Piana
viewed from Capu d'Ortu summit
Buses maneuvering carefully on a mountain road near Piana, Corsica, France. UNESCO WH Site.
Looks nice in Lightbox, but even better at Original...
Our second day on corsica back in October. Sunny weather and a blue sky. Not the best for landscape photography but still I found some interesting shot. I was drawn to the two colors of that little scrub, since it shows the transition from summer to autumn. Also this gave me some nice rgb color trilogy in the photo with the blue sky above.
I needed three different focussed shots here for dof. The bush is only less than 2 feet wide and so I had to get down very low and close. To get everything sharp I used f/11 and focused to the foreground, middle and background to be on the safe side.
The stacking of the shots was as easy as in my start2finish tutorial ( mibreit-photo.com/blog/). No automatic stacking needed for this.
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**Calanques de Piana, UNESCO World Heritage Site. **
A calanque (from the Corsican word of pre-Indo-European origin calanca (plural calanche) with...
Porto bay viewed from Capu d'Ortu summit
On the walk up to Capu d'Ortu
A little hike brings you to this beautiful outcrop in the Calanche Region of Corsica. I was a bit overwhelmed by all the possible compositions and all the rocks and when the sun appeared again under the clouds I stuck with this one. I'm not 100% happy but the 4/5 crop looks quite ok with the strong center.
I used a lee 0.6 soft and a lee 0.6 hard gnd here. I also had to employ some focus stacking to get foreground to background sharp at f/11. Same technique as in my start2finish tutorial.
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Genoese tower viewed from Capu d'Ortu summit
Got inspired by U2's 1986 Joshua Tree album cover during the processing of this shot, hence the title.
**Single RAW, not a HDR. PP with Nik Silver...