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Untill I get the chance to tweak the 500 megapixel high res, here’s a crop to give you an idea. It’s about 3 rows of 20 photos each stitched together. As the sun was mainly behind me, I wasn’t able to hide and the tripod shadow can be seen at the bottom
Well, considering all the riots going on in the UK, I decided to take a short week break back home to see my mum and our beautiful mountain “bergerie” and tonight is the first night we’re sleeping here.
The weather was pretty overcast but I did get the tripod out to try making a panoramic stitch. I opted for the Nikkor 105mm lens which is normally a macro as it provided the most telephoto length I had in fixed focal lenses I brought with me (I didn’t bring the 200mm f/2.0).
The result? Well I’m quite pleased. Having a good tripod (Gitzo 3541LS) and the indestructible Kirk BH-1 ball head allows for very precise movements and I ended up with a 17 shot wide, 3 shot tall mosaic of 51 shots resulting in a single stitched image over 500 megapixels in size!
The laptop took 1 hour to process and produce a massive TIFF file – the output resolution was beyond what the program could produce in jpeg format.
The weather should be better tomorrow so if I can get out of bed early enough and the skies are clear, I’ll make a pano of the Pyrénéan mountains as seen from the front of our bergerie at dawn, although it’ll be a few days before I can post it as I have no internet access on my laptop (writing this from my blackberry).
Till then, goodnight
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It’s been a month since I posted, and that’s not only a long time, but also not because nothing has been happening – on the contrary! Things have been rather busy and I just haven’t taken the time to do an update yet we’re now in August.
Beginning of July, Bas was over with his family, and as well as catching up, Nahed (Bas’ wife) has always lovingly harrassed me for photos of their kids, so I went along with the camera.
After playing badminton and a mini firework display which I tried to shoot on vide, we went back indoors and once again, the D3s surpassed my expectations in its low light ability. Whilst film still arguably has more dynamic range than digital, the ability to shoot dimly lit scenes is something that the newer generation of digital sensors do amazingly well.
Here’s Juju watching TV. D3s + Nikkor 200mm f/2.0 at f/2.2, 1/60th (I guess the VR helps for those low shutter speeds) and ISO 9000.
Faysal enjoying his episodes of Spongebob.
And the Dr himself!
The following day, we went back for more shooting, but like Orlando, it wasn’t the camera that was shooting… I’ll post about it soon.
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Nearly a year on from shooting Dot’s birthday party, it was time for Becky’s and I went along to take some photos. We used the same venue and there was an idea of making it a surprise party, however it turned out that Becky recognised a car’s number plate in the hotel car park, so the surprise wasn’t such a surprise after all!
All the other photos (and videos) can be viewed in the gallery, here.
Many thanks to Dot and the great family and friends for a lovely evening. The kids were wonderful and I think there are a few budding dance superstars in the making!
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Last night was TangoSouth’s big Summer ball at the Memorial Hall in Farnham.
It was a superb evening and wonderful to have Los Mareados band accompanying us through with some lovely live music.
Photos of the evening are online here and available to purchase as digital files.
Many thanks to Jen and Peter for organising such a wonderful evening. A lot of effort went into it and you could just feel the lovely vibe all the way through the hall. I can’t wait till the next one!
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Hey Xav, these pictures are excellent – such vibrant colours! Well done!!
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