Panoramic Landscapes
Nicolai1988

Panoramic Landscapes

March 2024

Entry 18238289
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Crowd
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Entry 18969649
1st
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Brief

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Sweeping vistas have a big wow punch about them, and do a great job of conveying the vastness of a landscape in a smaller form. Nowadays software does an amazing job of stitching together a bunch of photos for you, or maybe you’ve got a super-wide lens and a simple crop is all that’s needed. We’re looking for any kind of landscape, including urban ones if that’s your bag, but the image must be panoramic, meaning that it is a lot wider than it is tall.

5,420 Images entered

2,728 Photographers

207,629 Ratings

Entry 18237120
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I like how simplistic you have made this image look, but as always it never is as easy as that. I love the tones of the black and white work, but also the movement in the grasses in the foreground, these add to the image and I don't find them overly distracting either.

Entry 18265259
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You have captured some stunning conditions, I like the golden light transitioning into the blues, these work so well, when you factor in the sharp details of the lighthouse you have a very well-presented image. The details throughout the rest of the shot are so well-preserved too.

Seeing images such as this one really has made judging this competition so nice. I love your choice for the letterbox presentation to pull the viewer's eye into the crucial part of the shot, that gorgeous backdrop of the sky with the rugged textures of the stones themselves. A really well-balanced and proportioned shot that I am so happy to see in the top 10

Entry 18363136
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Expert
winner

This is a gorgeous location shot with the scene being set nicely with the blacks of the water and the whites of the trees running through the shot. One of the big stand-out things in the shot is the use of both panoramic shooting skills and also that of the infra-red work, resulting in a truly amazing piece of work, thank you very much for sharing it with us.

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I really liked this image as I love the balance of the free going out both ways in the frame, this makes for some interesting lines within the shot. I like how you have also opted to shoot it in the mist, as this has given it another mystical feeling..

I like your attention to detail with the trees making up such an important part of the image, then the nice highlight in the middle of the frame draws your eye into the pathway and through the image, that is nicely done.. Just be mindful of the focus on the trees as they look like they could be a little bit sharper.

Entry 18237121
1224th
69

I like the positioning of the house and the road in the frame, then with the white house being offset against the dark vegetation really is good. Just be mindful of the highlights too, as some of those are blown out and can be distracting.

Entry 18237178
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Entry 18237179
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I really like this landscape you have captured, the roughness of the rocks with water flowing through them is nice to look at and the details are nice and rich. The use of black and white has worked well and also the use of a wider fov to show so much of the stunning location

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Entry 18238164
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This was another gorgeous image that was so nice to see, I was here at the end of 2023 and it was horrible drizzly weather, this is the kind of shot I would have been so happy walking away with, detail, movement and colour-rich. Its so nice to see you have done a great job by hanging around such a while after sunset, something so many of us can be very guilty of doing.

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Entry 18542858
37th
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I like the location of your image and the way the red and golden light fills the frame in abundance. The way that light just paints everything it touches, and leaves everything feeling soft, yet the details are still tack sharp. Everything feels well proportioned and the image as it is is also nicely balanced. A nice piece of work.

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Entry 19097260
2nd
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This is another great image to have in the 10 for this round. I really like how you have used the road to lead you up to the Château and also that we can see so much in the frame, thus really setting the location of the building so well. But to have then done this and to have caught all these stunning colours and mist is just spectacular. Well done.

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Entry 19679407
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This is such a lovely minimalist image but it sums up this location so well, so many people flock to the peaks to see the cloud inversions you have captured it all so well, but also with some very nice soft pastel colours that complement it all so well.

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Entry 19739110
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I like your attention to detail with the trees making up such an important part of the image, then the dark moody sky crossed with the lights of the crops in the field and you have a very nicely blanched but punchy image, thank you so much for sharing your amazing work with us

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