Help Baldy shoot for a 72x240-inch print

MrChristopher

That looks amazing.

dadwtwins

clapclapbowbowclapclap

do i need to say anymore

Baldy

Okay, here's another variation from tonight that was from a darker exposure.

Reason I chose it is the room it's going in is a TV-watching entertainment
room and we're thinking of going darker than we normally would and Andy is
hoping we can somehow have special lighting that we can turn on when
people come to see the print. I'll have to post pics of a few lightboxes we
did.

So I stitched together this darkish one and it looks pretty dramatic, no?

Baldy

Here's a more compact view so you can see it all at once:

MrChristopher

There's only one word for this:

Phenomenal

eoren1

Wow Baldy,
That last one really is awesome. You just can't beat that patch of lit sky over the Transamerica building
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dadwtwins

Baldy,

Since the LCD are much brighter then an actual print, it will be hard to actually know which print would be better.

The last one is pretty freaking awesome but have you made some tear strips yet to see how it will look on paper??

Baldy

dadwtwins wrote:

Baldy,

Since the LCD are much brighter then an actual print, it will be hard to actually know which print would be better.

The last one is pretty freaking awesome but have you made some tear strips yet to see how it will look on paper??

Good idea.

I have a couple more ideas too. The print will take up 3 walls so we thought that on the back wall, the one you don't see while viewing the print, I'd hang two prints: the first would be a collage of attempts showing how SF looks on different nights. Hard to remember some of the older tries like:



And second, place a very tall (96") but narrow (maybe 60") strip of the orange sky version taken with the 600. Maybe just the pyramid or whatever.

DJ-S1

Would you consider cloning out the huge bright sign under the bridge? It jumps out at me in every shot and it really looks out of place. I know it's there in "real life" but I vote for digital demolition of the eyesore!

Baldy

DJ-S1 wrote:

Would you consider cloning out the huge bright sign under the bridge? It jumps out at me in every shot and it really looks out of place. I know it's there in "real life" but I vote for digital demolition of the eyesore!

Hahah, every time I look at it the Shakespeare my mother loved so much comes to mind:

Out, damned spot!

I should honor my mother and Shakespeare.

dadwtwins

Baldy wrote:

Good idea.

I have a couple more ideas too. The print will take up 3 walls so we thought that on the back wall, the one you don't see while viewing the print, I'd hang two prints: the first would be a collage of attempts showing how SF looks on different nights. Hard to remember some of the older tries like:



And second, place a very tall (96") but narrow (maybe 60") strip of the orange sky version taken with the 600. Maybe just the pyramid or whatever.

What a great idea The journey itself deserves its own wall:ivar

BradfordBenn

Very cool! When I asked the wife for a larger display so I can view it I got laughed at though.

Andy

ian408

Andy wrote:

Ha ha ha!

dadwtwins

Andy wrote:

giggle:bread:haha:lollol3

too freaking funny

LKN Dave

Thats great.

Andy wrote:

Baldy

In related news, after mostly figuring out the long lens stitched thing from Treasure Island,
I got curious what the Twin Peaks shot would look like at 800mm. I hadn't seen anyone
do it and I liked the idea of being able to see the ferry building clock tower at the end of
Market.

Here's a not-so good quick stitch and I cropped out the sides like to Coit Tower for display
here. It's a gigapixel with very sharp original pixels. Too bad the sky wasn't more interesting.

Baldy

That's actually a stitch of 50 images. The original pixels look like this:

Andy

I really love the treasure island view, and the magical mauve-y purpl-y color that bathes the buildings in the waning light. I've a bit wider shot, same colors, 6 frames with at about 220mm that I stitched and sent you a nice standout-mounted print from

Yours looks to be quite nice, I can see that in Duratrans or big print, either way.

Baldy

Andy wrote:

I really love the treasure island view, and the magical mauve-y purpl-y color that bathes the buildings in the waning light. I've a bit wider shot, same colors, 6 frames with at about 220mm that I stitched and sent you a nice standout-mounted print from

Yours looks to be quite nice, I can see that in Duratrans or big print, either way.

I liked either the light or post-processing better on yours. The colors were richer and warmer on the buildings.

You oughta post it here.

I liked that mine was right down the barrel of Market Street.

The sky was dingy on both of them, tho my shot had less sky. Sam is gonna try his hand at this shot and maybe he'll get something good enough to print.

Wonder what it'd look like at sunrise instead of sunset?

jcdill

Baldy wrote:

Wonder what it'd look like at sunrise instead of sunset?

The problem with shooting at dawn is that the fog forms overnight - it's rare to have a really clear sky looking in this location at dawn. You might get lucky, but my experience is that I get up early, head into SF, and find fog. :-(

My experience with shooting SF in this direction (north-east) is that it works best on a clear night 20-30 minutes after sunset. The next time we have one of those AWESOME warm days where it is warm and sunny all the way out to the coast (Pacifica, Half Moon Bay) AND it is forecast to be warm that night and warm again the next day, this means BLUE sky after sunset. Hie thyself to a scenic location in SF to shoot north/north/east after sunset.

Is there a gallery with all the panos and closeups in one place?

jc

Baldy

Are you getting bored yet? Here's one later in the evening, stitched from 56 frames... It gets more interesting if you scroll right.

Awais Yaqub

Jaw dropping cool !

xris

The sharpness is truly spectacular!

You're really making me miss San Fan with those latest ones!!!

(So like, where's all the snow!!!)

Baldy

Another day, another swing at the bat.... I included more sky because we had some clouds. Here's a slice. Don't have time to process more for awhile.

DJ-S1

Baldy wrote:

Are you getting bored yet?

:lolThat's a good one! Keep 'em coming!

Baldy

From the obsessive pixel-peeping department, since I had the 800 I took a shot of the ferry building clock tower from Treasure Island to see...well...to see what we could see.

I planted myself to where it was lined up with Market Street behind:

Sam

These are truly amazing! Are you using the 5D II? also how big, in pixels, as well as GB is the original 56 image stitch? I would struggle to process an image a 10th of this size.

Also, how thw heck are you gona get this printed?

Thanks,

Sam

pathfinder

Canon makes some awesome long glass, doesn't it?

Fantastic quality to your shots, Baldy.

Andy