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This Gigapan was taken at an elevation of 200ft above sea level, from the Twin Lights Lighthouse in Highlands, New Jersey. The nearby Mt. Mitchell Scenic Overlook is at an elevation of 266 ft and is the highest place on the eastern seaboard, between southern Maine and the Yucatan in Mexico!
Sandy Hook is the seven mile sand peninsula in the foreground that jutes out into Raritan Bay south of New York. A unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area and part of the National Parks of New York Harbor, it also includes Fort Hancock, a disused miltary base. Check out the snapshots and you can see the Statue of Liberty over 20 miles away, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn, the Empire State Building in Manhattan and the Parachute Ride and the Wonder Wheel on Cooney Island! This Gigapan was taken using a Nikon D300 with a Tokina 80-400mm at 400mm (600mm 35mm equivalent). For more Gigapans of Sandy Hook see http://gigapan.org/gigapans/most_popular/?q=brianlr+sandy+hook |
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Mid-Manhattan At Night Do you want to own a print of this panorama www.erwinlist.com |
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This is an old elevated rail line that runs through lower Manhattan. It has been converted into a park, an open walkway with interesting views of the city. This view is of some artwork at the north end of the walk. See http://gigapan.org/gigapans/41402/ for another view from 17th street. The focus was set on the artwork, so the background is not as sharp as it could be. |
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It is the first St.Petersburg-Warsaw railway tunnel was built by Czarist Russian Empire in 1861.
http://galerija.speleo.lt/v/kiti/urbanistiniai_pozemiai/paneriu_tunelis_001/archyvines_foto/ http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27032078 Bat hibernation conditions as well as diversity and abundance of hibernating bats were investigated in the Paneriai tunnel (Vilnius, Lithuania) in 2000-2003. Five bat species were found to hibernate in the tunnel: Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii), pond bat (Myotis dasycneme), brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus), barbastelle bat (Barbastella barbastellus), and serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus). http://www.ekoi.lt/uploads/docs/BaranauskasAZL%2013_379-384.pdf |
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Again, from the Empire State Building, looking northeast, with the Hudson River in the background. This is an expansion of an older one, with color balance adjusted from 7500° to 5500 and a number of additional images added that were mistakenly ignored! Kit: Epic 100, Olympus E510, 40-150 kit lens, 150mm (35mm: 300mm), 1/250th at f8... part of a continuing series... |
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View from Empire State Building, looking northeast to capture the Chrysler Building... 36 images with quite a bit of overlap: hence "just" 115 MP. Still, great view of the Chrysler Building, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. Taken with the Epic 100 on a monopod with base legs, Olympus E510, 40-150 lens, 150mm (35mm: 300mm), ISO 100, 1/250 at f8, 2 sec between shots. This is a redo of http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30511 I corrected the color cast which resulted from setting the camera WB to 7500° instead of a more appropriate 5500°. Corrected in Lightroom. |
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This is a yet another redo of a previous gigapan, as I corrected the white balance. The camera was (mis-)set to 7500°, I corrected it in Lightroom A few notes on how this was done, and why there are some funky edges on 7x7 image. Kit: Epic 100, Olympus E510, 40-150 lens, 150mm (35mm: 300mm) No tripods are allowed on the Observatory Deck of the Empire State Building, both as a safety requirement and to cut down on photographers heading up there with their view cameras or gigapans on a nice day and hogging all the good corners. :-) This means that you can't use a gigapan, since it is not something that you can hand-hold. Being the ornery person I am, I searched for an alternative. I got around this by using a monopod with base feet, a Manfrotto unit that I had picked up years and years ago and only recently discovered actually had the feet, which are nothing more than steel rods, threaded to fit into screwed sockets at the base to provide a modicum of support. I wrote the corporation that runs the Empire State Building if this was acceptable, but received no answer, so when I was recently in New York, I simply went there. I passed through security with no problem, with the head of security commenting that a monopod was allowable. I then set up the Epic 100 at the top of the Empire State Building on the monopod. While the unit is impressively stable compared to not having base feet at all, it does sway quite a bit if left to its own devices. Hence I made sure to brace the monopod as well as I could, trying to keep the balance centered on the unit, but found that I need a lot more practice to get this down right. Hence I stopped the first one I did (and erased it from the card) and upped the FOV so that I would get a fair amount of overlap to compensate for the swaying of the gigapan, which does generate a fair amount of torque when tranversing rows or columns. So, that's the secret of how to do a gigapan where no tripods are allowed: use something that isn't a tripod, but pretends to be. |
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This is fundamentally a redoing of one of the previous Gigapans I uploaded, which will be deleted... Here I did an error: WB had been set to 7500°, which led to a distinct tobacco-colored tint. This has been corrected in this gigapan, via Lightroom. Makes a huge difference, as a lot of detail was lost due to the dark tint that the first upload showed. Taken from the south side of the Oservatory Deck on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, look downtown. Kit: Epic 100, Olympus E510, 40-150 kit lens, 150mm (35mm: 300mm), exp. 1/1000 at f5.6 |
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This is a redo of a previous gigapan, as I found more images that belonged. A few notes on how this was done, and why there are some funky edges on 7x7 image. Kit: Epic 100, Olympus E510, 40-150 lens, 150mm (35mm: 300mm) No tripods are allowed on the Observatory Deck of the Empire State Building, both as a safety requirement and to cut down on photographers heading up there with their view cameras or gigapans on a nice day and hogging all the good corners. :-) This means that you can't use a gigapan, since it is not something that you can hand-hold. Being the ornery person I am, I searched for an alternative. I got around this by using a monopod with base feet, a Manfrotto unit that I had picked up years and years ago and only recently discovered actually had the feet, which are nothing more than steel rods, threaded to fit into screwed sockets at the base to provide a modicum of support. I wrote the corporation that runs the Empire State Building if this was acceptable, but received no answer, so when I was recently in New York, I simply went there. I passed through security with no problem, with the head of security commenting that a monopod was allowable. I then set up the Epic 100 at the top of the Empire State Building on the monopod. While the unit is impressively stable compared to not having base feet at all, it does sway quite a bit if left to its own devices. Hence I made sure to brace the monopod as well as I could, trying to keep the balance centered on the unit, but found that I need a lot more practice to get this down right. Hence I stopped the first one I did (and erased it from the card) and upped the FOV so that I would get a fair amount of overlap to compensate for the swaying of the gigapan, which does generate a fair amount of torque when tranversing rows or columns. So, that's the secret of how to do a gigapan where no tripods are allowed: use something that isn't a tripod, but pretends to be. I am still curious about the lighting on this and the others: the overall balance of the colors looks almost like a tobacco color, which was definitely not the coloration I remember from that day. Will have to see if I can take a closer look at what is driving that coloration... |
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This is a view of the Flatiron Building from New York City's tallest building (for now), the Empire State Building.
The blurring on the lower left and right are from the trellis that prevents folks from jumping off the top of the building. This is a view downtown, a partial view. Kit: Epic 100, E510 with the 40-150 lens, at 150mm (35mm: 300mm), 1/250@f8. If you ask me nicely I'll even tell you how I made this and the other Empire State Building gigapans without a tripod, since these are strictly forbidden at the top of the Empire State Building. Suffice to say that the camera was attached to something, but not a tripod...in the classic sense... Unfortunately, I think that this gigapan was made with the wrong FOV, resulting in relatively poor performance... |