 Thursday, December 20, 2007 It's really quite amazing what can be done with the software collection described elsewhere in this site. Monday, January 24th 2005. Some views of Prospect Park, pre and post the blizzard. |
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| Monday, Jan 17 2005 New this week. More Brooklyn Bridge , and a couple of panoramas of Lincoln Center in New York City, taken at night. | |
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The above picture of the Brooklyn Bridge was stitched together from two hand held shots which were taken from almost under the bridge. This picture and the one lower down, were shot in August 2004, with not a tripod in sight. The only additional treatment I gave to this image was to manually rotate it to bring the bridge towers a bit more to the vertical than the final stitched imaged was. Which do you prefer? (This is of course a much reduced copy. The original is a 6+ Mega pixel file.) |
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| This is Prospect Park in Brooklyn, taken on the first day we had snow in 2004 (Dec 27 3:45 PM). A hand held panorama, composed from three images taken in portrait mode. This image was stitched together before I discovered PTLens. Some of the curvature is probably due to the hand held nature of the shooting. | |
| While not strictly speaking a panorama view, this image nicely shows the power of the technique. By stitching three images together I achieved a much wider angle of view than would be possible with just a 35mm lens. The picture on the right shows the approximate size of the middle frame of the composition. Each picture was taken with a 35mm lens in portrait orientation. So vertical field of view of the full image is about 74°, and the horizontal field of view is about 120°. |
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Brooklyn bridge, from the Manhattan side of the East River. Composed from three hand-held shots, this is another effort without PTLens. |
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Tripod Mounted |
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New York City, Jan 8th 2005, just after 7 pm. This is a shot built from four images. Taken on a tripod using the panorama-head described here. |
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Panorama in the vertical dimension. This is the De Beers building at 580 5th Ave. Taken from just across the road, and down the block a few yards, this image is made from three pictures taken in landscape mode using a tripod, but no special panorama head. I just panned up and down with a regular tripod head. After joining the images together, it looked like the picture on the left. It was little trouble to correct (somewhat) the perspective and crop it. As a final touch I adjusted the levels just a little.
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Tripod mounted |
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| These are a couple of panoramas of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. Taken on the same January evening at the two scenes above. | |
