Mississippi River Valley panorama

very nice...beautiful place to camp.

 

Ken,

We are enjoying your panorama images. They are a personal interest of mine as well. I had a pan head with me at Wyalusing SP on our 550 TD pickup trip a month ago but the rain and the excitement of the new trailer kept it packed away. If you don't mind I would be interested in a few details, such as tripod arrangement (or handheld?), camera/lens, and what you are using to do the stitching.

 

Ken,

Wow. Impressive panorama. I do get to Chicago now and then so the view is familiar although it has never looked this good. Michigan Ave on the left edge, on Wacker looking north, I think. My favorite casual Chicago restaurant is only a few blocks away, Frontera Grill, at Clark and Illinois.

I have a Nikon D90 with the 18-200 VR Nikkor zoom but haven't had time for any pans since I got it. I do have an old Kaiden Kiwi panoramic head that I got for an earlier camera so the geometry doesn't quite match the zoom lens but for landscapes it will be fine. I had been using PanaVue ImageAssembler for quite a long time but recently moved up to a big dual-quad-core Mac desktop and PanaVue is Windows only. I have been playing around with using Lightroom/Photoshop but prefer an application devoted to stitching. I see that PTgui has a Mac OS X version so I'll have to take closer look at it.

A blank wall would look pretty good if you filled the top half with a four foot long version of your Chicago skyline above your Mississippi River Valley panorama.

 

Ken,

I don't have any pans up behind a link at this point. I'm a CIO at a small University which is a 25/8/366 job these days, especially these days. Maybe I'll have a chance to put something up later this summer. The Kaiden head I have is one of their less expensive ones and I've had it a long time. I just took a look at some of their last models and they are incredibly expensive.

I did look at your very interesting gallery. We do seem to have some similarities in taste for particular kinds of images. I do put a daily image of mine up on the home page of our campus web portal, an image that I have always taken recently, somewhere on our small campus, and many of your images would fit right in (except for your exotic locations). I do that my photography (as well as our cycling) benefits from our use of our Camp-Inn in the future.