Panoramic 1

I have not done a lot of panoramic images but it is quite interesting and can be fun. This is my 3rd attempt at one and I was quite pleased with the results. This particular image is actually 5 different frames stitched together. My first attempt at a panoramic was 13 frames, I did this as a school project and it actually got me an A. It was by far the best subject I have made a panoramic image of. My 2nd attempt was 15-16 frames and it was the hardest I've ever tried. When I did the 13 frame stitch at school I had a lot of help, but when I tried the next one 2 years later I was all by myself and I was never happy with it. I got some new stitching software a while ago and I tried the 16 frames again and I had good success, needless to say I was pleased. The image that I have shown in this post is the smallest stitch I have made but it isn't easy with any stitch. Half of the work is done in camera and the other half is done in computer. If you make a mistake at either end the results are not good. If you mess up in camera you will likely not achieve success at all. I have wanted to do another panoramic image but I am not sure what I want to shoot, I guess I need to think about it a bit and come up with a good subject. Then I need to make myself go out and do it.

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Dilapidated

I love old abandoned buildings, they are my favorite place to shoot. I know I say that about a lot of different things or places, but I really mean it about old buildings. I love to go into a building that hasn't been occupied in years and see what was left behind. It is like a history lesson in a way. I guess it could be considered rudimentary archeology, well not quite but it is the closet I'll ever come to archeology in my lifetime. This all seems so dejavu to me, I think if you look in my archives you will probably find another post where I talked about abandoned or dilapidated buildings. Yesterday was my 50th post so I can't remember exactly what I have and have not written about in the past posts. The image that I am showing you in this post is one that I have on my stock photography website. It happens to be the one image that has received the most comments of all of my stock images, so I thought I would share it with my loyal readers.



This image was taken in a building not too far from where I live, no it isn't one from the campus where I live. This building is a part of a local University not far from where I live. I noticed it many years ago and I had often wondered what they were going to do with it. I knew that I would eventually get into the building and have a look. One day a few years later I drove by the building again, I had forgotten about it. I was surprised to see that it was still sitting empty, I knew that I needed to get in and shoot it before they demolished it. I have missed many opportunities to shoot in old buildings by procrastinating and when I decided to finally do it, the buildings were gone or being renovated. For example, the town that I grew up in had an orphanage that sat on about 250 acres of land. On the edge of their property sat an old water tank, it was very cool and would have made a great photographic subject. I had wanted to photograph it for years but I never felt like there was any hurry, I mean where was it going to go? It was always there and I thought it would always be there, I was wrong. In 2004 I decided it was time for me to go and shoot the water tank, when I got there it was gone. The orphanage had been closed for a number of years and the property had been sold. The new property owners tore the water tank down to make way for a retirement village. That is just one of too many missed opportunities that I could tell you about. I have many success stories that I can share as well, but a missed opportunity like that can never be had again. Well I need to get this post finished I still have to get a message to my good friend Todd Kuhns in South Carolina. Hey Todd there's your link.

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