Duncombe Park Photo

Photographer’s Note

Duncombe Park is the home of Charles Duncombe, Lord Feversham, and his wife, Lady Feversham. (Duncombe is the family name; Feversham is the title) It is in the small market town of Helmsley close to the castle. Open from May to October, it has over 400 acres of grounds with three different walks to enjoy. Entry to the house itself is by guided tour only.

The house was originally built in 1713, but was gutted by fire in 1879. Restoration began in 1891 and completed in 1894. For a period of 60 years from 1924 the house was leased out to a girl’s school, but the present Lord & Lady Feversham decided to make it their home and have re-decorated the rooms as closely to the original decoration as possible.

This is my first “real” panorama on TE. It is a stitch of 7 vertical images. As it is my 500th post I decided to try something new for me. Please look at the large version to see the architectural details.

ISO 200

Added later
Now it's uploaded I'm disappointed with the quality of the LP. I had 6 attempts to upload it. According to PS it was the correct size but TE wouldn't accept it so I had to reduce the quality with even more compression.

2nd addition
Thanks to Jean Yves I managed to reduce the size and re-do the LP. I think it's better now.
K

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barni (14569) 2007-08-27 1:04

Hello Kath
500 images ???? Bravo pour l'exploit.
Très beau panorama sur ce chateau.
Regards
Christophe

InasiaJones (20705) 2007-08-27 1:09

Hi Kath!

Congratulations for this amazing milestone of 500 photos! Not only an impressive amount, but also a regularity in quality.

This outstanding stitched image is a great way to celebrate the grand occasion. The symetrical architecture was relevant for this centered composition and a perfect subject for a large panorama. The colours in the sky and on the ground are vivid and vibrant and create an interesting contrast with the austerity of the castle.

Best regards! Bravo for this achievement!

André

besnard (31114) 2007-08-27 1:11

Bonjour Kath
Bravo pour ta 500ème. Voilà un vrai panoramique bien réussi. Pour un essai, c'est un coup de maître. C'est du beau travail sur un sujet intéressant, je ne vois pas les raccords.
Merci pour le partage et bonne journée.
Nicole

kiwi_explorer (12195) 2007-08-27 1:16

Hi Kath,
Beautiful panoramic scene of such a stunning castle. Good use of border to fill up the upper and lower part of the photo. Very good image and color quality... excellent work. Perfect posting to celebrate your 500th ... a big achievement. Congratulations! tfs
Cheers,
Renier

carper (65742) 2007-08-27 1:30

the big one is nice Kath,
a fantastic pov and a fine quality, the details are very good, you did do a very good photojob here, congratiolation.
gr. jaap

PixelTerror (86861) 2007-08-27 2:06

Hi Kath,
Congratulations for your 500th post, you've been around for a while now building yur nice gallery and I enjoy meeting you here regularly, best wishes for the continuation !
For a first stitch attempt, it's a very good result, first you found a subject calling for this format, the leading path gives some depth and you have nice clouds (though a little bit pixellated in the large version) to give plenty of interest to the sky, then the manor is the perfect place to held such an anniversary party, I'm already on my way to the Easyjet web site to find out how to attend it ;-))
Meanwhile, you might already take off the first champagne cork, you've earned it Madame !
Have a nice day,
Jean-Yves

amaryllis (17844) 2007-08-27 2:16

Bonjour
quoi dire? superbe panorama de ce chateau avec un ciel avec nuages
un très bon cadrage
Bravo
juliette

cbrman (19051) 2007-08-27 2:27

Hello Kath,

Une version large impressionnante par sa taille mais dont la résolution laisse un peu à désirer ! Les artefacts dûs à la compression JPG sont très nombreux et gâchent quelque peu le plaisir de l'observateur !
Sinon, la perspective est splendide sur ce beau monument !
Bravo !

A+

Dominique

Mondaychild (1513) 2007-08-27 2:35

Hi Kath,

congratulations to your 500th post! I think it was a lot of work to get this one, how long did it take you to get all these photos taken and stitched?

