[Leica] revisiting Monument Valley with a panorama

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Adam Bridge showed:
Subject: [Leica] revisiting Monument Valley with a panorama


 > This is a three-panel panorama taken within five miles of the entrance
> to the Navajo Triball Park at Monument Valley.
>
> <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2004-October/MonumentValleyPanorama.jpg>

Hi Adam,

Surely one for the wall!  Good on you!! :-) And if one didn't know it was 
stitched, they'd think it was a wide angle or whatever angle to capture a 
beautiful scenic.

I small question for your reaction.

When the picture came up on my screen my initial re-action was "Oh why 
didn't he crop the road on the lower right corner and side?"  Not a vertical 
crop from the right border, but come up from the bottom. I realize this 
takes a fair chunk off the desert part and almost to the mountain, but it 
seems to strengthen the clouds and the monument formation even more. Some 
what elongating the photograph.

However, that's in the eye of the viewer and may not be so with the 
photographer. :-)

Your re-action to some kind of cropping as I explained? If any?

ted