Stairs, detail, MoMA, NYC
Interior Vertical Panorama, MoMa, NYC@ MoMA
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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.
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.
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.
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
Water Fall
Waterfall, near the Forest City Trail, Camel’s Hump State Park, VT
Summit, Moon
Sunrise Hike, Moon over the Summit
Tree
Tree, trailside, on the way to Jay Peak Summit. Handheld, many shots stitched into a mosaic – I need to return with the tripod to properly photograph this amazing life-force.
Milky Way
I worked a bit more on the images I captured Monday morning. I went through the process of stacking what I had captured, then stitching and attempting to hand color / balance the frames that were captured well into astronomical twilight – the time when the sun is starting to light the dome of the sky and everything changes so quickly…
I learn so much by doing – so I need to keep doing, making, creating. And failing.
Imagine, Create, Fail, Learn, Repeat
Humbling, to capture the night sky. This whole process is a work in progress for me. So much going on, I need to backtrack and break it down one piece at a time. Stars move. It is dark, but there are shadows. Focus is hard to get right on pinpoint bits or light millions and millions of miles away. ISO, Aperture, tracking, alignment – so many moving pieces.
So much wrong, but so good to get out and give this a try. Couldn’t sleep last night, so I grabbed the camera and gear and went off to one of 2 sites I had in mind. Didn’t like #1 and went to this alternate. Not ideal, the core was behind the ridge, but relatively dark.
Tracking, panorama, changing light, moving stars, hard to process, and I saw a bear.
The color all over – light pollution, and then by the time I shot the last panel the sky was changing over to blue. Processed by the seat of my pants just to get it done and out of my system, so I can learn and move on to the next one.
The foreground is a blur as I was tracking and did not have time to shoot a static foreground – sky changed, I needed to get home to prep kids for school, and I was frozen.
Canon M6 with EF-M 22 on Vixen Polarie tracker, lined up via compass and through the eye hole.
90s exposures, 4 in each position hoping to stack them – but I haven’t done that yet.
I should have stepped down to 2.8 from 2.5 to control distortion at the edges of the lens. Next time.
And, next time I’ll use the RRS pano / nodal setup to make overlap and alignment easier. Eyeball overlap in the dark is really hard to get right – lots of wasted pixels this morning.
Imagine, create, fail, learn, repeat.
Its not a great astro image, but its mine, and it is another stepping stone.