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John Opie (JohnF)
Oberursel,
Germany
Gigapans: 66
Snapshots: 450
Bookmarks: 0
Last Visited: November 15, 2009
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ex-pat American living la dolce vita in Germany, Senior Economist, married with children...
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Another small panorama, non-gigapan, of Yosemite National Park, towards the east exit. Kit was Olympus E30 70-300 lens @ 300mm, 600mm in 35mm equivalent. Exposure and everything else automatic. Was taken during the other Yosemite gigapans I took and which are up here...
Ah, to be there again. :-)
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Another small panorama, non-gigapan, of Yosemite National Park, towards the east exit. Kit was Olympus E30 70-300 lens @ 300mm, 600mm in 35mm equivalent. Exposure and everything else automatic. Was taken during the other Yosemite gigapans I took and which are up here...
Ah, to be there again. :-)
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A small panorama, non-gigapan, of Crater Lake. Kit was Olympus E30 70-300 lens @ 70mm, 140mm in 35mm equivalent. Exposure and everything else automatic. Was taken during the other Crater Lake gigapans I took and which are up here...
Some stitching issues at the edge between first and second image due to similar shape of the horizon and inadequate overlapping. Other than that, stiching is spot-on.
Ah, to be there again. :-)
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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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Flatiron I Revisited...
Author: John Opie (JohnF)
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Size: 0.23 gigapixels
Added: August 23, 2009
Total Views: 447
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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 one is from Buena Vista Park, which is actually one of the hgher points of the city. I had hoped for more expansive views, but there's a lot of old growth forest in the park and hence views are somewhat limited.
The church is at the corner of Fulton St and Park Ave, St. Ignatious. It's a Jesuit Parish and this is actually the fifth such church in San Francisco. The first was built in 1855 when the Jesuits arrived in San Francisco, and this one dates from 2 Aug 1914, construction having started in 1910. The previous structure used was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.
What else can be seen? The Golden Gate bridge way in the background and quite a few houses.
This is one of the few that I did using a longer lens. That's how it is a generous 84 images with significant overlap. I can't see a single stitcher error.
Kit: Epic 100, Olympus E510, 70-300 lens, 300mm (35mm: 600mm). 1/250th at f8, ISO 100
Color balance is a tad funky, as are a number of recent gigapans. Will have to research that and see what the story is. Was set to 5500°K...
I *think* this is the last of my summer vacation gigapans. I will probably revist the one or the other to fiddle with the color balance...
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I'm surprised I hadn't uploaded this one earlier, guess I was still working out all the photos that belogn to this one.
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.
Still not certain on the color cast, but after taking a look at the originals, this really does seem accurate...will investigate further...
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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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