2020 01 January Walkabouts
Read MoreMother oak on new year's day 2020
Taken with a Sony A7r4 and a SLR Magic 50mm T1.1 Cine lens with a polorizer giving me unintended vignetting.
Tree portraits often require being too close and then hoping to get a good vertical panorama. This is six images with about a 60 or 70 percent overlap. I've found that 20 or even 10 percent overlap works fine for horizontal panoramas, but for vertical ones, a much larger overlap is needed to keep from getting too much distortion. The side effect is that the final crop is usually tall and narrower than I'd like.
There are three pines and 4 spruce hiding here. The pines were from last year, the spruce from several years ago. I had not been paying much attetnion to them and not only are they almost buried in grass, they are also shaded by too many black locust. Images from May will show actions taken to provide more TLC this spring, in addition to dusting with sulfur powder (deer do not like the smell.)
In the middle distence is the pine grove -- one bent tree in front and three smaller ones way back. Also more pines and spruces between the pines, but very small ones at this point. Also more to the sides and behind where the photographer is standing. The black plastic is to keep the growth down in this area until the gazebo is built.