maccardi Loc: Western New York

Some pics from last Saturday around Rochester NY

a panoramic stitch of 6 photos


Irondequoit Bay

Archy Loc: Lake Hamilton, Florida

Very nice............. :thumbup: :thumbup:

rocar7 Loc: Alton, England

I'm a great fan of panoramas, will get around to printing one reslly big one day.

Can I ask, do you have a pano head? Did you have your camera on manual focus and manual exposure? I ask the last question because of the way the sky fades from blue to white, though it's a very smooth transition, so I suppose you had it on manual?

maccardi Loc: Western New York

rocar7

I shot those photo's handheld, the picture probably would have been allot taller if I used a tripod since I had to crop allot of it out. I was using aperture priority mode with an aperture of 8 and the shutter speed adjusted from 1/200 to 1/30 as I got more of the light source in the frame. I think the sky color lightens because I was using a polarizing filter. When the right side of the picture was in frame, the filter was perpendicular to the sun, as it panned left, the filter was point at the sun removing the polarizing effect.

My tripod is just a cheap one that came bundled with the camera and it is nothing fancy. Iv'e been considering buying a Benpro tripod kit with ball head, Iv'e never seen one in person but they look pretty robust in the pictures and videos Iv'e seen. If anyone reading this post has any experience with Benpros please comment with you opinions.

pigpen

Nice shots!!

Big fan of your part of the country. Finger lakes, Watkin's Glenn SP, etc...

Did you hold the camera vertically for the pano?

ftpecktim Loc: MONTANA

Nice shots

maccardi Loc: Western New York

I took all the shots landscape orientation, there were actually more shots in the stitch that completed the left side shore but the software didn't add that side. I used windows live photo gallery to do the stitching.

Watkins Glenn SP is definitely on my to-do list, I have never been there but iv'e seen pics of the gorge and am looking forward to taking my own.

pigpen

If you take your pano shots vertically, you will need more images, but have more room at the top and bottom to crop.

maccardi Loc: Western New York

I Agree, but its allot harder(for me anyways) to hand hold the camera in that orientation and keep it steady and true for a pano. Eventually I will buy a nice tripod for these types of pics. Maybe I'll try using Photoshop to join all of the pics and see how it works. I haven't tried a manual pano yet.

Paul B. Loc: North Carolina

Nice,looks really good.

maccardi Loc: Western New York

I want to thank everyone for taking the time and effort to comment...Mark