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Yankees vs Red Soxs, 4th of July, Yankee Stadium | |||
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Yankee Stadium Right Field contains 2 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Lacey, Joel, The Rudman's: Our trip to Yankee Stadium for 4th of July
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Space Shuttle Discovery launches from Cape Canaveral, about 200 miles away from the Howard Park beach on Florida's west cost. | |||
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Space Shuttle Discovery Launch, Florida contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: yankee: snow birds
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July 4th Yankee's vs Red Sox at Yankee stadium | |||
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Yankee Stadium Home Plate contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Yankee Stadium: Possibly Robin w/yellow shirt & sunglasses
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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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Ever since I saw miao's GigaPan of "A city near Route 80" (http://www.gigapan.org/alpha/gigapans/15148/) I've been salivating at the chance to get back to Garrett Mountain to shoot a massive GigaPan from the same vantage point. The spot is very well suited for GigaPanning - an overlook with an unobstructed view and plenty of detail that ought to be highly explorable. What more could I ask for?
Better weather. Unfortunately the day that I finally got out there to shoot this monster turned out to be the kind of day that drives a GigaPanner to tears - partly cloudy skies - tantalizing stretches of clear blue sky punctuated by white puffy clouds whose devestating effects on the lighting of the scene belie their benign outward appearance. With over 1000 input images this GigaPan took well over an hour to capture. Naturally, the mostly sunny conditions that I set up for lasted just long enough to convince me that they would prevail, but by the time the bulk of the foreground shots were being snapped the conditions had morphed to mostly cloudy and the resulting shots ended up pretty underexposed. What can you do? It wasn't a complete waste. I had a great conversation with a couple of passing bikers who were quite interested in the GigaPan technology (and far more knowledgable about it than your average passerby), and ultimately, despite the suboptimal exposures, the GigaPan Stitcher software took it all in stride and behaved like a trooper, outputting the largest GigaPan I've yet successfully stitched. I'm sure there'll still be plenty to explore and discover, but I'm still hoping that someday I'll have an opportunity to get back there and shoot this scene under better weather conditions. |
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Paterson, New Jersey from Garrett Mountain contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: DirecTV Blimp: Probably orbiting Yankee Stadium.
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Interleague play brought the New York Yankees to PNC Park to face off against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Joe Appel/Tribune-Review |
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Pirates vs Yankees at PNC Park contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: A-Rod in the batter's box: Yankee's Alex Rodriguez at bat.
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Yankee Siege is a world-record pumpkin throwing (punkin' chunkin') trebuchet, a twelfth century device that hurled 250 pound boulders at castles and walls during a siege. Greenfield, NH is the home of Yankee Siege, a handbuilt trebuchet that is used to throw pumpkins at a 'castle' target. I pass by it on the way to/from work and it is truly a marvel of engineering. One can only imagine how devastating a device like that was in war time and how many operators must have been maimed or killed trying to take over a castle. You can see the owner's website at http://www.yankeesiege.com to learn more about it. |
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Yankee Siege contains 3 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Yankee Siege: The trebuchet, well the bottom half of it anyway. 52,000 lbs of metal and wood.
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Dan Fitzgerald -- one of the BAS Sledge Golf field assistants -- and I photographed some of our previous sample sites on a particularly sunny Burns Bluff day. | |||
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Daniel Fitzgerald and Dave Barbeau in Creswick Gap, Palmer Land, Antarctica contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Dave Barbeau: Yankee (NSF) geologist traipsing around the southern Antarctic peninsula with the assistance of the British Antarctic Survey
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A panorama of the the Lily garden at the Imperial garden in Tokyo. This is taken August 12 -- the lily's are not in bloom. | |||
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Imperial Garden East Garden contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Tokyo Yankee Fan: In the middle of Tokyo's Imperial Gardens, a lone Yankee fan wanders by.
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New Yankee Stadium contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Home plate: This is where the new home plate will be at Yankee Stadium
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