Click on the photo at the top of this entry. You’ll get a better view than this tiny version.
The photo shows Butterworth Brook Reservoir. It’s a hundred feet from my car every day as I take the backroads to work. I’ve always enjoyed taking backroads when I could.
Is it on private property? Probably. It is beautiful. To my eye it is pristine. It has been cared for.
17 separate photos are used in this panorama.
The shot covers 195.9°. I know that because Microsoft ICE, the free panorama assembler tells me. ICE was able to automatically stitch and blend the photos into a single picture.
I held the camera vertically, focused on the distant shore then switched the camera to manual everything. Each shot is f/5.6, 1/200 second, iso 100 with a Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 lens zoomed out to 17mm and focused at 361 meters (1184 feet). Since digital media is basically free I generously overlapped the shots.
You don’t need a DSLR like mine to do a pano. Even cellphone cameras work!
Geoff, Please do photo sequence of this spot for all of the deprived (not necessarily depraved) Florida residents who are missing the changing of the seasons….moved from Madison 12 years ago….miss the vibrant colors not the freezing cold. Thanks. BTW has Doppler been fitted for her winter wardrobe yet??
Absolutely beautiful. I’m going to have to try that software with some pictures I took in the Valley of Fire in Nevada. I specifically took some pictures to do ‘stitching’ when I got home. Of course, that was 2 years ago – I think I need to work on them now.