PICTARS! Chicago Skyline Panoramas!

[fuzzybabybunny]

Rebel XT + Sigma 30mm f/1.4 for the night shot and Canon 50mm f/1.8 mkII for the morning shot.

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The Chicago skyline at night viewed from the north.

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The Chicago Skyline in the morning, viewed from the south beside the Adler Planetarium. The building to the left with a lot of windows is the Shedd Aquarium's Oceanarium.

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For the above picture, here is a snapshot of my workspace:

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/80683465-O.jpg

Note the Windows Explorer window on the right:

Each "Chicago Morning Pano000X.tif" is a part of the final file, 9 files at 870MB each that Enblend had to blend together.

The "Chicago Morning Pano.tif" was the original composite file that I worked on. Working on a 870MB file is SLOWWWWW.

The final file is the 355MB TIFF, and the image I uploaded as the "Large Size" image is the 2.5MB version.

The original, uncompressed TIF file is a whopping 20738x2187, or 45.35 megapixels.
The night shot is a little smaller at 13504x2276, or 30.74 megapixels.

 

[JM Aggie08]

nice pics. what camera you using?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: JM Aggie08
nice pics. what camera you using?

Rebel XT + Sigma 30mm f/1.4 for the night shot and Canon 50mm f/1.8 mkII for the morning shot.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Bump for the morning!

 

[James3shin]

i made the night pic my desktop, but it didn't fit very well. Too nice not to use though.

 

[Acanthus]

The fact that i have been in the exact places you were standing adds some nostalgic value to the pics for me. Thanks a lot for posting these!

:thumbsup:

 

[ViviTheMage]

wow! love the shots...ill be visiting chicago before the end of the summer.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: James3shin
i made the night pic my desktop, but it didn't fit very well. Too nice not to use though.

Yeah, none of my landscapes fit well on desktops. Feel free to crop it though!

 

[Albis]

wow amazing pictures

someday i gotta learn how to take good pictures like this

 

[Steve]

Your desktop is 2880x1200? How's that?

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: sm8000
Your desktop is 2880x1200? How's that?

Dual 2405FPWs would cover it.

 

[Steve]

Um, no. I have a 2405. It's 1920x1200.

 

[glen]

Let em ask what I am sure is a dumb question:
How did you take that picture?
How many degrees around is it?
Did you set some feature - then take multiple shots, and then stich them together on a pc?

 

[Scarpozzi]

Nice pictars. I'm hoping to take my baby to Chicago soon...

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Excellent photos. Kinda makes me homesick.

 

[cmdavid]

those pictures would make some nice posters...

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Thanks for the love!

Originally posted by: glen
Let em ask what I am sure is a dumb question:
How did you take that picture?
How many degrees around is it?
Did you set some feature - then take multiple shots, and then stich them together on a pc?

Nah, it's not a dumb question. There are a lot of technical things about panorama shooting and especially stitching that a lot of people don't know.

1. Set up camera on tripod.
2. Meter for an average area of your photo.
ex. For the morning shot, the right is the brightest and the left is the darkest, so I metered for the middle, making sure I could keep details in the brighter and darker parts of the image.
3. Shoot each part of the panorama with the same exposure values as the average, making sure there's decent overlap between them.
ex. The average metered value requires ISO100, f/8, and 1/200 shutter speed. Shoot each of your pictures at this setting to minimize brightness and color differences between the pictures when you go to stitch them together.
4. Once all the pics are shot, download to computer, do the same RAW editing for each picture so as to retain the same color and brightness values, save as TIFF, and stitch together using software. I personally use Hugin, PTAssembler, and Enblend.
5. Post process in Photoshop.

I don't remember how many degrees it is, and I didn't record it anywhere . I'm guessing the night shot was around 110 degrees and the morning shot was around 150 degrees.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

And a last bump for the evening people.

 

[Goosemaster]

I remember goign to the pier, the sears tower, the hard rock, and the aquarium....

nice town

 

[MDE]

My Dad works in the building right smack in the middle of the morning pic (Blue Cross Blue Shield building, next to the tall white building). Could you do a Millennium Park pic?

 

[sygyzy]

I don't get the subtitle.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: MDE
My Dad works in the building right smack in the middle of the morning pic (Blue Cross Blue Shield building, next to the tall white building). Could you do a Millennium Park pic?

I wish I could, but unfortunately the picture was a travel shot for me. I live pretty far from Chicago

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
I don't get the subtitle.

It's just a random mix of parts of the more popular topics here on ATOT.

 

[E equals MC2]

JEsus christ, the pics have more crisp detail than my own eyes in real life... lol.

 

[bigfil]

nice pics gj
now to get another 2405 for pano view hehe