Concerning this photo itself, I like the black borders as I think a panorama post like this one needs a strong border. The texture of the sky is great. Well, the white borders are perhaps a bit too thick ... and the panorama post (which was indeed a good idea) could be larger. That´s the problem with this site (although I´m addicted to it) ... it also often happens to me that after posting, some photos look quite different to those I actually wanted to post ...

rbcy1974 (20746) 2007-08-27 3:31

HellO Kath
Congratulations on your 500th photo, very nice panoramic take, it provides nice symetry. THere are a few dark points in the details of the castle, but overall the photo is quite nice.
Regards
Daniel

asajernigan (14304) 2007-08-27 3:49

Kath,
Congratulations on you 500th post, thanks for sharing so many wonderful photos with us. Your composition is great here presenting a well balanced photo with good symmetry. The lighting and colors are great here with nice sharpness and DOF.
TFS,
Asa

cobbydale (1924) 2007-08-27 3:50

An impressive panorama Kath and good for you for trying something new on your 500th post - congratulations. The quality on the LP seems OK to me , it's often a struggle to keep file size down and retain quality. Considering how much is included in the shot you've done a great job of maintaining the correct perspective.
cheers
Leon

delkoo (34810) 2007-08-27 3:51

hi kath
i'm a lover of these pictures, full of details and technically very well managed and handled.

regards
didier
Congratulations for your 500 photos.

giorgimer (21478) 2007-08-27 4:04

Hi Kath,

perfect, really perfect. Perfect format, perfect colors. I like a lot your images.

Well done!!

Gio

ChrisJ (70443) 2007-08-27 4:36

Hi Kath

Perfect symmetry of the horizontal buildings, & nice compositional layering & division into thirds. Good saturated colour, & reasonable sharpness. Congratulations!

ktanska (16695) 2007-08-27 5:42

Hi Kath,
Congratulations!
A seven image stitch on that kind of perspective requires a lot of fitting. Was it automatic or handicraft work?
Impressive English style pompous place. Strong contrasts. I like those weather beaten building stones.
Kari

Floydian (30970) 2007-08-27 7:40

He is good Kath, very good. Better than the pre-production concept. Here the colours are more neutral and less saturated which gives the whole castle a very nice look withoutm overdoing things.
The 400kb is indeed a struggle, they should raise it to at least 800 with a maximum of 2000px, which results in a much better compression factor.
Congrats to your no:500...i am sure i will not make it that far.....i think ;-)
Really a good stitch..!!!
Regards, Henk

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vbl (1402) 2007-08-27 10:00

Hi Kath:
Nice panoramic photo. Good colors and compo.
congratulations for your 500th photos.
regards vanessa

UlfE (9188) 2007-08-27 10:30

Hi Kath,

Congratulations to your 500th post. A very impressive number. Especially, taking into account the very high quality of your collection of pictures. I really like that you tried something a little bit different for your No. 500. Your large version of your panorama is absolutely fantastic and I am really impressed that it is a stitch of seven vertical images. A superb job to say the least.

Cheers,

Ulf

Didi (36516) 2007-08-27 11:47

Hi Kath
Nice stitch for this architecture it's an ineresting first experience.
However I suggest decreasing the sharpeness levels because that is multiplied by ten on the large post.
Cheers

delic (6735) 2007-08-27 11:49

Hello Kath,
A truly impressive stitch work of this impressive castle. The LP version is really something. You did very well. Congratulations on the 500th!
Best wishes,
Hakan

Tue (25608) 2007-08-27 12:56

Hej Kath,
Congratulations on your 500th post on TE and your first panorama view! I find it a very successful one, good quality and excellent stitching work. I like the almost symmetrical view with the path in the middle of the very green lawns. The architecture of the building looks very majestic. Well done and thanks for sharing!
Regards,
Lars

guillaumejm (32) 2007-08-27 14:07

Hello kath
So for the "first real" one it is great. With specially perfect light and colours. It look like a 3 dimensional picture.
And happy 500° post!.
Kind regards
JMarc

gilou530 (35710) 2007-08-27 14:16

salut kath
la version large nous laisse vraiment admirer ce magnifique et somptueux chateaux, un cadrage et un assemblage parfait
amitiés
gilbert

jwmunro (6255) 2007-08-27 14:33

Hello Kath -

500? Wow! I like the panorama but it looks a bit small to me. I am not an expert as I have never posted one, but I have thought about it. I looked at the LP and you did a very good job with the stitching as there are no visible anomalies. Does the landscape start to rise on the right 1/4th of the image? or, is the horizon a touch out of level? I think you have done a bang up job on this one and is worth of more than 2x:) so here are 2 more for what it's worth :):). Well done!

Thank you for sharing.

