Cutler Harbor & Little River
Panoramas of Cutler Harbor and Little River in Cutler, Maine on September 9, 2013
Read MoreI took this 200-megapixel panorama of Little River in Cutler, Maine on September 9, 2013, 6:10 – 6:14 PM during “golden hour” before sunset with a manual panning head. I liked the old fishing shack and boats in the shade contrasting with the distant trees lit up by the low sun. Little River Ledge is left of center with a fishing boat beyond it, and Little River Island to the right. Little River Lighthouse is on the opposite side of the island from this angle.
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Camera settings: 200mm, f/8, ISO 200, 1/100 second.
Stitching data: 11 columns x 3 rows, 60° field of view. The finished panorama is 23,550 x 8,475 @ 240dpi or 98” x 35” if printed full size.
Equipment used: Nikon D700, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II, Promote Control, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod w/ leveling base & manual pano/gimbal head. RAW conversion in Lightroom, stitched with PTGui Pro.
This 1.2 gigapixel panorama of Cutler Harbor was taken a little earlier at 4:00 – 4:18 PM with a Panoneed robotic panning head. It is stitched from 198 photos of 33 columns x 6 rows with PTGui Pro and covers just over a 150° view of the harbor from Destiny Bay Road. Hyperfocal distance at 200mm f/13 is 345 feet away and everything from 173 feet to infinity should be sharp, but I also wanted to be able to zoom in to almost 100% in a gigapan which is more critical than most distance calculators strive for. I’m not good at guessing distances, and I didn’t have a laser rangefinder with me either, so I focused on a boat half way between the closest one and the shore and hoped for the best. I took a few quick sample photos to be sure the closest boats were still sharp enough and was pleased with the result. It was a little windy and I couldn’t use a longer shutter speed without the boats blurring from movement. I set a 35% overlap between photos to have a little more to work with for blending waves and moving clouds.
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Camera settings: 200mm, f/13, ISO 200, 1/160 second.
Stitching data: 33 columns x 6 rows. The finished panorama is 62,112 x 19,240 @ 240dpi or 21.5’ x 6.68’ if printed full size.
Equipment used: Nikon D700, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II, Panoneed robotic head, Promote Control, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod w/ leveling base. RAW conversion in Lightroom, stitched with PTGui Pro.
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