Valley of Fire Panorama
This is a 9 image panorama stitched using PTGui. The images were captured a little more than an hour after the sun had set. The rocks become intensely red in the afterglow.
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Panasonic Lumix S1R, 24-105 f/4 lens. Exposure triad: f/16, 1 sec., ISO 200.
Testing the Panasonic Leica 45mm Macro
This is a two image pano shot using the Panasonic Lumix GH5 and the Panasonic Leica 45mm macro lens. The exposure triad is f/7.1, 2 sec at ISO 200. Raw images processed in Capture One exported as TIFFs and stitched using Affinity. See the image full size to see how great this combination is.
The Grand Tetons and Mt. Moran
Just back after a truly wonderful trip to Yellowstone and The Grand Tetons.This is a panorama captured at sunrise yesterday October 8, 2016, just a few hours before heading to the airport to return home.Please do click on the image for a lager rendition. In its native state the image is 153 inches wide at 240 ppi.
No Aurora but the Milky Way
March 28, 2015 - Alaska Geo. Inst. forecasts a Kp index of 5 for the Aurora. Kp 5 means - if the Aurora occurs you should be able to see it low on the horizon in Massachusetts. Sounds awesome so we decide against going for the CamNats (Massachusetts Camera Naturalists) and head to Maine. Acadia is always a great spot so we head to the loop road. WRONG most of the roads are closed. A nice cop gives us direction on how to get to Sand Beach - so it is about midnight and we find our way to the parking lot. Poor visibility forces us out of there and heading further towards Otter Cliffs. The road is closed at the turnoff to Otter Cliff road. We pull over into a small clearing at one of the entrances to a parking lot and wait for the Aurora - nothing. Well the Milky Way rises over the cliffs so we wait. 3:15 and the Milky Way shows its full arc. It is cold, the wind does not help. I mounted the Rokinon 14mm on the Sony A7R to get this image. The foreground trees were light painted during the exposure.Please click on the image for a larger presentation.
A subsequent 7 image pano yielded the arc but the 14mm lend distortion is apparent.
California - September 2012 PSA Conference
September 30, 2012 - It is good to be back in San Francisco with a decent internet connection. I took a few images during the conference in and around Golden Gate Park and the Headlands. Will be posting images from the Yosemite and Mono Lake workshop in a subsequent post.