iPhone panoramas.
Trying to capture the moving clouds, the changing water and rich colors. St. George Island, Florida.
When you stand alone on the beach, look out to the horizon and listen to the rhythmic waves lap and splash, lap and splash you are filled with awe snd reflection.
The iphone camera (or any camera for that matter) cannot truly capture what you see, hear and feel.
Holiday travel at peak? Not yet.
That will be this coming Wednesday.
But when the trains for Boston were announced (as I stood under the departure boards) I thought I might get run over by the rush of humanity.
Getting to their platform, getting to their train home. Rush rush rush.
Sunday, late afternoon, New York City.
Just the tips of the top of the PPG building, reminded me of a sandcastle at the beach.
And up over the hill, the rest of the skyline.
You can see the barge lane in the middle of the icy Monongahela River. Don’t let the blue sky fool you, it was really cold.
A panorama taken with the Sony Mirrorless camera. First time I used this feature.
This was actually the first shot Monday afternoon as I pulled out of the school lot.
First time the sun had shown itself in awhile.
Still playing around with the panorama option on the iPhone to capture the pool at night.
The weather has cooled down considerably so when you get out of the water, and the air hits you, it feels like fall. Brrrr. Last day of July.
Four Canon Digital SLR cameras shooting about 900 frames an hour ( with the kit lenses) mounted on gigapans and mounted on a long panel, attached to a tripod with a super duper car type battery-
and the results will make up a 10,000 frames which will be combined in a time lapse video. We will be able to see it at some point!
-and here is the story how this came to be on the blog today.
After school I was hightailing it up to Mount Washington to do a shoot for an engaged couple. On the way up the mountain at the top, I saw some camera equipment and a huge tripod. The guy manning it started to wave to me and then jog to keep up with my car as I slowed to a red light atop Grandview Ave. It was a former teacher of mine, Dror Yaron, now at Carnegie Mellon. I had taken one of his early Gigapan classes at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. {Here is the link to one of the gigapans I shot in 2008.}
I said , “I have to go shoot an engaged couple at the Duquesne Incline platform”, and he said, “Stop back here after that.”
As it turned out the couple couldn’t make it and so I parked close to the spot Dror was and walked down the sidewalk of McArdle Roadway, high above the Monongahela River.
In a few minutes the Senior Systems Scientist Randy Sargent and another CMU Robotics team member Anne Wright (forgive me Anne I didn’t get your title but remembered the “e”) arrived on the scene.
Randy had been there since 5 AM and planned to shoot until 11 PM. Oh my.
It was really cold, too. They were taking turns with the equipment. Later on I returned at 10 during the Steelers game just to document the commitment to the project. Randy had donned the ski gloves at that point.
I asked Randy about what he wanted to do when he was a child and he said he always liked to build things. EVERYTHING. Not just lego but pieces of scrap lumber from construction sites. I find that interesting how people are guided on a path to their current work.
Sunset was at 4:53 PM on Thursday the 8th of December.
Here is the link to the site to learn more about the projects and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
