Shinjuku Hanami, a photo from Tokyo, Kanto

Photographer's Note

A fine day in April when the cherry blossom is blooming brings just about everybody into the parks for "Hanami", or cherry blossom viewing, (literally flower watching).
This panorama, three digital photos stitched together from the Shinjuku Gyoen Park shows how crowded it can get. We pitched our blue plastic sheet too and claimed our two square metres for a few hours.

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CedarBough (74) 2003-04-07 10:13

I am impressed by your digital stitching, but unfortunately the shot is too small to see the details you need to see in a shot like this, and appears to lack clarity... however, if the shot is clear and it was viewed large (20 inches wide or so) I think it'd probably be very good.

BobTrips (1857) 2003-04-07 22:03

Hi Martin, I'm having trouble with this one.

Let me get the good stuff out the way first. Good use of pano to display the crowd. Good technique stitching the pics together.

Well composed, you've got lots to look at, depth, balance, and all those other things that don't come to mind because they're not missing.

(A bit of sharpening should help.)

Here's your scores: V1T1.

Now. Help me out. I don't get the impact of spring/cherry trees that I would have expected if someone had told me I was going to see the cherry festival. There's no zip, zing, pop!

Is this screen shot consistent with what you saw? Were the colors more vibrant?

Maybe my expectations are different from reality?

adam (860) 2003-04-08 2:57

I really appreciate this shot, the panorama captures the environment perfectly with all those people visible in foreground and the incredible cherry blossoms throughout the length of the image.