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Technical Trials
Oct. 8th, 2005 10:18 amNote to self: Great ideas always need a trial run.
Some time ago I saw in a photography book a fantastic panorama along the Thames that was shot across the course of a day. The left hand side of the picture was at night, then as the viewer journeyed along the river the time of day changed too.
What a jolly good idea I thought - take a series of pictures making a panorama in time and space. So I bounced out of bed at 5:40 this morning, collected moral support on the way through South Birmingham and arrived at the Lickey Hills in the dark. Over the course of an hour I took about a dozen shots of South Birmingham as the light improved.
With only a couple of minor problems... Firstly it was so cloudy there wasn't really a dawn to speak of (despite the forecast being slightly more optimistic); secondly the position wasn't very good (which I knew); finally my sensor is very grubby - this isn't relevant at f1.4/1.8/2.8, but at f22 it was very noticeable.
So the results are, pretty much, rubbish :-)
However - I refuse to be daunted. I have some other ideas and will come back to this one in the future.
In the meantime, here's a photo of a camera not-doing-very-much-that's-any-good...
To cheer myself up, I'm off into town to see Serenity.
Some time ago I saw in a photography book a fantastic panorama along the Thames that was shot across the course of a day. The left hand side of the picture was at night, then as the viewer journeyed along the river the time of day changed too.
What a jolly good idea I thought - take a series of pictures making a panorama in time and space. So I bounced out of bed at 5:40 this morning, collected moral support on the way through South Birmingham and arrived at the Lickey Hills in the dark. Over the course of an hour I took about a dozen shots of South Birmingham as the light improved.
With only a couple of minor problems... Firstly it was so cloudy there wasn't really a dawn to speak of (despite the forecast being slightly more optimistic); secondly the position wasn't very good (which I knew); finally my sensor is very grubby - this isn't relevant at f1.4/1.8/2.8, but at f22 it was very noticeable.
So the results are, pretty much, rubbish :-)
However - I refuse to be daunted. I have some other ideas and will come back to this one in the future.
In the meantime, here's a photo of a camera not-doing-very-much-that's-any-good...
To cheer myself up, I'm off into town to see Serenity.
