The view from the Summit House atop Mt. Holyoke.
This is a variation on the panoramas I’ve been doing off and on over the past few months. It’s a vertorama, composed of seven individual frames stacked one on top of the other. Taken from about 935 feet above ground at the Mount Holyoke Summit House.
Rosie and I took a trip over to Shelburne Falls this weekend to take some photos of cool stuff (like, say, a bridge covered in flowers [photo!] and prehistoric glacial potholes [photo!]). I also took 10 frames with the intention of making this somewhat erratic panorama of the falls using Photoshop’s photomerge feature.
It’s a little messier than previous panoramas I’ve done, but that was on purpose. I wanted to create the look of overlaying a bunch of photo prints to create a collage image, inspired by a great Hurricane Katrina retrospective CNN did recently.
The difference is that I didn’t choose the Blend Images Together option, which is why you see such distinct lines between the frames, and I went with Reposition for the layout, whereas in the past I’ve chosen Perspective or Spherical for panoramas.
Anyway, there are a few more images over on my Flickr page.
I took advantage of the nice weather today to study for my French exam shoot some photos and collect some sound at the Wentworth Farm Conservation Area near my house in Amherst, Mass.
The result was the best panorama I’ve put together so far (click to enlarge) and a mediocre Soundslides project.
The panorama is a roughly-150-degree view of the pond near Wentworth Farm. In between shooting photos I grabbed a bunch of natural sound – nothing too interesting: footsteps on grass and mud, a plane overhead, the sound of rushing water – and compiled it into this slideshow.
I must say I don’t like the way Soundslides displays photo sequences taken on the burst setting as much as I have with similar slideshows I’ve made with iMovie, but for stories that really make use of captions and feature the standard three-minute, 18 frame formula, Soundslides is still far superior.
Today I made my second attempt at making a panorama image using Photomerge, this time with tripod and adjustable lens at hand, and the result was a lot better. Not great, or even that good really, but better (click to enlarge image).
This image consists of 17 frames I shot with my Canon Rebel xsi and its standard EF-S 18-55mm zoom lens. It was taken near the Wentworth Farm Conservation Area in Amherst, Mass.
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