0.8 Tree Portraits
Read MoreTree 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 a lot of these red cedar (Juniperis Virginiaa) at at RAGS, This particular one has a different shape than the others, and is still in a landscaping place of honor even though the landscaping around it has changed a lot. I like how the snow outlines the branches and makes a nice portrait costume. Also how the snow makes this half done landscaping look almost complete.
The oak is taking a nap and enjoying the fact that overcast sky makes photographing her nake limbs difficult. There are technques for removing it, but I think the way this particular exposure is showing purple fringing is rather nice, almost as if showing the potential green. Well, actually not a single exposure, either. A vertical panorama using four overlapping images a second or so apart.