXIF Info
- Camera:
- Canon EOS 5D
- Lens:
- Canon EF 17-40mm F4L USM
- Filter:
- Lee hard-edge GND 0.9
- Tripod:
- Gitzo GT3530S 6x + RRS BH-55 LR ballhead
- EXIF:
- [F122] [1/6s] [17mm] [ISO 100]
- Exposure Mode:
- Manual
- Date Taken:
- August 14, 2008
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