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I re photographed this shot with an Epic 100 engineering prototype using the electronic trigger. I used a Canon Xsi with a battery holder and a Sigma APO 300mm lens. The panorama consists of 160 photographs out of a planned 200 photos. The exposure was ISO 100, 15 seconds, f11, Tungsten white balance adjusted to2900 Kelvin from RAW format. I used a fresh set of alkalines since my Ni-MH rechargeables were at a low voltage. I plan on using the expensive energizer lithium batteries due to the relatively colder weather of 35 degrees F. Alkaline mAh ratings are reduced under heavier loads or cold weather. |
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November 4, 2008 Grant Park, Chicago Election Night Obama Wins. Standing in the middle of the crowd early in the evening between Jumbotrons looking at the crowd and all the faces. |
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Taken from the View Lounge on top of the Marriott in San Fransico, looking west away from downtown. Visibility was not superb, so I may return and take the photo again on a more clear evening. Some opportunites for more excitement might also present themsevles when the convention center is hosting a large converence, or closer to the busy holiday season. |
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Mikel Maron, Jay Longson, and I went on a night gigapanning safari, getting Mikel ready to gigapan his way through London, ?, and India. This is from the south west corner of Dolores Park. I drove past this spot a view months ago and thought 'self, this is a good place for a nigttime gigapan' I set the camera self timer to two seconds, and the exposure was about 5 seconds. I put the gigapan into manual mode and hand triggered each shot. |
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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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This is #5, the last in my Manhattan Beach Pier Christmas Gigapan series. The view is South to Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes Peninsula and Catalina Island. The new moon shined above the ocean while the Christmas lights on the pier glowed. By time the scene was complete it was dark, making for a few long exposures 70 shots, Nikon P5100, ©John Post |
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Almost 3 hours of cold wind blowing in the winter night and frustrations after seeing the result of 4 days straight for rendering this pano, the incident occured when I had to change the batteries in the half way shooting and had to turn up the modified mount in order to do that which is very very bad move becuase then when the gigapan try to resume the unfinished task it will blindly restart from that position and not the position before I changed the batteries, so later I had to do another pano to cover the missing block if I still want to include the hotel with the tower. Maybe next time I should pay more attention to the weather instead of create more disaster.....ha.
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This panorama was my first one done with high dynamic range (hdr). It is made from 13 stacks of 3 images each for a total of about 18EV worth of exposure. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing very hard that night and even with the tripod "locked" in place by piling boulders around the legs, there was still enough camera movement over the long exposures (up to 30s) to blur the images when zoomed in close.
If you feel like trying something like this yourself, you can read the whole, painful story at: http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/25/more-punishment/ and (older) http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/17/night-panorama-hdr/ |
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Beautifully lit at night, the shuttle is dazzling in the darkness of Kennedy Space Center. Some unfortunate movement of the GigaPan robot during the 0.5 second exposure ruined the otherwise glorious shot. |