Eastern Sierras from Manzanar
Mar 16, 2018 18:49:18 #
Just shot this sequence this afternoon. Site is at Manzanar's Reservoir. From the photograph, you can see the weather system moving into the valley, freezing rain starts around 5 PM, which totally screwed up my plans for star trails.
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Mar 17, 2018 15:40:39 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Just shot this sequence this afternoon. Site is at Manzanar's Reservoir. From the photograph, you can see the weather system moving into the valley, freezing rain starts around 5 PM, which totally screwed up my plans for star trails.
I’m always interested in the focal length of the lens.
Mar 17, 2018 16:52:26 #
John_F wrote:
What is your panorama technique. My camera offers a pano option.
I do it Old Skool. Lens was Nikon 28-300 set at 28mm, positioned on tripod vertically (always do Panoramas you are going to stitch together later vertically). Focus first shot, take image. Sight on right margin for a terrain feature that you can position on the left 25% of your viewfinder; for a Nikon, the area to the left of the AF bracket display is my target. Focus, shoot, sight, rotate, repeat until you have the scene covered. I've done up to a 50% overlap, but 25% works for me.
I import into Lightroom, and select Edit/Photomerge/As Panorama, and let it run. When the preview is finished, I move the Boundary Warp slider to the right. I know some will disagree with me, but for my workflow, I do not know why the Boundary Warp slider is even there, but i digress. I click on Merge, and go do something for the time it takes to cook into a complete image.
I have a Sony RX100M4, which has the built in Pano feature. The key is not to rotate your body while holding the camera still taking the panorama, but to rotate your hands so the center of the camera stays in a fixed place.
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Mar 17, 2018 17:11:56 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
That is the key to making any panorama, in order to avoid parallax problems with elements near the camera. Technically, there is a point within the lens that needs to be stationary, but I find it satisfactory to just keep the front of the lens in the same position.I have a Sony RX100M4, which has the built in Pano feature. The key is not to rotate your body while holding the camera still taking the panorama, but to rotate your hands so the center of the camera stays in a fixed place.
Mar 27, 2018 06:30:32 #
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