John

mickyg (815) 2007-08-27 14:33

Good work and Kudos for trying something different .. you did well stitching the shots together Kath but .... Pano's don't show up to well at only 800 wide .. you lose the whole point of producing them as they are designed to show more but the size restrictions kill that dead. .. congrats on the big 500 .

lukie (0) 2007-08-27 14:39

Hello Kath,

only two words : absolutely fabolous !

regards,

Luc.

Stepan (27175) 2007-08-27 14:45

First of all, I wish you a happy "500th".
Second, it's cool to have tried something new.
Third, it works and it's ok to me (I like the flashing green grass).
Stéphane

plimrn (19740) 2007-08-27 18:15

Hi Kath,
It is the perfect image for your 500!! It is totally English, the detail and light management are perfect, the stitching impeccable, and the large version is just as sharp as the small version. Of course I love that sky!! I've learned so much from you and enjoyed your posts over the past two years; I do look forward to your next 500.
HLJ, Pat

darrasin (2860) 2007-08-27 20:50

Hello Kath! Congrats on 500! The subject lends itself perfectly to the panorama, I will try my hand shortly at one from Ireland. The colors are perfectly saturated and the frame works really well too!

Well done!
Doug

Emile (20151) 2007-08-27 22:42

Hola Kath.
Congratulation for four different things, first for your 500th shot posted in TE, second for your excellent work with the 7 stitches, third for your very good first large panorama posted and Fourth for the superb shot of the castle.
Very well done.
Best regards.

Graal (58786) 2007-08-27 23:25

Hi Kath,
congratulations for Your 500th post in TE! Great panoramic view, excellent quality of photo. Beautiful place and interesting informations. I like it.
Gr., Aleksander

bibiweb (8) 2007-08-28 0:04

Hello Kath,
Congratulations for your 500 images on TE. That's quite a milestone! Though I may not leave a comment on each one of them I do visit your gallery on a regular basis and really enjoy the variety of photos that you have posted here.
I've read the messages that you exchanged with JY regarding the quality of the large post and can confirm that the it is now perfect!
Keep up the excellent work Kath and best wishes for your next 500 posts.
Have a nice day,
Brigitte

vincz (19045) 2007-08-28 0:30

First congratulations on your 500th! That a very big numbers of pictures... Interesting experiment, i never tried myself so far, maybe when I reach 500 but it will take while! The result is very impressive and I saw the difference between the Lp you posted this morning and the new one later which clearly is a better reduced version of your original view. No more issues in the sky and we can fully admire the beautiful architecture and sky.

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Henryk_Bilor (20371) 2007-08-28 1:33

Hello Kath
I didn`t see the previoius version, but this one is beautiful. Great panorama of this architectural masterpiece. Good point of view and quality of the image.
Have a nice day.

danyy (69499) 2007-08-28 4:12

Bonjour Kath,
un fabuleux assemblage de plusieurs photos, le résultat est partait, pas de traces de jointures.
Des couleurs franches et nettes, des contrastes très forts .
Une vue qui se prête bien à un panoramique.
Bravo pour ce 500e post.

dANIEL

vonp (2235) 2007-08-28 4:51

Ciao Kath,
Congratulations for your 500!!!!
I like it so much! Wonderful green and blue.
The last LP version looks very good.
See you soon...
Paolo

Cricri (43790) 2007-08-28 8:06

Hi Kath,
Félicitation pour cette 500éme...une version large qui esrt un plaisir d'ouvrir, sutout quand elle sont bien faite comme içi, belle lumiére, couleurs et détails impeccables, compliment
friendship
cricri

Photo65Net (43096) 2007-08-28 10:35

Kath,
Wow, the large version is just amazing, with so beautiful colors on the frontages.
A nice compo, a perfect job on the assembly too.
Regards,
JB.

josepmarin (34131) 2007-08-28 11:25

Hello Kath,
Congratulations for your 500th post. Nice number, and fantastic gallery.
Your first stitch has given a great result, and you have obtained a setting with the beautiful panoramic one of this castle, with a symmetrical image of three buildings, with the way that gives a great sensation of depth, and the great contrast with the green grass, the trees and the sky.
A really fantastic work. The large version has a great quality of image and allows us to enjoy this sober and elegant architecture.
Excellent note, as usual.
Friendly regards,
Josep

chrisnet (20376) 2007-08-28 13:00

Hello Kath,
All my congrtatulations for your 500th! I like this very beautiful castle, excellent symetry and perspective, the sky is wonderful, nice work.
Regards
Christian

