Handheld pano shot of Fareham Creek

[kipper]

While I was in the UK I took this portrait pano shot of Fareham Creek. I didn't have a tripod while I was there so I had to make do without. Only one fault that I've noticed is with the masts of the boat. There is ghosting there and is either to do with being handheld, or more probably the slight rolling of the boats between shots. Which would become apparently when Panorama Factory overlaps and blends.


<img src="http://www.morganpost.com/FarehamCreek.jpg">

[sirhc55]

Love the light in this pano kipper and even tho’ you have pointed out the masts problem I don’t believe it is anything to worry too much about. BTW - this pic is of Fareham Inlet - we don’t have creeks in the UK

[kipper]

Ummh, it's called Fareham Creek. I was born in Woodside 2minutes up the road mate

[sirhc55]

Ummh, it's called Fareham Creek. I was born in Woodside 2minutes up the road mate

My sincere apologies kipper - I used to go to Fareham on my holidays when I was but a sprout and always thought it was Inlet - I must be thinking of somewhere else.


Still it is a great pic

[kipper]

Nah that is cool. I called it a river when I was there and my good family friend quickly corrected me.

[Matty B]

Great effort for a low light hand-held multi exposure image. I see the duplicate mast, it's very minor detail and could be cloned out of the shot easily. 10 / 10 top effort.

[leek]

Great Pano Kipper... Make's me feel quite homesick for a place where they have tides of more than a metre...

Handheld is the way to go...

[kipper]

I don't think it appeared that dark when I took the shot because it was about 10am in the morning. Although being winter it is darker then normal. Maybe my exposure settings was 1-stop under.

The only thing I did to this image in PS is duplicate the image layer, desaturate, invert, make the layer a soft light and dropped the layer to about 40%. I always find that this helps to bring out more contrast in the sky and give the foreground if underexposed (in my case it was) a bit more detail. It also made the orange in the sky more intense. I don't always do it, but I found it worked in this case.

[the foto fanatic]

nice image kipper

[kipper]

Yep, I'm very homesick for England at the moment. Really considering going back there to live. Something I really have noticed since I've been back in Australia, and don't get me wrong I love Australia. I think it has a lot to offer - cheap housing, cheap food, cheap dining out, lifestyle, cheap camera gear etc. However I went to work today which is about 15-20km (50min by bus) from where I live. In all that journey I didn't see one thing that I wanted to photograph - not one!

The photograph in this photo I took going from where I was staying to my nans house. All of 5min up the road from where I was staying, and 1min from a reasonable size town. Perhaps I'm just biased but I find it difficult to find anything worth shooting here unless I travel atleast 1-1.5hr away from my home eg. Cape Schanck, Stoney Point, Queenscliff Lighthouse, Aireys Inlet, Dandenong Rainforest etc.

Wheres Europe there always seemed to be a photographic opportunity just around the corner.

[Killakoala]

Interesting comments.

I know what you mean. But remember that the UK is more compact and has a lot more in it than Australia, that's why you have to travel so far to see anything worth shooting here (landscape-wise).

If you look really hard i'm sure you'll find something to photograph. I know what you mean though. Living in Ryde as i do, i find it hard to find anything interesting to photograph here, but if i travel just one suburb, to somewhere i don't live or normally go to, then i find things to photograph. It might be that you are used to seeing the same things day-in, day-out and it's just not inspirational enough for you anymore.

Then again, i assume you live in Melbourne so that might also be a major factor in not finding anything interesting

(Just kidding, there's a lot of interesting things in Melb)

[sirhc55]

I know what you mean kipper as I to miss the prolification of object matter that Europe offers. But, in saying that, I believe that Australia offers thousands of photograph opportunities, you just have to look a little harder