“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” – Paulo Coelho

What is your perspective? I get this question very often and it’s usually combined with how do I get the very clean edit at the end. So I decided to share some technical details in this post. This particular shot was taken at Wolf Point and it was my third attempt to try to capture the whole vista in one frame. I’ve tried few different approaches, using 3 different lenses, 3 different vantage points but the only one that worked was using the hyper wide 10mm from Voigtlander. The first lens was tilt shift, shifted up but it was introducing to much distortion at the end panorama. I was to lazy to spend very long time just trying to correct it. Second lens was 16mm wide and I wasn’t able to fit the left building in the frame. For the blending I again used few different exposures from few different moments in time and the best light from all of them to achieve the look I wanted. All the exposures were manually blended using luminosity masks for the seamless blend. All the detail extraction was also applied using the similar method. At the end I spend the longest trying to decide is the final image worth posting or not. I’ve been holding to this one since June. What do you think?

How often do you get frustrated with yourself? If I’m honest I get frustrated more often than I’m willing to admit. I’ve been waiting for a great sunset over this part of the town for a while and every time it happens I’m usually too busy doing some other things in life. But to my big surprise this evening was different and while the whole night went smooth I got what I was waiting for. I managed to pull the pano shot and blend the light before and after the sunset. What do you think?

Can you see the bright side? I think we should always look for it. I know that latest events didn’t leave is with a lot of positivity but hey I love seeing all the bridges up like this. What do you think?