pano stitch from 3 or 4 16mm f/3.5 AI exposures. To make these stitch in Photoshop, I found that applying the 16mm f/2.8 fisheye profile in camera raw works best, although I have to dial back the distortion and vignette levels to keep the image from becoming totally skewed. I think the key is that the stitcher is told that it is dealing with a 16mm full frame fisheye and suddenly it knows how to line this up.
Close to Mammoth Lakes in California, the view from the Pacific Crest Trail down the North Fork of the San Joaquin and to the right the Ritter Range.
cadman342001 wrote:
A mate of mine used to use it when I lived in England (I emigrated to Australia in 2007 aged 40) but I'm from the North of England. Whereabouts did you live when you were there ?
Andy: - very colourful, as slang should be!
I lived in a town called Malvern - 9 miles from Worcester (Midlands) in the late 60s
I took an almost identical image from the exact same spot back in 2014 using a 5DMKIII and a 24-105mm zoom on a tripod. Got the same lighting results, had the same issues. Ended up cropping to portrait leaving the bridge just left of center and leaving only the very darkest trees/brush at the bottom right and called it good. That location is a rather sketchy place to set up and shoot from in the dark.
Mary
Nothing like getting a consensus on an issue!
Yes, its a an "interesting" place, especially in the dark. You can walk down a bank a little ways from the road (20 yds) and there is a fence to people from getting too close to the edge and falling on to traffic coming out of the tunnel there. However, there is a hole in the fence so you can get a clear shot on a small flat on the other side. When we went there, there was a guy and a girl in lounge chairs there just enjoying the view and chilling!! Not sure where they were parked as the police come by often to keep people from stopping there. Its all about people control these days.
Dogs breakfast or dogs dinner are equally valid, though seems to have passed from common usage
As has pig ear ..... though you must remember that a pig has a left ear too ....
I'm sorry to say I have been a little distracted recently, not just using AF lenses very occasionally - as in not often
The following pix should explain my distraction
Some people have a mis-spent youth, some have a mid-life crisis (often involving motorbikes)
My late life identity crisis comes as I approach being 70 next year. Regression therapy perhaps should be taken.
As with the words of a Paul Simon song about allergies where he states that his 'hands can't touch a guitar string, his fingers just burn and ache' ..... well I can vouch for that !!
2 weeks in and as everyone says PAIN is a right of passage .... who knew !!
Steve
Nikon 4 Nikon
Stokesey 2020
Depth of field exercise is easy with a guitar and an 85mm f1.4
Stokesey 2020
12 strings take longer to tune .....
Stokesey 2020
A well strung neck at f8
Stokesey 2020
My usual point of view of the neck as I try to learn the chords
No kidding. The other photographer I was with was packing I believe, and the police stopped, but we kinda thought they were more concerned about what might be exchanging hands rather than parking. Ahem... We waited until they, and the guy they were questioning left, to come out of the shadows we had stepped back into out of sight. There was a lot of debris on the ground beyond that cut in the fence and it was very dark. The dim lights from the rather old looking structures behind us down and to the right, where we parked, and the lights from across the water become apparent in the foreground due to the slow shutter speeds necessary for exposure and light trails. It really is the best angle on the bridge though, if ya don't get mugged or break yer fool neck.
graytrekker wrote:
Nothing like getting a consensus on an issue!
Yes, its a an "interesting" place, especially in the dark. You can walk down a bank a little ways from the road (20 yds) and there is a fence to people from getting too close to the edge and falling on to traffic coming out of the tunnel there. However, there is a hole in the fence so you can get a clear shot on a small flat on the other side. When we went there, there was a guy and a girl in lounge chairs there just enjoying the view and chilling!! Not sure where they were parked as the police come by often to keep people from stopping there. Its all about people control these days....Show more →
another panorama stitch with the 16mm f/3.5 fisheye. 5 frames here, heavily overlapped.
This is in the Ansel Adams Wilderness, only minutes off the Pacific Crest Trail. Far on the left the big peaks of the Ritter Range, Mount Ritter and Mount Banner, are peaking above the tree tops. The lake is at about 9800 feet, while both peaks are about 13,000 feet and only about 3 miles to the west.
later that same day, about 10 miles to the south after a shower and full resupply at Reds Meadow resort, I am camping with my hiking buddy Mousie under the light of some Chinese-sourced USB powered LED lights I added to the top of my tent. Full luxury this year. On this trip, I also changed my water filtration system to gravity fed, which frees up time to goof around with the camera
This is a tiny 1-person tent I can barely sit in myself, so don't be fooled by the 16mm's perspective
Nice one, Rafael. Hope you enjoy it. Looks to be in Rafael condition.
So, I have never shot my MF lens at infinity. Therefore, the first experience of the hard infinity stop this morning was quite interesting. Seems just as good there even though subjects a bit too small.
