This is a five shot composite taken in the woods behind my house. It is to some extent a Pep Ventosa, as I did alter my position around the central tree, but I intentionally masked out many of the surroundings and kept the main elements from a central image. I'm interested in finding out what the group thinks of this image, and particularly wondering if I had any masking errors. There was one spot that gave me trouble. If you're up for a challenge, see if you can find it.
Interesting take on the technique Matthew. In many ways, this looks like an ICM pan rather that the effect of the 'in the round' technique
I really can't see your masking 'error', so perhaps you are being too critical on yourself.
I suspect you had to mask out the strong lines of 'duplicate' trees created with the 5 images. The Ventosa technique works best with a large number of images where background elements can overlay and details become dissolved.
BTW - Pep Ventosa will be the key featured artist and white an article in the December edition of the ICMphotoMag magazine. If you are interested in ICM, or Pep in particular it is well worth the $10 cost of admission. The past issues have been full of quality works, along with tips etc.
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Thank you for taking the time to look at the image. It is in a strange grey area as to the technique. This is five images taken from different positions, but each one was an ICM pan. I was limited to the five images due to the surroundings of the central tree. It only had sparse woods around it on a few angles, and any other angles I would try had houses or sheds in the background. I hope one day to get out to a true forest and try my luck there.
The section of the image I had trouble with was the dark tree to the right of the subject. It was blending with the thin tree to its right in some versions I had of the image. Taking a look at it now, you are right. I was simply being too critical of myself.
That makes sense Matthew, I still can't see any masking issues so I think you are good on this one.
Don't worry so much about the background. By overlaying a large number of shots around the subject things like houses etc disappear. This is a test image I took in my front yard - living in a development we were surrounded by houses etc, not that you can tell.