[Polandspring88]

Figured I would post up a few of my first attempts at shooting some panoramics. Grabbed these on my recent trip to Iceland. No fancy pano gear was used, just a tripod, ballhead, and photo stitching (Hugin and Photoshop). Both were taken using a Nikon D600 and 24-70. Let me know what you think; I'll be starting another thread with more pics from the trip but I wanted to share these.

Northern lights over Pingvellir National Park

Sunrise over the Solaris, Reykjavik

 

[binary visions]

Very cool!

With #2, I have a little trouble with the boat sculpture sitting right on the other focal point of the scene (the sunrise).

Looking forward to the other pictures, too. Iceland is on my list.

 

[Polandspring88]

Very cool!

With #2, I have a little trouble with the boat sculpture sitting right on the other focal point of the scene (the sunrise).

Looking forward to the other pictures, too. Iceland is on my list.

*glass breaking*

Until you said that about #2 I hadn't noticed. Now it's going to bother me. Crappers.

You definitely have to go. It's so rugged and unique. I wish I had enough money to do the 2 week island tour with one of the reputable companies; I met a guy who had done so and they went to some incredible places. C'est la vie, it will give me something to look forward to for next time.

 

[binary visions]

On #2, I think if you could have gotten up higher so the sun was over the middle of the boat rather than behind it, it might have fixed it. Still a great shot, though - very serene.

Incidentally... do you have a higher res version (like 2-3x bigger) of #1? I'd love to see it, and details on what your exposure parameters were.

 

[Polandspring88]

Made this one just for you BV. It's taken from the other side of the sculpture, this time with the 14-24mm.

I'll see what I can do about the higher res upload of the other one. I think the quality got degraded a bit because its only a single row pano and photoshop had to do some fair distortion when stitching the frames together. That and it's also like 15,000 pixels wide . Exposures were made at 6 seconds, F/2.8, ISO 3200, 24mm and focused at infinity.

 

[Toshi]

I like the last one.

 

[rockofullr]

I like the last one.

Agreed.

The contrail does a great job drawing the eye from one subject to the other. Also the boat is more dynamic with the bow coming towards the viewer.

 

[binary visions]

Made this one just for you BV. It's taken from the other side of the sculpture, this time with the 14-24mm.

That one is awesome.

 

[stevew]

moar?

 

[Polandspring88]

moar?

Coming tonight. I got most of the way through my editing last night.