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First shot i've taken that I feel was worth the extra time to photoshop and make perfect, including everything from the Mercedes Benz shoot to the cars stopped in traffic on the West Side Highway. Also what I think is the first shot taken at this resolution of the new Highline Park that's just opened. Definitely the most time i've ever spent working on a single picture...pretty good view from here. Printing as big as I can as well. enjoy! |
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Special State Fair foods are a big part of the experience for most Minnesotans. Roast corn on a stick is very popular, as you'll see here, but there is a huge variety of foods. How many kinds can you find? This pano was taken from the grandstand with Canon G10 and Raynox tele auxiliary lens. Its 35mm equivalent is 219mm. |
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Oregon State versus UCLA
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Smith Rock during sunset from the south western portion of the park between the bivouac and day use parking lots. |
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A Pollinator Garden at the Dauphin County Agriculture and Natural Resources Center. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture along with Penn State University are conducting a citizen scientist project monitoring native bees. Two of the main goals of the project are to determine which plants native bees are most attracted to and to continue to add to the known species of bees found in Pennsylania. |
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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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Image by Mike Andree. This is an image of several cranberry bog's in south Jersey. My hopes were to capture images of honey bees foraging on cranberry pollen. See if you can spot any? |
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Stitched from about 90 photos shot at 300 mm (equiv) with a Nikon D90 using an AutoMate motorized tripod head. |
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Goofing off yesterday afternoon I decided to test the lighting of doing a panorama indoors. So, I used my office as the test subject. The result is interesting - and not too bad for the first try. This was 350 pictures. I need to try the version with 1,100 pictures next. |
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Views of the Brooklyn Bridge, downtown NYC, Statue of Liberty and Pier 17.
Brooklyn Heights Promenade is a favorite spot among locals and tourists. More panorama and pictures on http://www.newyork-city.fr and http://www.gigapixel.fr Shot using: Canon 40d , 300mm f/8 Hand-held photography 203 Images stitched in Autopano Pro 121793x12320 pixels |