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What a difference the camera makes. This is basically the same view as the first photo, but with a slightly different perspective in order to avoid having the camera look directly into the sun. Hardware was the gigapn head, modified slightly so that the E510 fits. The L-Bracket I'm using is too heavy (it's a thick piece of aluminum) and I'll have to make a proper bracket so that I can use the tele kit lens. I had this on at first, but the mass was too great for the gigapan head. :-( The shutter finger was mounted with a piece of velcro on the front of the camera, but that is too insubstantial and I had to hold the finger in place. Will have to work on a proper system. Camera is the Olympus E510 with the "standard" kit lens set at 42mm, aperature of f9.5, with shutter speed of 1/180th s. Manual exposure, manual WB, manual focus just like you're supposed to do. That makes ALL the difference in the results, especially compared to the last one I did. What didn't work well is the sky. The contrail didn't drift *that* much, but the Gigapan stitcher still has problems here. |
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from eucalyptus trees at west to Hope Ranch to the east. Coastal mountain tallest peak north of here at 3300feet, I think. Actually, farther west at the peaks with antennas, they are 4000ft and 4300ft. Pretty good elevation change so close to the Pacific Ocean.
uploaded PScs4 merge finally after googling for solution to problem... saved as filename_XPIXELSxYPIXELS.raw (091123CoronadoView_49891x2625.raw) to enable upload, as the various TIF formats from photoshop would not upload |
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This is a redo of an existing gigapan. I did some corrections in Lightroom to get rid of a funky color cast in the original, as well as correct for a fairly strong overexposure. This has been restitched with the new stitcher, which really is quite a bit faster...
This is taken near the Geological Station at Glacier Point, over a 12 minute period mid-afternoon. 250 images Olympus E510, 40-150 kit lens at 150mm (300mm 35mm equivalent), ISO 100, 1/500th sec at f11. |
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This is a 3D test shot that is composed of right and left images that have been merged to form one anaglyph image. Get your red/cyan glasses out to view this. The colors of the images have been muted to enhance the stereo effect. |
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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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12" x 24" doilie crocheted by my Mom's Mom's Mom. Taken with Olympus E510, 40-150 kit lens at 150mm (300 mm equivalent) on modified GigaPan Beta. Lens-Subject closest distance ~0.9 m (3 ft.) 11C x 6R |
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This is a redo of an existing gigapan. This time, I've reworked the originals as if they were taken on B&W panchromatic film with a dark red filter, adjusting the exposure so that the clouds and the white water of the waterfalls are pure white. This loses a lot of shadow detail due to the limitations of dynamic range on digital cameras, but gives a very dramatic look to the valley...
This is essentially a black and white that has been exposed and developed for the highlights of the image... This is taken near the Geological Station at Glacier Point, over a 12 minute period mid-afternoon. 250 images Olympus E510, 40-150 kit lens at 150mm (300mm 35mm equivalent), ISO 100, 1/500th sec at f11. |
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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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Another re-do after processing. This was taken from exactly the same position as Yosemite II, but to capture the two waterfalls. Epic 100, E510, 70-300 Olympus lens, 300mm (600mm 35mm equivalent), 1/125th at f11, ISO 100 |
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A redo of a previous gigapan, colors corrected from original. Epic 100, E510, Olympus 70-300 zoom, 300mm (600mm 35m equivalent), 1/125th at f11, ISO 100 A monochrome version of this will go up shortly... |