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Looking north towards Lake Warner (foreground), Connecticut River, Mount Sugarloaf (South Deerfield) and Sunderland from an apple orchard in Hadley, Massachusetts. |
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On top of the White Street parking garage at Western Connecticut State University. Sort of a bland image, still just working out my panorama technique. Right side railing is screwed up as well. Taken in Danbury, CT. |
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360 degree panorama taken on June 27th, 2009. Approximately 200 individual garden plots in this panorama. |
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Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea is a great place to visit whenever you are in Connecticut. The seaport is a replica of an 1800's New England coastal town. Visitors get a chance to explore the wooden ships that are moored at the docks, and to see how a seaport supported the ships and crews. Don't forget to stop by the planetarium for a star show or for lessons in navigation.
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This is the same scene that I captured at http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=8664 (only it's a bit colder outside and the boats have come out of the water). The earlier panorama was shot on September 6, 2008 while this one was shot on January 20, 2009. The position of the camera for this shot was roughly 40 feet due North of the camera position used in the earlier shot (the icy conditions made it dangerous and impractical to set up the camera in the same position that it was originally set up in for the September shot).
This panorama has a much higher resolution (compared with the earlier shot) because it was taken with a Canon SX100IS camera (which features a 10X optical zoom), whereas the September panorama was taken with a Canon SD870IS with a maximum optical zoom of 3.8X (and a correspondingly smaller effective focal length - roughly 105 mm equivalent vs. the 363 mm equivalent on the SX100IS - both cameras feature an 8 megapixel sensor). I had some technical problems (mainly because for some reason the manual focus adjustment did not 'stick', so each photo was shot with autofocus). The outside temperature was roughly 20 degrees F at the time when I shot the panorama. The gigapan unit seemed to be working OK, as did the Canon camera. When I shot a second panorama, though, it appeared that the camera's auto focus mechanism had slowed down considerably, which was probably due to a combination of the cold temperature and the failing light (as the sun had set by then). |
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My first gigapan panorama... Milford Harbor (at Milford Boat Works). The deep blue sky is deceptive, because the first bands of torrential rain from tropical storm Hanna are less than ten hours away. People are removing sailcovers and sails, taking away inflatable dinghies, and lashing movable objects to decks or stanchions in anticipation of 50-knot wind gusts predicted within 24 hours. A few folks are fishing from the nearby town dock.
A number of technical problems are evident in the photo. Very frustrating working with the Canon SD870 IS in manual mode - settings just wouldn't stay put. It's a terrific camera for typical point-and-shoot work, but it just isn't at its best in this application. Next time I'll use my Canon A720 IS (which has a much more capable manual mode - either with built-in firmware or with the open-source CHDK firmware). A few of the masts appear to be 'split' - perhaps caused by wave or wind motion in between shots. |
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360 view from in front of the Marriott conference center/hotel in Northwest DC. |
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