Balls Head Panorama…

[Remorhaz]

Trying out my newly repaired D600 and 16-35 with some stitched panoramas at Balls Head Reserve. (NB: My camera is back with Nikon again now - sigh... - whilst the images it took were perfect - the viewfinder focus was out (diopter only made it worse in both directions) and the 16-35 was very hard to mount/unmount)

Almost thirty minutes after sunset and we’re well into twilight blue hour with this eight frame stitched panorama incorporating Sydney’s CBD all sparkling at night around to the still burning skies out to the west. with very long exposures for each frame it takes some time to complete the whole set – and the light was noticeably dropping fast so I was manually increasing the exposure time for each frame as I went to compensate – I started at just over 30 seconds for the first frame on the right and by the time I’d rotated around to the last frame on the left I was out to many minutes

Sydney Twilight

[stubbsy]

Rodney - while looking at this size isn't ideal I'd say it was well worth the effort and you appear to have done well with the exposure adjustments.

[Remorhaz]

Rodney - while looking at this size isn't ideal I'd say it was well worth the effort and you appear to have done well with the exposure adjustments.

Thanks Peter - I've edited the image link above so you can now click through the image to a larger (1920 wide) version to see full screen

It did require some "finessing" in post to get it to work

[aim54x]

That exposure is great, shame to hear that your D600 is back with Nikon, hopefully they will be able to sort it out soon

[Remorhaz]

That exposure is great, shame to hear that your D600 is back with Nikon, hopefully they will be able to sort it out soon

Thanks - me too - they did say it will be done within a week (so thats Monday - fingers crossed)...

[stubbsy]

Rodney - while looking at this size isn't ideal I'd say it was well worth the effort and you appear to have done well with the exposure adjustments.

Thanks Peter - I've edited the image link above so you can now click through the image to a larger (1920 wide) version to see full screen

It did require some "finessing" in post to get it to work

Oh yes Rodney - even better at the larger size

[CraigVTR]

Very nice. Not an angle of the city you see very often. It may be just me but it seems the horizon dips to the right.

[Remorhaz]

Very nice. Not an angle of the city you see very often. It may be just me but it seems the horizon dips to the right

It's quite possible - none of that fancy pano head sh*t for me - just the plain old ball head and no level - that's what eyeballing it is for

[biggerry]

- just the plain old ball head and no level - that's what eyeballing it is for

says he who checks the virtual horizon

YMMV, however imo 3 things kill it for me

1) the bush on the right side, clone, colourise, crop it, whatever just dont leave it in there...

2) the good stuff is too small within the frame and there is too much blue space around - now this may well be the way you intended and some do like this but for me not so much.

3) Less is more, the smoky haze is cool, the colour is nice but it all competes way too much with the rest of the image

Personally, i would crop for the city and goat island, there is sweet twilight there and the city is nicely lit

[Remorhaz]

- just the plain old ball head and no level - that's what eyeballing it is for

says he who checks the virtual horizon

Yes but unfortunately it doesn't work for panos - it might get it level for that one shot but when you rotate you're hosed

1) the bush on the right side, clone, colourise, crop it, whatever just dont leave it in there...

Yeah OK - it better be easy to seamlessly clone or I'm going to be mad

2) the good stuff is too small within the frame and there is too much blue space around - now this may well be the way you intended and some do like this but for me not so much.

Yep - I need a good midrange zoom (like a 24-70) - I was at max 35mm for this and wanted a bit more

3) Less is more, the smoky haze is cool, the colour is nice but it all competes way too much with the rest of the image
Personally, i would crop for the city and goat island, there is sweet twilight there and the city is nicely lit

Thanks Gerry - appreciate the candid feedback - I hear you - hard to resist that smoky haze tho - there is plenty of rez to crop tho since I stitched the pano - e.g. this 2:1 pano:

[Glen]

Absolutely stupendous in the high res version, exposure matching is great

[Remorhaz]

1) the bush on the right side, clone, colourise, crop it, whatever just dont leave it in there...

Wadaya know - it was easy - cheers

Absolutely stupendous in the high res version, exposure matching is great

Cheers Glen

[biggerry]

Thanks Gerry - appreciate the candid feedback

well I coulda been honest I suppose and told you what I really think only kidding, anytime... well, almost anytime, just not on fridays..

Wadaya know - it was easy - cheers

improved. Now for the next trick, cut the guts out and join the two sides together and I will be impressed...