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It was cold, there was snow on the ground, it was cold, and did I mention it was cold? But that doesn’t stop us from shooting! I also did another panoramic on the grounds of Amanda’s grandmothers farm. What a beautiful location.
Ok I had to post this quickly. I have so many comments on so many of these photos and no time to leave them! Other than Vanessa and David’s session rocked in Manhattan and Central Park.
Introducing Petrina and Dan! They wanted to have their photos done in one of my favorite places, Milford, CT. I used to live there so I know the area pretty well. Come to find out, Dan works in the boat yard that I always park at and seem to be around. So why not start and end there?
I keep meaning to blog about Karey and Steve’s photos! They are finally here! Woo! We met up at Harkness Park right before the sunset. There were so many ways to play with the light and colors.
I’ve been experimenting with some new software and some new equipment lately. It’s something a little different than what I normally do, but that’s just it. I have a need to explore and experiment. So I photographed Petrina and Dan yesterday and brought along some extra equipment I don’t normally take to an engagement session.
First, I pulled off another 2 panoramas. I’ll give you an idea of how large this 200 degree image is:
My camera takes a 5,616 x 3,744 pixel image, which is 21.1 mega pixel.
This image size is 26,107 x 4,738 pixels, which is equivalent to 123.7 mega pixel. It is a perfect print quality 7 foot x 15.75 inch image.
I wanted to really test out the software on something hard to mend together. So we went on the walking bridge in Milford to take a 180 degree image.
This one came out to be 14,162 x 4,712, about 66.7 mega pixel.
It didn’t come out right the first time. But after some tweaking it nearly nailed it.
If any photographer would like to see the full size images, e-mail me and I’ll send you the link to download them.
At this point we were just waiting for the sunset, but it never really showed up. I took out my new strobe (flash) setup with some updated and now seemingly working equipment. I came up with these two shots. Dan works in this boat yard.
I wasn’t sure if this was going to work. It was done with 1 flash, placed on the ground behind them, pointed at the white hull of the boat in front of them. So not only did the flash light up behind them for the rim lighting, but bounced off the boat to light the front of them. That nearly blew me away when it worked.
I have a lot more ideas in my head that I can’t wait to interpret with my camera!
12.14.2009
These are amazing. Thank you so much for braving the cold with us!
12.22.2009
I really like the idea of adding a panorama to your blog post! Keep up the great work!