San Fran Pan...o

Ann McRae · December 19, 2008

Well, I am not Baldy et al, but I did shoot this one standing next to Andy and Nick, if that counts for anything. This sucker is about 15 shots. I suspect it is with the 24 - 105mm & the 1dMkIIN. I am pleasantly surprised with this result:

That was Friday before the dgrin party, Twin Peaks, howling wind! Great company though! Wish there were a way to display it better here.

This next is the night before, from the first lookout over the GG Bridge:

I believe that is 5 or 6 shots, 1dMkIIN, 24 -105 and each a 30 second exposure.

(watermarks being removed post haste)
ann

roentarre · December 19, 2008

Stunning pano work here

:ivar

aktse · December 19, 2008

clap

clap

Love the pano of the golden gate!

And you kept saying that you didn't have any photos from this trip! Ha! Lair!

you have lots of winners!

Ann McRae · December 19, 2008

roentarre wrote:

Stunning pano work here :ivar

Thank you!

ann

Ann McRae · December 19, 2008

aktse wrote:

clapclap

Love the pano of the golden gate!

And you kept saying that you didn't have any photos from this trip! Ha! Lair!

you have lots of winners!

Thanks April!

I will not judge shots by the lcd of the camera or P2000 again!

schmoo · December 19, 2008

Ann,

WOW! That is a big pano and a great representation of what it really looked like that evening! (Minus the wind of course)

I wonder how the gerbils in your computer liked stitching that together.

Still it's a great result and I'm glad you got such a nice memento from the trip.

I love night shots from cities and the GG shot is excellent as well. A slight lean to the left, maybe? But IIRC the hills are quite rolly on hat side of the Bay.

Thanks for posting these!

GOLDENORFE · December 19, 2008

love the bridge shot, great exposure.
not keen on 1st pano,
too wide with no real intresting focus point,sorry:D

phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Mike J · December 19, 2008

Ann McRae wrote:

Thanks April!

I will not judge shots by the lcd of the camera or P2000 again!

Hi Ann,

Beautiful shots

I'm interested in your comment about judging shots by the LCD on the camera. I've been reading some of the articles about how the JPEG preview/histogram on the camera may not be representative of the raw data. Just curious as to what your experience was. Did the LCD/historgram indicate that these were overexposed?

Tee Why · December 19, 2008

Pretty nice pano.
I'd like to see a bigger version too.

spechtal · December 19, 2008

Excellent shots Ann. I need a bigger, wider screen

NorthernFocus · December 19, 2008

Both very nice

Ann McRae · December 19, 2008

Hi Stephanie

Well, the memories of the weekend are more than enough memento! But I am pleased that I alo got some photos! My computer did okay stitching that big one, grumbled a bit but it wasn't an all nighter either!

And about the leaning - well I think I am just always off kilter!

It might just be time to learn the pano mumbo jumbo that Nick has tried to teach me (more than once) - you know, nodal point and other words that glaze my eyes over!

It was good to see you and Travis. Happy holidays.

ann

schmoo wrote:

Ann,

WOW! That is a big pano and a great representation of what it really looked like that evening! (Minus the wind of course)

I wonder how the gerbils in your computer liked stitching that together. Still it's a great result and I'm glad you got such a nice memento from the trip.

I love night shots from cities and the GG shot is excellent as well. A slight lean to the left, maybe? But IIRC the hills are quite rolly on hat side of the Bay.

Thanks for posting these!

Ann McRae · December 19, 2008

GOLDENORFE wrote:

love the bridge shot, great exposure.
not keen on 1st pano,
too wide with no real intresting focus point,sorry:D

phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Hi Phil

Thanks. I understand your point, for sure. In full size, it is quite amazing how much detail is there. It is possible to make out the SF city hall on the far left! Amazing, really, but this size doesn't do anything for it. And it is more of a representational thing than an art piece, I suppose.

ann

Ann McRae · December 19, 2008

Mike J wrote:

Hi Ann,

Beautiful shots I'm interested in your comment about judging shots by the LCD on the camera. I've been reading some of the articles about how the JPEG preview/histogram on the camera may not be representative of the raw data. Just curious as to what your experience was. Did the LCD/historgram indicate that these were overexposed?

Hi Mike - exposure wasn't what I was judging (or trying to judge), focus was. Most things looked OOF on the LCD of the camera, and I had too many shots to pick anything good from the P2000 - it is really slow at rendering RAW and the 1d is set to only shoot RAW. I actually think the issue was with my corrective lenses more than anything. I wear single vision contacts to shoot, but progressives to work on the computer.

I can generally trust the histogram, much more than the lcd without using the histogram.

ann

Ann McRae · December 19, 2008

Tee Why wrote:

Pretty nice pano.
I'd like to see a bigger version too.

Thanks. Don't know how to display that on the web, sadly!

ann

Ann McRae · December 20, 2008

spechtal wrote:

Excellent shots Ann. I need a bigger, wider screen

Ooooh, slippery slope Angela - first its a wider screen, then a second monitor, then, well

Thanks very much!

ann

Ann McRae · December 20, 2008

articblooms wrote:

Both very nice

Thank you Dan.

ann

Nikolai · December 20, 2008

Great images, Ann!

Ann McRae · December 20, 2008

Nikolai wrote:

Great images, Ann!

Thanks, Nik!

ann

Ann McRae · December 29, 2008

So my sister in law would like the GG as a large print. I know I need to straighten it a bit, and I will likely clone out the lights from the plane. Any other tidying that I should do before printing?

ann

Jane B. · December 29, 2008

Ann McRae wrote:

Well, I am not Baldy et al, but I did shoot this one standing next to Andy and Nick, if that counts for anything. This sucker is about 15 shots. I suspect it is with the 24 - 105mm & the 1dMkIIN. I am pleasantly surprised with this result:

That was Friday before the dgrin party, Twin Peaks, howling wind! Great company though! Wish there were a way to display it better here.

This next is the night before, from the first lookout over the GG Bridge:

I believe that is 5 or 6 shots, 1dMkIIN, 24 -105 and each a 30 second exposure.

(watermarks being removed post haste)
ann

Where did the one of the GG Bridge go? I remember seeing it and others talk about it in this thread.

Jane B.

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