Hilltop Farm - The Yorkshire Dales

Hilltop farm, Yorkshire Dales

After my previous post, I thought I'd share another photograph from the Yorkshire Dales trip earlier this year.  Compare it with the photograph in the previous post and the differences between the high moorland and the lower-level stone walled fields are stark.

Looking at my work over the last year I'm seeing a trend towards more panoramic and square format landscapes.  I find this trend interesting.  It seems to have started quite unconsciously, grown and is now something I really like!  Each panoramic photograph is the result of merging 2 - 5 normal sized images.  Thus the resulting photograph can be large both in print and binary file size. Processing these large images does take noticeably longer and more compute resource.  A recent image from Dartmoor consisted of 5 x normal sized images - that's 250M pixel!  Just for comparison, the new iPhone X has a 12M pixel camera.  Rock on :-)

With this trend towards panoramic's I've also noticed I'm using wide-angle lenses less as features become too small.  My go to lens is now a standard lens (50mm) as it gives that little bit of magnification.

But large photographs really need to be seen full-size but therein lies a problem.  So much detail is lost when they are shrunk to fit social media and small screened computers such as laptops. Such a shame :-(

Andy