Another large panorama, taken on Saturday evening after I'd been out on the photowalk. This is a 30-shot panorama (three rows by ten columns) for a total of 452 megapixels.
Taken from about half-way along the west side of the Cambie Street bridge, this is the view of the Yaletown area of downtown Vancouver and False Creek. The Quayside Marina can be seen at the bottom of the photograph.
This was shortly after sunset on a beautiful but very cold day. No HDR on this shot, just fixed exposures of 8 seconds, f/8, 105mm. I had to wait quite a long time to get all the water shots without any ripples or disturbances from passing water taxis or pleasure craft travelling along the creek.
This has more than enough detail to see the many Vancouver residents who are a bit tardy at taking their Christmas trees down!
The full resolution, zoomable panorama can be interactively explored on Gigapan -- use the mouse wheel to zoom in and drag around, or click on the snapshots below the main image:
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LOVE this. One of the best night scenes I have seen!!!! I do a few panos but I didn't know you could stich them horizontally and vertically in the same shot or program. Must try this out. Excellent
Also I am strongly considering forking out the extra $$$ and getting the 16-35mm f/2.8. I think the wider aperture will make the lens more useful and after seeing the work you and @grizzlysghost do with this lens... I still have a lot to think about though, my mind keeps changing!
@pocketmouse Thanks! If you don't need it urgently, wait to see what price the 14-24mm has attached to it (when it's announced), it's f/2.8 and should be a better landscape lens.
my god, you're good Alexis. I'm working tonight on the panorama with which you've been helping me. hoping to bug you with some advice. say, are you a Unix guy by chance?
Seeing your photos reminds me of my other life (work, home, photography) in Metro Vancouver :-). Always, your photos are extremely beautiful than ordinary sight.
I have been zooming in this for ages in gigapan and it is mind blowing! a fave not that you, sir, need it! I see on giga that one can create stuff in it is that true and what kind of gear do you need?
Gigapan provide two services -- they provide the hosting for the full-size images in a way that lets you explore them easily, and they also provide machines that will control your camera and produce images like this automatically.
I only use them as a way to display my large panoramas -- while I would love a Gigapan machine, the model I need for my camera is too expensive for me to easily justify. The equipment I use for these images is simply a tripod -- I take a photograph, turn the camera so it's got about a 1/5 frame overlap from the previous image, take another photograph, and so on.
Once you have these images, you can stitch them together in panorama stitching software. I almost always use software called Hugin, which is free, but there are many other free and commercial alternatives (including Photoshop, which has basic panorama stitching support). There is plenty of discussion on the 'Discuss' section of the site about stitching software.
While a panorama like this involves a reasonable amount of work, getting started with panorama stitching is easy and fun, and is a great new technique to learn -- you can stitch together as few as two photographs, as long as they overlap.
Also I am strongly considering forking out the extra $$$ and getting the 16-35mm f/2.8. I think the wider aperture will make the lens more useful and after seeing the work you and @grizzlysghost do with this lens... I still have a lot to think about though, my mind keeps changing!
Gigapan provide two services -- they provide the hosting for the full-size images in a way that lets you explore them easily, and they also provide machines that will control your camera and produce images like this automatically.
I only use them as a way to display my large panoramas -- while I would love a Gigapan machine, the model I need for my camera is too expensive for me to easily justify. The equipment I use for these images is simply a tripod -- I take a photograph, turn the camera so it's got about a 1/5 frame overlap from the previous image, take another photograph, and so on.
Once you have these images, you can stitch them together in panorama stitching software. I almost always use software called Hugin, which is free, but there are many other free and commercial alternatives (including Photoshop, which has basic panorama stitching support). There is plenty of discussion on the 'Discuss' section of the site about stitching software.
While a panorama like this involves a reasonable amount of work, getting started with panorama stitching is easy and fun, and is a great new technique to learn -- you can stitch together as few as two photographs, as long as they overlap.