Davidsons Mill Pond Park Panoramas

Posted on November 4, 2023

We have quite a few Parks by us but our Favorites are Davidson Mill Pond Park & Plainsboro Preserve. Many times we just like to get a nice walk so I just use my iPhone 11 Pro to capture images that look interesting instead of carrying a lot of camera gear. There are also a lot of beavers in this Park so you often see trees that have been “chewed” down laying on the ground. Also you see lots of Beaver Lodges in the water areas. In this post I am posting Multi-Image Panoramas taken with the iPhone 11 Pro. I do not use the “Panorama” mode because it distorts the Pano Images on the beginning & ends too much. I get better “Results” taking a Series of Individual Images and using Photoshop to automatically combine them. I have found that using more overlapping of the images works better than less overlapping of the iPhone images. The Featured Image is 12 Individual Images taken with the iP11 Pro with the 6mm lens. I loaded all the images into one Layered Photoshop File. Then Aligned & Blended them in Photoshop automatically by loading them into a layered Photoshop File & letting Photoshop do all the work of aligning & blending.

Davidsons Mill Lake, IP11 Pro, 7 Image Panorama, 1.5mm lens, Automatically Aligned & Blended in Photoshop

Davidsons Mill Lake, IP11 Pro,6 Image Panorama,6mm lens, Aligned & Blended in Photoshop

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Calico Pennant Dragonflies @ Davidsons Mill Pond Park

Posted on July 23, 2023

We went for a walk at Davidsons Mill Pond Park to try to find some interesting Dragonflies to photograph. I found quite a few, but most of them were Female Calico Pennant Dragonflies and a few male Pondhawks . The Calico Pennants were in the fields and the Pondhawks were by the upper pond. I was using a Canon 7D with a Canon 300mm lens with a 1.4x teleconverter so with the teleconverter and the 1.6X crop of the 7D, I was at about 672mm if I was using a full frame camera. Some of the images taken were a series of images with different focus points for a controlled focus to have a softer background. I also softened some of the backgrounds on single images for a more “pleasing background” when posting.