Rosa (4147) 2007-08-28 13:38

Bonsoir Kath,
Félicitation pour cette 500 eme, une très belle version panoramique, exellent cadrage, encore bravo.
Amitié,
Rosa.

dodo (26) 2007-08-28 15:06

Hi Kath this is truly a wonderful picture'congratulations on your 500th post
the colours are excellent and the panoramic view;TFS
Dot.

izmirli (3287) 2007-08-28 15:28

merhaba dear kath
wonderful panoromic picture and depth.wonderful colours and duncombe park.
best regards.
gürkan akçakır.

berek (29041) 2007-08-28 22:37

Hi Kath,
congratulations for your 500th picture. this is the great number . I like this first panorama . very good perspective and details. have a nice day.
B.Erek

fayeulle (26547) 2007-08-29 1:09

Hi Kath
Congratulation on you 500th. A very impressive panoramic shot with high quality. Waiting for the next 100!
Cheers
JP

John_F_Kennedy (32032) 2007-08-29 3:35

Congratulations!!! Thnaks for so many beautifil imgaes you share with us.

A perfect format for this castle. It is so impressive. Well done.
Best wishes,
Achim

jlbrthnn (39039) 2007-08-29 4:53

Hello Kath,
Congratulations for the 500ème, and the technical performance of assembly. It is a superb photography on this "modest" residence. Your note is interesting. Cheer.
Good Day
Cordially
Joel

john_c (24635) 2007-08-29 7:36

Hi Kath,
Congrats on your 500th post. Definitely a successful stitch job. The overall quality and clarity of detail is very good, as can be seen on viewing the large version especially. Here the panorama format works well. I love the smoothness of the foreground lawn and driveway. You managed the lighting well. Cheers.
John

patdeph (18348) 2007-08-29 12:45

hello Kath
superb work very well done!Wonderful and strong colours and much nice details of the casle!Magnificent!
Have a nice evening.
Pascale

papagolf21 (56765) 2007-08-29 14:29

Bonjour, mon amie Kath,
Pour la 500ème publication, il fallait bien cette merveilleuse photographie architecturale façon panorama pour donner toute la magnificence des lieux.
Félicitations, mon amie, pour cette 500ème et pour toutes les photos présentées, c'est toujours un régal assuré pour les yeux.
Amitiés.
Philippe

mortijo (12416) 2007-08-29 14:56

First of all my sincerest congratulations with your 500th posting. It is, as usual, of outstanding quality! The stitch is perfect and the colours are vivid.
Thanks for sharing.
John.

ahmetgedikli (22141) 2007-08-29 15:46

Hi Kath,
Congratulations to your 500th post... This is a wonderful panoramic photo. I like the colours and the lighting. Excellent work, best wishes.
Ahmet

pboehringer (770) 2007-08-30 10:38

Kath, the shot and your stitch technique are flawless. Regarding the LP I tend not to use the higher end of size but somewhere in the lower end. Two reasons:
1) I don't like huge LP beacuse I have to scroll around to see the picture and I prefer it with one glance
2) A smaller LP gives less compression artifacts and I thimk that was your original problem until JY intervened. Right?
The place and architecture looks gorgeous, but I don't a singel sympathy with a person owning this and throwing out a school so that he can use it for his own purpose. Such a snob! Sorry for my language ... but something leaves quite hot headed and is certainly not adequate anymore in our globalized society where the differences between rich and poor are getting worse by the minute!
Regards, Peter

leonorkuhn (14071) 2007-08-31 8:06

Hi Kath,

Congratulations for your 500th post! You give us a gift with these excellent photos.
Very beautiful panorama, I like the simmetry, the nice colors and good details.

GREETINGS!!!
Leonor

gneufeld (15235) 2007-08-31 17:21

Hi Kath,
Congratulations on your 500th post - and what a shot it is! The wide panorama view works perfectly as you present this very historic place. The details is incredible - great work and TFS. Gerald

noborders (14201) 2007-09-01 2:12

I cannot comment technically, to me it seems perfect and the perspective is superb, the composition pleases me but personally I prefer the small places in the English countryside that you depict so well, they have a great intimistic feel - anyway, this rather pretentious building could not be better portrayed for a general view, it seems to me !
Congratulations for your 500th post, I am impressed by this photo, and have a good weekend,
Cath.

jpinkham (848) 2007-09-01 6:47

Congratulations on the 500th post, Kath, and a very fine pano with a great note, to boot! I really love the colors and sharpness and the simplicity yet completeness of the point of view. The clouds and lines add a lot to this. And as for the framing and the rest, you like as though you'd been at this for years. BTW, pretty nice final result on the LP, too. I'll have to try out Jean's technique myself.

