Month: June 2018

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Milky Way, Sugar Hill Reservoir, Vermont

A learning curve, for sure. This mosaic / panorama is 120 images, 4 shots each from 30 camera positions. Each image has been stacked on top of each other and aligned to mean out some of the noise of shooting ISO 1600 for 30 seconds each shot. It took well over an hour to shoot the 30 camera positions – 4 shots, move, shoot 4 shots, etc., including shots I dod not use at the edges for overlap. As I was operating and moving the camera those wispy clouds were moving though the scene, which added quite a wrinkle to processing.

After stacking the images I stitched 30 of the composites into this image with AutoPano Giga, then processed in Lightroom to edit for color, brightness, and noise.

I made this with my little Canon M6 with the EFM 22 f/2 lens @ f2.8 for 30 seconds each frame, ISO 1600. The camera mounted to a Pano / Nodal head atop a Vixen Polarie star tracker which points at the north star and rotates at the same speed as the stars. The full size, original image is 10,343 pixels wide x 12,929 pixels tall.

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Storm King

We visited Storm King on our way home from NYC as a car break / art break. I need to get back and wander more…

Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy
Richard Serra
Richard Serra
Richard Serra
Richard Serra
The rolling landscape…
Up the hill…
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NYC

Spent last week with the fam in NYC, and it was a treat sharing one of my favorite places with the girls. I lived in Manhattan for a bit during a studio exchange program and for a year of grad school whilst at Columbia. Good memories and bad, hard and good times during that time of my life, sweet and delightful to wander with the girls.

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Sunrise, Redux

This is (finally) 3 exposures, stitched and stacked…. lots of work, and minuscule glitches that I hand corrected. 39 camera positions, bracketed in 3 shots for 117 images. WordPress seems to be choking on my full size 20k pixel wide panoramas – so this is a reduced file size in order to not have to get on my hosting support chat again this week.

Learning, failing, inspired, imaging.

Summit of Camel’s Hump, Vermont. Moon over summit, Mount Washington ~78 miles distant near the center of the frame, fog in the river valleys, sun peeking over the horizon, Mount Mansfield, the tallest peak in VT to the left.

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Beavertail Point

A bit of work travel – Boston area and then Providence, RI – I stopped at Beavertail Point in Jamestown, RI at dusk and enjoyed the mosquitos and evening light. I took a series of shots that I stitched into a quick panorama in Lr. There was moving water and changing light, and I have a second series of shots that I may try to develop into a larger version, with more detail spent on blending the water as it changes from shot to shot.

There were several men fishing off the rocks as the tide came in, and the light was operating behind me.

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Summit, Sunrise

The moon over the summit, Mt. Washington and the White Mountains visible ~78 miles away, the sun rising, and Mt. Mansfield, the highest peak in VT on the left.

A long process to get this to manually stitch – I ended up reverting to Hugin, then doing some cleanup in Ps and final adjustment in Lr.

The computer ran for a couple of hours straight, fans blaring, blending this together.

Lots learned… and I will sit with this version for a time and let the process sink in.

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Sunrise

I set the alarm for 1:30am, hit snooze, and almost decided to stay in bed. I did get out of bed, put the coffee on and was driving by 2:05am. Hiking by 3:05am up the Burrows trail. I regretted not getting up on time – as I missed my favorite light of the day – when the sun isn’t above the horizon yet, and the sky is a series of bands from orange to blue to indigo.

This is a further experiment for practicing my technique for a larger project – multiple camera positions shot from a pano / nodal head. The images are then lightly processed, exported for PTGui stitching, then blended in Lr / Ps