New England – Panoramas – Part 1

I was doing a check on the number of pictures and amount of video taken during the Boston trip; and I have the final figures: 4,185 images on the D300, 945 images on the E-PL1 and about 6 hours of HD video. All totaled in, it’s a whopping 81 GB of static and moving imagery to process!

Unlike last December’s Kumamoto trip though, I didn’t try creating nearly as many HDR compositions this time. Instead, I did a huge number of panorama compositions – all 106 of them – each comprising between 2 to 11 images. Some of them turned out great, others not so from a host of problems, including gloomy weather, bad lighting, inability of CS4 to process them, and most commonly, too much lens distortion.

I’ll be blogging about these panoramas in a series of compositions starting with the first: a view of the Boston skyline from Charles River. Several of these were taken from MIT’s side of the river, and others along either Harvard or Longfellow bridges.

Here’s a picture showing the general perspective from MIT:

The first panorama below was composed in really gloomy weather, despite it being mid-morning. This one’s a full 180 degree sweep:

The second and third panoramas here were composed in much better weather at late afternoon:

The next two panoramas were composed late in the stay; during the third week when the sun finally broke through the thick cloud layers of the first two weeks, and Boston finally saw the kind of glorious summer that’s just perfect for photography. Both were taken in the early afternoon from Harvard bridge. The second of the two panoramas is a full 180 degree sweep.

And the last panorama was taken just before I left Boston, and a different point of view as seen from Longfellow bridge. A single frame perspective was posted earlier on here.

Larger versions of the panorama compositions are in the Flickr album here.:)