Pano from the past

Posted by Philip in Old Photo Critique

Wow.  I was looking through some old digital photos and found a pano I did back in June of 2002 in Shenandoah, VA.  This was taken with my handy Olympus D360L.  That was my first digital camera.  I got it because of it’s really good low light sensitivity (for that point in time) and the fact that it ran on regular AA batteries.  It was incredibly slow to respond when you hit the shutter button, but for a point and shoot it had what I was looking for, wonderfully clear and bright photos.

Even though this was shot midday, there are a few positive points about the photo.

1. It’s nicely framed between the rocks on the right and the sharp drop-off on the left.
2. The clouds made some interesting shadows on the mountains.
3. There is a lot of contrast.
4. The subject is clear… sorta.  In this case I see the subject to be the valley on the left.  The flow of the image takes you that direction.

All-in-all this makes for a good landscape photo, even from a 1 megapixel camera.  What would make this better?  More foreground elements.  You can’t tell if the viewer is standing or flying.  What do you think?  Please feel free to comment below.