Captured on my drive home from capturing the Milky Way, the sun just below the horizon – Mt. Mansfield on the left, Camel’s Hump on the right.
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.
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.
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.
Trail Pup
The very photogenic pup, hiking at Jay Peak
Jay Peak
Hiked Jay Peak with the pup last weekend. First peak of the season, a little wet, but nothing some rock hopping and wet socks couldn’t overcome. Very very windy up top – and thankfully the side door to the Tram building was open – we warmed up, snacked and I added layers before climbing the stairs to the summit.
