3 Kiva Panorama

[AlanLichty]

I have wanted to visit the 3 Kiva ruins ever since MonikaC posted a shot of the inside a little while back. I got my chance yesterday afternoon when I mooched a ride with Doug Sherman and a friend out to the site in Montezuma Canyon. We visited the site fairly late in the day and had some very nice indirect light with some clouds holding back the sunlight. I was lucky and scored a bit of a sun shaft while I was taking this sequence.

This is a panorama stitched from 3 portrait panels using shift on a 24mm TS-E lens.

3 Kiva Pano

• AlanLichty
• Apr 25, 2018

A TS-E panorama of a kiva at the 3 Kiva site in Montezuma Canyon.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Ben Egbert]

That is one great lens isn't Alan. I am sort of sorry I sold mine, but I had trouble focusing. This is a great example of what it can do in capable hands.

 

[JimFox]

I didn't sell my TSE like Ben, but I don't use mine nearly enough it seems. The last time I pulled it out I was having so many issues getting it set up, and the sunset was getting so close that I had to put it away as I didn't want to lose the sunset.

Now this is really cool. And it's great that you could hitch a ride out there with Doug. It's lit up pretty nice.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Very nice Alan. Nice composition and the light is perfect as well.

A minor nit - a couple of triangular spots in the upper left corner can do with cloning out.

 

[MonikaC]

Much better seen here than on your phone, Alan! I love my 24mm TS-E during wildflower season -- no painstaking efforts at merging moving stems & blossoms that end in a fail (at least at 100%) more often than not. I kind of wish you had 1 more frame to the left as what you have of the ladder is more of a distraction than informative element. Those shiny bolts in the ladder, when I shot it, didn't show up at all in the exposure. I was cringing when I shot as they seemed as bright as the North Star, but that was the angle I wanted, and somehow they were all dark.

 

[AlanLichty]

Much better seen here than on your phone, Alan! I love my 24mm TS-E during wildflower season -- no painstaking efforts at merging moving stems & blossoms that end in a fail (at least at 100%) more often than not. I kind of wish you had 1 more frame to the left as what you have of the ladder is more of a distraction than informative element. Those shiny bolts in the ladder, when I shot it, didn't show up at all in the exposure. I was cringing when I shot as they seemed as bright as the North Star, but that was the angle I wanted, and somehow they were all dark.

Yeah - looking at this on my iPhone wasn't the best way to view it

I did take another panorama sequence from the west side looking back that has no ladder. This was just the first set I processed. I wasn't sure about including the ladder with those bolts.

 

[Mike Mancil]

An excellent shot to show the interesting structure. Stacking stones was pretty Fred Flintstone by then but that innovative roof had to have been radical at that time (probably called the engineer Chief Fulton). Good stuff.