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Last Dawn 2009

Same vista as before - sunrise Lake Illawarra dawn December 31 2009.

19 shot pano ;-)

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For those who were wondering (you might not have been) here's how I created this image:
Hey Skyfisher (love the name) here's the list of 'special' equipment I use to create this image:

a) iPhone with alarm clock (seriously not kidding - it was a 5:20am get up)

b) Manfrotto190xProB tripod with an 804R head. The tripod is excellent - light enough to carry and solid enough to.. hold everything still ;-) The head is great - NOT a ball and the difference is that it's easy to pan without coming off axis - although super expensive ballheads offer this - not in my price range ;-)

c) CameraD40x - nothing special here at any time - other than good res, and easy to control. All shot on FINE and Large in JPEG.

d) Filters. I use Cokin Grad ND filters. In this case 121s and 121m on an ultrawide "P" holder. I actually BluTac the second filter on the front of the holder to avoid vignetting on the lens.

e) Sigma 10-20mm lens. Impossible to overstate how awesome this lens is. It is flat out awesome and the field of view is the reason most of these shots look so good.

f) Technique in the field. Panning to create a pano I shoot in vertical lots of the time to increase the 'height' of the image. I move in very small increments when shooting the pan. In this case I think it was 15 or so shots to cover the 180 degrees.

g) Technique at the desk. I use Photoshop's photomerge feature. It is AMAZING how good it is at putting it all together. But then the real work starts. Lens distortion to bring in the sides, layers, curves, burning, dodging, selective colour saturation, cloning etc. It's really quite a bit of work and the initial file created out of photoshop before I combine the layers is almost 900Mb ;-)

h) Oh, forgot to mention.. iPhone with weather stats and updates.. I use this it pick the morning that I think is most likely to produce what I'm looking for.. still, clouds, but not totally over cast..

And that's about it ;-0

Taken on: December 31, 2009

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Camera: Nikon D40X, f/13.0, 1/4 sec, 10mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D40X
Aperture:	f/13.0
Exposure Time:	0.25 sec (1/4)
Focal Length:	10mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-2/3 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
Light Source:	Cloudy
Color Space:	Unknown (-1)
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
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