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Gerry will have already seen some of these... good, bad, indifferent, suggestions...

A bunch of 2 minute exposures taken over 45 minutes stitched

Longing for Kirribilli


About ten minutes before sunset a rip in the fabric of space appears above the city

A Tear in Space


and it's pano time again

Cracks in Space


and a bit of light painting with some random luck lightning strikes over the city at the same time

Lightning Orb

Rodney, they are nice shots and i reckon you have improved substantially over the years. In the eyes of the googlers they are all quite good and I agree, but in the interest of giving some critique...

1st image.

Why take so many shots for this pano? i really struggle to understand why people do this when 3 or 4 shots will suffice - it also increases the chance for error, especially with shots where shit changes quickly. I know this scene can be easily done in 4 odd shots at 40mm (or there abouts) with no distortion - note the curve of the bridge on the right - panos , imo, should achieve very nice flat and proportioned perspective hence the popular focal length of 50 mm for doing them (note there are some exceptions to this)

as you already know, the clouds behind the bridge stick out like cat pictures on social media and for that i would crop the image or scrap it.

2nd image

this has the most merit, it feels very dark, but if that's the look, your going for than all good. i prefer a lighter image with more detail, buts that's a preference thing. Sky looks epic here - you could have cat pictures below that and still have a great image.

3rd image
same as 2nd image.

Is there any reason why you did not take any image with only water in the foreground? The stone jetty works well in the second image, but not so much in the others.

4th image

crop the bottom 20 percent..much better then in my opinion.

Rodney, They are simply stunning and could easily be sold as fine prints at the tourists shops such as those at Darling Harbour etc. Beautiful work.

I like the 1, 2 and 3 in this order. I don't like the
light effect in the 4th and I think it takes away
rather than enhance the otherwise fine photo.

Thankyou Gerry

biggerry wrote:1st image. Why take so many shots for this pano? i really struggle to understand why people do this when 3 or 4 shots will suffice - it also increases the chance for error, especially with shots where shit changes quickly. I know this scene can be easily done in 4 odd shots at 40mm (or there abouts) with no distortion - note the curve of the bridge on the right - panos , imo, should achieve very nice flat and proportioned perspective hence the popular focal length of 50 mm for doing them

in the end this scene used 9 frames taken at 48mm (:)) with 50% overlap (I know less overlap is all that is required but I'm used to 50% so I stick with what works). I doubt I could have done 4 shots for this without doing less than 25% overlap or using horizontal frames?
the other excess frames were because I was forced to go back and reshoot some of them (massive cruise ship stuffed a few of them, etc) - to be honest I'm totally surprised I got anything to stitch at all with this one

2nd image - this has the most merit, it feels very dark, but if that's the look, your going for than all good. i prefer a lighter image with more detail, buts that's a preference thing. Sky looks epic here - you could have cat pictures below that and still have a great image.

Yep - dark was the go - lighter lost the impact for me... and LMFAO

Is there any reason why you did not take any image with only water in the foreground? The stone jetty works well in the second image, but not so much in the others.

Probably only because we were actually setup to do the light painting and I couldn't be stuffed moving (and if I moved forward we'd all have to move forward or I'd be in their shots). I also shot panos from the end of the jetty with just water at the bottom last time I was here so something different this time was ok for me

4th image crop the bottom 20 percent..much better then in my opinion.

as it happens "my" version is like this - 16:9 aspect (good call) - but I posted the 3:2

Love the first one, as always. Great stuff.

Incredible images and like Matt K said, they could easily be sold to tourists etc. I enjoyed looking at these very much.

Thanks Ozi and Geoff