Another San Francisco Pano

dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
edited December 15, 2004 in Landscapes
Anand and I are in the same Bay Area photo group, so I'm going to post my take of the San Francisco skyline. I chose a different route on the post processing with cooler colors. There are 8 shots stitched together.

This is my first ever panorama. I took this with a table top tripod mounted on the nearest trash can. This was mistakenly shot at ISO 1000! I HATE it when I do that!!

Since Sunday, I have bought a great new tripod & head. Hopefully this will keep me off the trash cans :)

Any comments/ suggestions are always welcome.

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Thanks for looking!
Dave
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  • damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
    edited December 14, 2004
    Beautiful...great view of the SF skyline...are you going to try it again at a lower iso?
  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited December 14, 2004
    damonff wrote:
    Beautiful...great view of the SF skyline...are you going to try it again at a lower iso?

    That is my next planned shot. I made many rookie mistakes on this first attempt. The auto WB about killed me, thank god for RAW. This image is also a little soft. I put the lens in manual focus mode & just cranked it to infinity not knowing that it was the wrong thing to do. I will have to be very careful of my focus next time.

    With my step-by-step panorama checklist I created after the fact, hopefully I can get a good one & print it 13x44 to mat & frame.

    Thanks for the kind words.

    Dave
    http://analog.lifekapptured.com (photoblog)
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  • obelixobelix Registered Users Posts: 165 Major grins
    edited December 14, 2004
    dkapp wrote:
    Anand and I are in the same Bay Area photo group, so I'm going to post my take of the San Francisco skyline. I chose a different route on the post processing with cooler colors. There are 8 shots stitched together.

    I really like your sky and reflections :). Have to revisit my post processing :)
    Anand Sankaran

    http://clix.smugmug.com
  • robscomputerrobscomputer Registered Users Posts: 326 Major grins
    edited December 15, 2004
    That's a great picture, for ISO 1000 it doesn't show much noise.


    BTW which photo group are you with?

    Rob
    Enjoying photography since 1980.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited December 15, 2004
    I like that you were at the same location shooting the same pano yet your
    interpretations are different than Anand's (both are good).

    Very nice!

    Ian
    Moderator Journeys/Sports/Big Picture :: Need some help with dgrin?
  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited December 15, 2004
    robscomputer wrote:
    That's a great picture, for ISO 1000 it doesn't show much noise.


    BTW which photo group are you with?

    Rob

    It was a group started by Nikon D70 users, but quickly moved away from that & anyone can come along. We have a small forum run by one of the members.

    http://www.soocool.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

    If your in the area, feel free to come along. Its a great time.

    Dave
    http://analog.lifekapptured.com (photoblog)
    http://www.lifekapptured.com (gallery)
  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited December 15, 2004
    ian408 wrote:
    I like that you were at the same location shooting the same pano yet your
    interpretations are different than Anand's (both are good).

    Very nice!

    Ian

    There were 4 of us there, and there have been no two alike yet :)

    You gotta love it

    Dave
    http://analog.lifekapptured.com (photoblog)
    http://www.lifekapptured.com (gallery)
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited December 15, 2004
    dkapp wrote:
    It was a group started by Nikon D70 users, but quickly moved away from that & anyone can come along. We have a small forum run by one of the members.

    http://www.soocool.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

    If your in the area, feel free to come along. Its a great time.

    Dave
    I was wondering where you'd gone. All is revealed, now! Looks like a nice group of folks.
    Sid.
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  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited December 15, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    I was wondering where you'd gone. All is revealed, now! Looks like a nice group of folks.

    I've been here every day reading the some of the posts, just didn't have time to comment.

    Things are much slower now, and I'm really enjoying the photography the last week. I have more to post when I get back from work :)

    Later,
    Dave
    http://analog.lifekapptured.com (photoblog)
    http://www.lifekapptured.com (gallery)
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