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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 1
Taken during a Saturday morning spinning class on the roof of the YMCA in Downtown Pittsburgh. |
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Flickr picture at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11984823@N02/4065020409/sizes/o/ |
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A beautiful evening at the 2009 Bristol balloon fiesta saw over 90 balloons launched from Ashton Park. Great to see the piper flying again after many years. Spot the UP balloon with it's house underneath too. The tower is the camera obscura, the first panoramic viewer where you view the image projected through the periscope on a white dished horizontal table. See the reciprocal shot of the bridge and Bristol from Dundry at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27492
October 23, 2009 14:28 Edit | Delete See the world's first ever bunjee jump at Clifton Brdge Bristol here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DLooHqJMc 200 shots taken on Canon SX1 IS camera |
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Taken from one of the "mushrooms" along Grandview Ave. on Mount Washington, overlooking Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle and the Monongahela River. |
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The Crown Point Bridge was abruptly closed on October 16, 2009 after underwater inspection revealed dramatic deterioration of two support piers. Built in 1929 between Chimney Point, Vermont (right) and Crown Point, New York (left), it is one of only two bridges that cross Lake Champlain. The bridge is not expected to open again soon, if ever, and local businesses and several hundred daily commuters are scrambling to cope.
News update (November 9, 2009): The bridge is too unstable to repair and must be demolished. http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/november/new-york-vermont-replace-champlain-bridge The shores which so spectacularly narrow the lake here have a long history of human occupation and drama. Ruins of a 1731 French fort and the larger British 1759-1763 Fort Crown Point can be seen under the arched through-truss. On the Vermont side, the Chimney Point Museum occupies a two story 1780s brick tavern where Seth Warner plotted the American capture of Fort Crown Point. In 2000, the bridge made cameo appearances in What Lies Beneath (Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer) and Me, Myself, and Irene (Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger). Notes: I used a Nikon D40 with a Nikkor 300mm f/4.5 AI-s lens at f/11, 1/250 second, ISO 200, NEF. 35mm equiv is 450mm, and field of view was set to 3.1 degrees. Focus was manually adjusted many times. Two second shutter delay was initiated by wireless remote. Lightroom was used to remove vignetting and increase exposure and saturation before outputting jpegs for stitching. |
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This 1.3Gpx image is a composite of 220 10Mpx 8-second exposures with a 200mm lens at f/8 and ISO 200. All the gory details of its creation are detailed here:
http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/11/how-to-create-gigapixel-images |
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October 2008 from Dundry Hill. Attempting to get a good shot of the two bridges in line I took these 9 shots without a Gigapan and stitched them together with Gigapan software. I'm waiting for the SLR version to come out and I'll have the first one available!! See Clifton Bridge close up at http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27070 |
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This was taken from a parking structure in the Perl district in Portland, Oregon. You can see the large freemont bridge in the background. I finished the panorama just before a train rolled by. There was significant rain and wind. I photographed the scene with an Epic 100 using a Nikon D90 DSLR at 105mm using ISO 200, f/8, exposure bracket +/- 1.33 EV with 5s, 2s, 13s with white balance set to 2600K. This stitch only uses the EV0 exposure bracket because I was too close to edge and small rain drops were deposited on the lens. The EV +1.33 shows the effect of the small drops of water in portions of the sky which are manifested as circular flare. I adjusted the white balance of the camera RAW files from 2600K to 2850K. There is mixed lighting with the monochromatic low pressure sodium lighting or something similar to it which yields different white balance depending on what lighting is illuminating a certian part of the subject. There is no visible sawtooth and I did not bend the camera plate. In the future I will photograph at a position that is behind any water on the ground so that the lens does not recieve drops of water which effect the brighter exposure brackets. |