Best,
Jim

Angshu (34141) 2007-09-01 21:43

Hi Kath
500 posts & still going strong! Heartiest congratulations! Good idea to do something different, a stitch & the large version. IMO the smaller version doesn't do much justice for this & when I opened the large version, I could see the place with all it's glory. Very good work with the stitch. Once again congratulations & keep up your excellent work!
Regards
Angshu

riclopes (33135) 2007-09-02 10:08

7 vertical images?!? 500th post?!? Wow, congratulations for all that, Kath. I don't know how was your first LP, but this one is quite impressive, with excellent details and contrasts. And it has the right height for my lap top :) The central composition is perfect and the cloudy sky is enhancing. It's a really attractive image and a very successful first "real" panorama.
Ricardo

Yffic (6106) 2007-09-02 11:12

Hi Kath.

Superb choice for your 500th picture.
I love panoramas and I like very much this one: the full symmtry is a good choice.
Details are greats.

Regards.

Yves

hdl (6737) 2007-09-04 4:43

Hi Kath. Impressive structure; the LP is breathtaking. Bravo!

stego (22482) 2007-09-04 16:01

Hi Kath,

Congratulations! 500 is a respectable number!

You commemorate the event with an gorgeous photo! The view is superb and all the technical details, of the shots themselves, their PP and the stitch looks right on the spot. I am already used to your special talent for such shots, but even so it is highly admirable how you ventured yourself in making your first pano with 7(!) images and it sorted out so well.

It sounds almost bad taste making an effort to find less great things on such a post. I only find two:
It looks like too much USM, but I guess that this is one of those cases in which is preferable like that than to appear too smooth. Anyway, that foliage certainly makes it very hard to fit the TE limits.

Another thing that looks strange is the elevation on the right end, but it is only noticeable after a much careful look and probably I wouldn't have found it if I hadn't read jwmunro's critique.

You aren't the first person that complains about the difficulty in producing a file that fits the TE limits minimizing the quality loss. I don't use PS, but I never had such a problem with Gimp - it is never wrong in the calculation of the number of bytes of the saved file. Maybe PS hasn't such a fine scale to adjust the quality/compression. Gimp being free and occupying only 60 Mb of hard disk space, maybe a viable option for such more trickier cases is to save the final image with maximum quality in PS and then open it in Gimp, just to save it again with the adequate compression.

Regards, José.

IgorDeleze (9247) 2007-09-05 2:32

Hello Kath,
It's never to late to give you my congratullations for these 500 great pictures on TE !
The large version of this one is simply stunning.
Great work.
Greetings.
Igor

jmcl (14149) 2007-09-07 23:07

Hi Kath,

Congrats on 500 posts .. Something about the palette goes really well with the architecture and "sculpting" of the place. Wonderful stitch. I love the contrast level .. very wonderful .. Hope we are blessed with another 500 many times over.

take care,

John

sergio1 (12150) 2007-09-11 9:45

Hi Kath

Lovely postcard and great compo. I like very much this picture and frame.

Well done.
Sergio

Greg1949 (8519) 2007-09-12 16:33

kath,

Love these types of panoramas of regal old structures. I think this is exactly what the builders had in mind when they constructed them; people being impressed by the grandure of it all.

You shot has incredible detail and the color is great, great capture.

Greg

marietom (32084) 2007-09-13 2:26

Joli panoramique, où même les nuages incitent le regard à aller voir ce qui se passe dans la bâtisse.
Marie

coco (28146) 2007-09-14 0:23

House?

This is something more than a House....

Hi Kath and, late, congratulations for your 500th post.

You made a good work with the composition and with the 7 seven pictures. And the photo looks very attractive.

Thanks for sharing these 500 photos.

Carlos.

JCG (25753) 2007-10-07 11:28

Hi Kath,

With a lot of delay, I congratulate you on this 500th post. Superb panorama of this magnificent castle in the interesting architecture. A symmetry is perfect. An attractive and interesting work, cheer Kath.

With all my friendships and a good night,

Jean-Charles