Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I had the pleasure of visiting San Francisco and as always try to find a position from which one of the great bridges can be viewed with the city without reproducing what everyone shows! It's touch since there have been millions of pictures take, I found a small cove to the right of a small coast guard station. In my enthusiasm, I thought that too would be wonderful, but, the Gigapan Robot took over and I ended up with a perfectly imaged grand picture without anything compelling to the eye.
I then simply went freehand and took 8 vertical pictures in one row and here's the result.
Asher Kelman: At the Edge of San Francisco Bay
This image was built using the camera to draw in the sky, just sweeping the camera with one's eye in the viewfinder, and collecting just what's needed to to build the view in the mind. I was overjoyed to find a satisfactory picture could indeed be assembled freehand. This means that with very large panoramas, one has to gain an extra measure of discipline in order to match what one can do with just a simple fast approach.
Asher
I then simply went freehand and took 8 vertical pictures in one row and here's the result.
Asher Kelman: At the Edge of San Francisco Bay
This image was built using the camera to draw in the sky, just sweeping the camera with one's eye in the viewfinder, and collecting just what's needed to to build the view in the mind. I was overjoyed to find a satisfactory picture could indeed be assembled freehand. This means that with very large panoramas, one has to gain an extra measure of discipline in order to match what one can do with just a simple fast approach.
Asher