Lake Manyara flamingoes
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:22 pmThere I was in Tanzania, looking out the top of our Land Rover at thousands of flamingoes, but how to capture the scene?
(click on this for a 10% version)
It looks rather silly here, but I did a 2.8m-wide print on roll paper (only 20cm high) and it's quite impressive. I'm considering a larger print on canvas in 3 sections (so there's room for doorways/etc) with a little overlap between sections so the continuity works.
Here's a detail:
These photos were taken with at the 35mm-equivalent focal length of 640mm (all in horizontal format) at 1/800s, f/8, ISO 200 (with an EOS 30D and 100-400mm zoom). All-up I used 21 shots for this panorama, and the resulting image is 28607x2077 pixels (over 59 megapixels).
There wasn't any point in shooting in vertical format as that would just have included more sky and foreground (unless I added a 1.4x TC to the lens). It was shot hand-held, panning across the horizon (I was limited on the left by other vehicles, and on the right by a lack of interest). I was also limited by my colleagues ("Why are you taking so many photos? Can we go now?") and if I'd taken a bit more time I might have got slightly higher image quality (but these birds were fairly distant and there's a fair bit of atmosphere in the way anyway).
As for the panorama, this was generated with PTGui, with auto-generated control points. I just had to wait a couple of hours for my PowerBook to grind out the result...
I guess I'm not expecting much in the way of image critique here: this is the sort of image that needs to be seen in a large print to get the full effect rather than appearing as just a long thin smudge...
(click on this for a 10% version)
It looks rather silly here, but I did a 2.8m-wide print on roll paper (only 20cm high) and it's quite impressive. I'm considering a larger print on canvas in 3 sections (so there's room for doorways/etc) with a little overlap between sections so the continuity works.
Here's a detail:
These photos were taken with at the 35mm-equivalent focal length of 640mm (all in horizontal format) at 1/800s, f/8, ISO 200 (with an EOS 30D and 100-400mm zoom). All-up I used 21 shots for this panorama, and the resulting image is 28607x2077 pixels (over 59 megapixels).
There wasn't any point in shooting in vertical format as that would just have included more sky and foreground (unless I added a 1.4x TC to the lens). It was shot hand-held, panning across the horizon (I was limited on the left by other vehicles, and on the right by a lack of interest). I was also limited by my colleagues ("Why are you taking so many photos? Can we go now?") and if I'd taken a bit more time I might have got slightly higher image quality (but these birds were fairly distant and there's a fair bit of atmosphere in the way anyway).
As for the panorama, this was generated with PTGui, with auto-generated control points. I just had to wait a couple of hours for my PowerBook to grind out the result...
I guess I'm not expecting much in the way of image critique here: this is the sort of image that needs to be seen in a large print to get the full effect rather than appearing as just a long thin smudge...
