photoartflightGreat Blue Heron 3 Shot Panorama
Posted on November 12, 2015
This Great Blue Heron was fishing in the Shearness Pool at the Bombay Hook NWR. Three shot panorama assembled in Photoshop. It was posing for a few minutes before going back to finding a meal. It finally caught a fish on the far side of the Shearness Pool.
Brigantine Birdscape Panorama
Posted on September 3, 2015
Sometimes I like to shoot what I call a “Birdscape”. Basically a photo to show the birds in their environment and how they act together or with other birds. With some birds it is fun to see how they act in groups or with other types. It can also give you some interesting images. Here I am just showing stander behaviors. Sometimes it adds interest or helps show where you might look for them. Especially the Night Herons. The Featured Image is a 4 shot panorama, shot handheld, aligned and assembled in Photoshop. The rest are single shots showing a Great Egret working the shoreline for a meal, then giving up. But they show the bird in their surroundings.
Blue Dasher Panorama
Posted on August 3, 2015
This Blue Dasher flew in where I was setup for photographing Dragonflies. This is a 5 image panorama blend with overlaps. The Blue dasher is only about 1.5″ long so not to scare him off, I was using a 300mm lens with a 1.4X teleconverter with multiple extension tubes so I had ample working distance. I assembled the images in Photoshop. I got many images as the Blue Dashers were quite abundant in the area.
Muskrat Swimby Panorama
Posted on May 31, 2015
I was at a local Nature Preserve looking for Dragonflies, when a Muskrat swam by where I was setup. I had a 400mm lens on so I could not get the whole muskrat in one shot. I quickly shot 3 shots to make a panorama to get the tail in. I was also working to get the water wake to be symmetrical so the water wake lined up as closely as possible.
Muskrat Single Image with tail under water
Bleeding Heart Vertical Panorama
Posted on May 27, 2015
I photographed this Bleeding Heart with 3 vertical, handheld shots. Then combined them in Photoshop for the final composition. Instead of backing up to frame the shot to fit everything in, then cropping, I chose to keep more detail by shooting this as a vertical panorama.
Wisteria Vertical Panorama from Longwood Gardens
Posted on May 10, 2015
We went to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. There is 1,077 acres of Outdoor Gardens, a 4 acre Conservatory and 86 acres of a meadow garden, so there is plenty to see and photograph. We went mainly for the Meadow Garden and the Outdoor Gardens. The Outdoor Gardens were spectacular and the Meadow Garden is not blooming yet, but still fun to wander around and see what we could find. On the way to the Meadow Garden we went past this Wisteria climbing on one of the buildings. I shot a 4 shot handheld pano and combined it in Photoshop.
Brigantine Sunrise
Posted on April 17, 2015
We got up early last weekend to try to get an interesting sunrise at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. There was a heavy cloud cover, but still looked interesting, even though it was not as colorful as we had hoped. The featured image is a 6 shot 12mm panorama combined in Photoshop. The other images are from 12mm to 24mm,
Brigantine Snow Geese Landscape Panorama
Posted on January 1, 2015
This is a 24 shot panorama of a section of the landscape showing the large flock of Snow Geese at the Refuge. They continued on the right but were behind the grasses so continuing the panorama did not work, so I just used this 24 shot section. This was shot with a 400mm lens with a 1.4X teleconverter, assembled in photoshop.
Great Blue Heron Vertical Panorama
Posted on December 31, 2014
Quite often when I am out shooting, I come across a subject that is too close or too large a view for the lens I am carrying. So I try a 2 or 3 shot panorama (or even more exposures). Either vertical or horizontal format, whichever fits the subject. I assemble them in photoshop, sometimes doing them manually or with Photoshop’s Auto Align & Auto Blend features. It is fun to see what you can come up with plus you can print them quite large.
Brigantine NWR Panorama Telephoto Sunrise
Posted on August 30, 2014
We took Friday off and went to the Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, Brigantine Division in Oceanville, NJ. We arrived before sunrise to be ready to photograph. I wanted to capture the pre-sunrise or Dawn along with the Sunrise, hopefully with birds flying through it. Sometimes Dawn is more interesting than the actual Sunrise. I was trying for a multi-shot vertical panorama Sunrise with a long lens to capture mainly the sky without too much foreground. The feature image is a 5 shot vertical panorama shot with a 400mm lens. I waited for the sun to be behind the clouds because I was using a Canon 400mm DO Lens (Diffractive Optics) which will flare when pointed at the sun. Then I concentrated on single shot images with the 400mm and adding in some with 17mm through 105 using multiple lenses.These will be posted later. Warning! Do not look directly into the sun, especially with a telephoto lens. You can and will damage your eyes! I used live view or focused off to the side then estimated where I should aim the camera. On the panorama, I just shot to one side and moved to the other side, not looking through the viewfinder.
Grasses lit by Sunrise 400mm, handheld, f/7.1, 1/640 sec, -0.33 exposure comp, ISO 800
High Flight of Egrets in Sunrise
Dawn, pre-sunrise, skyscape
Flight of Egrets at Dawn
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