So, I posted some photos from Pittsburgh after all
At the end of November I said none of my photos from Pittsburgh were “worthy of publishing” to my photolog. Well, I decided to just not care so much and publish them anyways - partly because I want to share them - and partly because I need to be a little less paranoid about that sort of thing.
A panorama of a foggy Downtown Pittsburgh from the top of Mt. Washington.
There are about seven photos that I managed to get out. I had to play with them in Photoshop a little to make me a little happier about them, which I know a lot of people have no trouble with but in general I only do minimal post processing.
I believe a few of the photos had much higher potential if 1) I knew what I was doing with a camera. I suppose that the lessons Eliza and I are planning to take will come in handy with this one. 2) I had a better camera when I was taking the photos.
The photos from Pittsburgh were taken with a Canon S2IS. Surely not the worst camera available, but definitely not as nice as our Canon Digital Rebel XTi. Somehow everything is inferior to it now - though I do enjoy the limitations set forth by my iPhone.
Hope someone likes them.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Enjoy the limitations of the iPhone? I find myself unable to use it after being spoilt by the CDR XTi d-:
December 18th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Colin,
Here’s a trick… Buy the fanciest gear that you can afford, Heck buy stuff you *can’t* afford on credit, then all the photos you ever make will rock! (ah, just kidding)
Seriously, this is not bad at all… I like the leading lines of the railing …it helps give prospective as well. When doing multiple takes to stitch together… Just make sure the settings are the same. Put the camera on Manual…meter it, then use the same exposure as you pan across.
Keep photographing and keep posting.
~Adam Nollmeyer
December 19th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Adam: Great advice. I’ve been told to keep the settings the same when doing panoramas a few times - and I just never seem to remember. I will from now on.
Oh, and I hope you take a look at my past photos in my photolog - I would love your feedback on any of them you think you like/dislike.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
Testing.