Philly just after sunset...

MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
edited December 27, 2005 in Landscapes
These are pictures I took from the roof of my new studio in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. I was also trying to use a ball grip on my tripod for the first time..

This first pic is a panorama..

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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited December 25, 2005
    First one wouldn't open pic upload screen
    Lets see if I can add that Pano now..
  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited December 25, 2005
    A Planet in the Sky
    I'm not sure what planet this is, but here it hangs above the Philadelphia skyline. I got some close ups of it, but they aren't worth posting..I need to pick up the 500 mm t-mount lens I saw for that..

    MainFragger
  • AndymanAndyman Registered Users Posts: 267 Major grins
    edited December 25, 2005
    Nice panorama, man. I like panoramas.
    It seems to be slightly tilted clockwise though. Ever so slightly.

    How many images is it? And did you do it manually or use an auto-stitcher?
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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited December 25, 2005
    Andyman wrote:
    Nice panorama, man. I like panoramas.
    It seems to be slightly tilted clockwise though. Ever so slightly.

    How many images is it? And did you do it manually or use an auto-stitcher?

    I used 3 images, that are each 8.2 Mpixel images. I used Arcsoft Panorama Maker 3.0 to stitch the together. There is apparently a lot of dirt on my sensor, and I had to clean up (clone out) a lot of "water spots" and hair squiglies on the image, which I don't want to have to do..but I'm getting a lot better at it.. Also, on the far right, I had to even out the contrast as it came out a little darker than the lest two images at first..then I cloned out the delineation between the 2nd and 3rd images. Then I toyed with the over all brightness and contrast to bring the city out a little more, which also happened to really bring out the sky.

    MainFragger
  • behr655behr655 Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited December 25, 2005
    Nice shots. Looks like you shot right across the river from where I've tried to shoot a few times.

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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited December 26, 2005
    you got perfect place for studio !
    is that dead pixel ?
    thanks
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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited December 26, 2005
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    you got perfect place for studio !
    is that dead pixel ?
    thanks

    Nope, its exactly what I said it is..a planet..I'm just not sure which one..

    MainFragger/Brian
  • photonphoton Registered Users Posts: 81 Big grins
    edited December 27, 2005
    Likely Venus...
    MainFragger wrote:
    Nope, its exactly what I said it is..a planet..I'm just not sure which one..

    MainFragger/Brian

    ... assuming the pic was taken recently, it's in about the right spot for Venus.

    Oh, and nice panorama... Love the colours. thumb.gif
    photon
  • nburwellnburwell Registered Users Posts: 87 Big grins
    edited December 27, 2005
    I really like the Pano. Nice job that you did with that.
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