Monday, January 25, 2010

A first for me......

Ok so I decided to change the name of my blog cause I am totally focused on doing my own thing, and also because it's my watermark..... But anyways this is a first ever post for me. I have been trying to get Photoshop for a while now but all of the copies have failed and have not worked. I recently discovered that one of my family's old computers has a version of photoshop 6 on it. I just started using it and am actually proud of some of the work i have done so far.....

I have always wanted to make a panorama of something. I got the motivation from Amos and a couple of his panoramas which are really beautiful. So I have looked through some of my sets of pictures I have taken recently and have found some that worked just perfectly. I took them thinking that some day I might be able to make something of them.

Here are the ones that I made today, they aren't perfect, but of course it was my first time trying all of this out and getting the hang of it. Also I didn't process the photos in Lightroom first so some of the colors are kinda wacko and don't go together, but they still look okay......



I used 4 shots for this one, 15 sec exposure f5.6 at iso 200. Besides the middle shot it looks pretty good. The Bay Bridge and San Francisco.



I used 7 shots for this one, you can see some of the lines where I put them together, not really sure how to get rid of those. Lake Tahoe from the top of Heavenly.




I used two shots for this one. Looking down into the American River from the top of Echo Summit.



These are two different pictures of the same thing accept the traffic lights are different colors. Stateline at Lake Tahoe, Harvey's casino on the left with purple lights



Well that is what I have so far, if anybody has advice or comments please let me know cause I need all the help I can get. I am just getting started with this and there will be many more to come.


If you get all the pictures together the right way panoramas are amazing.


-Kellan



3 comments:

  1. These images have a lot of potential, but you have to be sure every exposure is exactly the same and stitch them together before you do any processing. Sometimes, with more entry level dslr's, they naturally vignette with sucks because you'll always get seams when you're trying to stitch panoramas. Removing the lens hood, if there's one on it may help. Great long exposures, though.

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  2. Also, your links are broken. The images won't enlarge.

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  3. i love these. like especially the golden gate bridge one is phenomenal. i use a holga sometimes when im goofing off and a lot of them come off with more intense colors and everything it just reminded me of that. i actually just took up 2 rolls of film in hawaii so im excited to get them back, but ive done a little before which i am in love with, though the saturation on most was nothing special.

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