This week I managed to find a few hours to get up into
the mountains. Time was short so I
decided to do “Valle dell Inferno” or Hell valley on the Cerreto Pass.
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| Valle dell Inferno, Cerreto, RE |
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| Valle dell Inferno, Cerreto, RE |
This is a quite strenuous two hour each way walk due to
the fact that the last half a kilometre from Bivacco Rosario rises up 200
metres at the head of the valley. I was exhausted when I got to the top.
The weather was very changeable, so I did not find much
worth photographing on this trip. The view down to La Spezia is always super,
with the sea shimmering in the distance.
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| Valle dell Inferno, Cerreto, RE |
At the top of the mountain I found myself in the middle of swarms of flying ants and a
swarm of swallows hunting them down. The
climb was worthwhile just to watch the
acrobatics of the swallows.
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| Valle dell Inferno, Cerreto, RE |
By the time I had returned to the car, all the cloud
shrouding the mountain tops had disappeared
as is usual towards the evening.
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| Valle dell Inferno, Cerreto, RE |
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| Valle dell Inferno, Cerreto, RE |
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| Valle dell Inferno, Cerreto, RE |
I have been playing around with a Samyang 7.5mm fisheye
lens for the last couple of weeks. One of the reasons why I bought it was to
photograph the insides of a series of
medieval castles near to where I live.
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| Monte Lucio, Quattro Castella, RE |
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| Monte Lucio, Quattro Castella, RE |
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| Monte Lucio, Quattro Castella, RE |
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| Monte Vetro, Quattro Castella, RE |
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| Monte Vetro, Quattro Castella, RE |
I have used stitching software for the same purpose, but
it falls apart when there are a lot of tree branches.
The fisheye gives the same results without stitching when
careful framing takes into account the
lens distortion.
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| Monte Zagno, Quattro Castella, RE |
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| Monte Zagno, Quattro Castella, RE |
Further software magic using Panini projection to remove
some of the inevitable distortion is
getting me close to the results I want.
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| Monte Zagnoo, Quattro Castella, RE |
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| Monte Lucio, Quattro Castella, RE |
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| Monte Lucio, Quattro Castella, RE |
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