The Photographer's Black and White Handbook by Harold Davis Phyllis Davis

Author:Harold Davis, Phyllis Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

As I walked the Kumano Kodo spiritual path in rural Japan, each day’s weather was different—some days sunny and warm, others misty, and some days rainy. But following the path meant going out and trekking, no matter what the weather

Hiking through a steady, cold rain, I paused at a lookout about half a mile before reaching Hyakken-gura, my next dry resting place for the night. Peering out from beneath my umbrella, I saw the wide vista of the Kumano Sanzen Roppyaku Po, which translates to “view of 3,600 peaks of Kumano.” I could see through the pine trees to a distant landscape where the cloud cover seemed to be breaking up. The view seemed to call for a panorama, so I mounted my camera on my tripod. As the wind gusted, rain splattered my face and my camera lens and tripod, so it was pretty hard to make notes to keep track of the positioning of the frames in the panorama. I had to work hard to keep myself—and more important—my camera dry. As I wiped the rain off my glasses and out of my eyes, I realized that the weather was a part of the spiritual scenery that makes the Kumano Kodo so special. After all, you can’t capture a clearing storm unless you are out in the weather to begin with.

This is a high-resolution panorama, shot in 10 separate sections with my 36MP Nikon D800. The final, full-size processed file measures 12,256 x 4,747 pixels at 300 ppi.

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