Taking panorama shots is one of things I really enjoy about digital cameras. If you have this feature one your camera, you should try it out. Of course, the other great thing is being able to take pictures that show off the beautiful place you live. |
Taking panorama shots is one of things I really enjoy about digital cameras. If you have this feature one your camera, you should try it out. Of course, the other great thing is being able to take pictures that show off the beautiful place you live. |
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The storm that is moving in dumped six feet of new snow on the mountains in 3 hours.
This intro to your diary brought a gasp from me at first sight! We need to talk. How did you get that panorama? I love the thought of the snow approaching.
It depends on your camera. I’m using a mid-range Canon SureShot. When you use the panorama feature, it does several things:
1. It locks in all the settings (including the zoom).
2. It names the images in sequence (e.g., sta_101.jpg, stb_102.jpg, stc_103.jpg).
3. It shows you the overlap in the lcd.
But it’s up to you to keep the camera at the same angle and level for all the shots and to get the overlap right. I’d say I’m successful about half the time.
Then use you use”stitching software” (I use PhotoStitch which came with the Canon) that merges the individual pictures into a single image.
Thanks AndiF. This is great information! I have Nikon CoolPics 2500…a solid little camera but with problems. Thanks so much for the tip on “locking in” the settings. Wow! I’m excited now to try more. Thanks much!
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The day after this was taken, we hiked down to the inner gorge. It was snowing on the rim but 7 miles and 5,800 feet later, we were wearing shorts.
Andi, your panaromic vistas are so alive with movement! I absolutely love this one.
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The Sawback range is part of the Canadian Rockies front range. On the other side of the Bow River Valley from them, the mountains look very different with rounded peaks and less steep slopes.
All of them are great — this one though, the perspective and framing are just superb!
Thank you for sharing these! I am getting to go so many places this a.m.!
Me, too, Brinn. There’s something about it. I think it’s the contrast between the soft fluffy clouds and the incredibly sharp-looking edge to the ridge, as if a photo from one planet had been overlaid onto a photo of the sky on another planet.
that’s a tremendous shot – the interplay of the trees, mountains and clouds is perfection. Great framing
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The ruin sits in an alcove that today overlooks the Navajo reservation. You have to cross a swinging suspension footbridge over the San Juan River to get to the ruin.
I can’t believe it… I’ve been to this place. The suspension bridge, the ruins, the reservation, Bluff. It was many years ago, my Aunt/Uncle owned the bar, the restaurant, and the gas station in Bluff, I was just a kid. We climbed the Navajo Twins just outside of town. Georgous shot.
We love this whole area, really great hiking — especially Cedar Mesa. (We also have a big weakness for the fry bread at the Twin Rocks Cafe, which may not have been there if it has been a long time since you’ve been there.)
AndiF
I found it difficult to choose a “favorite” from among your photos – they are all memorable for different reasons.
This is the one I finally chose. It was the one that kept coming back to my mind.
I have never been to Utah, but I have been in the AZ area. The dark of the darkness of the alcove feels cool and protected – safe. And then there is that magnificent view!
There are so many textures in the browns. I find myself chuckling when I think of a paint or crayon being called “earth.”
And then there are those marvelous clouds in a range of whites and grays – and blue, blue, blue of that sky.
And when I bring my eyes to the forefront of the alcove, there you have captured interesting twigs and grasses.
I wonder if creatures that “hole up” in the day spend their time admiring their surroundings too. And I wonder what it looked like when the Anasazi sat in that space.
A photo for the eyes and imagination.
Thanks.
I really love this photo because I felt it captured how I felt while standing in that alcove — and it’s so nice to see that the feelings I had can be shared.
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In all our hiking, we have never seen a meadow with as many flowers as this one. It’s spectacular.
Sunset at Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park
This Jeffrey Pine (which we named “Edward Scissortree”) was the subject of a famous Ansel Adams image which you can see here. Sadly, the tree blew down two weeks after this picture was taken.
Love the composition. Such stark contrasts. Lovely photos Andi. Really inspiring.
Morning Light, Brown County Indiana
The county I live in is very hilly and heavily forested because, unlike what people think of as typical Indiana landscape, this area was never glaciated.
This one is my favorite of all your photos, although I enjoyed them all. It captures that misty, soft light the old artists like TC Steele loved so well. Great photos!
Thank you — it’s really nice of you to make a comparison to T.C. Steele. Too bad I can’t paint like him.
AndiF
Snow Patterns, Brown County Indiana
This snow was so wet and heavy that it took off the tops of nearly every cedar tree in our woods.
Lake in Fall, Brown County Indian
This little lake belongs to the 800 acre kids camp with which we share most of our property line. It neatly illustrates why this county is so popular with leaf lookers.
I was playing some Scottish accordion before the local Rabbie Burns Supper. A Glasgow woman leaned over and said “You’re makin’ me homesick, laddie.”
Having spent my entire life in Ohio except for about 3 cumulative months’ travel, I didn’t have a gut feel for the remark. But now that I’ve moved to the Pac NW and left behind all the familiar weather and seasons of the midwest, this autumn scene of yours brings our Scots friend’s remark into sharp focus.
I have a feeling Mrs. Gooserock will make a print of this one. It’ll be our “Auld Lang Syne” picture for the day.
Hollow in Spring, Brown County Indiana
This is my favorite spot on our property. It can smooth out my most jagged emotions.
AndiF these are spectacular. My favs are Snow Squall at GC and EdwardScissorTree (so true!), but there’s something about the Sawback Mountain Range shot that keeps me going back to it.
Thank you!
As our Irish fluter friend would say. That’s a fine camera(s) you’re using but your care and vision behind the shutter are really inspiring!
You guys are good. What musuem is your artwork in? Talk about intimidating…I don’t think I’ll be sending in any photos! I think I love the pic with the snow the best. Probably because I’ve never been able to capture anything like that.
Send in your photos!! I’m sure they’ll be great and I know everybody will enjoy seeing them.
And I’m just a snapshot shooter — the credit goes to the manufacturers who’ve made digital cameras so smart. My greatest virtue is a willingness to keep taking shots till I get one I like.
We have about 25 disks of photo and doesn’t even include our photography for work. It’s hard to whittle down and right now we’re arguing over which pics to send. I told my husband to get his own dang account and send in his own pics. We’ll get this settled tonight. Hopefully. 🙂
my, my your skills are simply to be envied. Awesome.
Yap.Very very good!