Photography blog: 19.6.09
It's over eight years since I saw my brother Michael and last week we drove up to his Crofter's cottage in Ellon, which is 12 miles north of Aberdeen.
Quite a drive I can tell you!
He is so lucky. His house is in the middle of a field on a hill that overlooks the pretty village of Ellon.
Just 450 rent gets him a piece of Scottish paradise. It was great to see him and his partner Rachel again.
We only stayed there for a few days but on one of the days we drove 135 miles to Falkirk to see the Falkirk Wheel, which isn't a wheel as such but a piece of genius technical engineering that moves barges etc from one canal to the other.
http://www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/about/history.html
I took loads of photos but decided that I couldn't do it justice without getting the whole scene in.
So I planned a panoramic photograph.
You can get tons of detail into a panoramic photograph and it gives a great idea of the surrounding area.
You can be VERY precise about a panorama or you can, like me, just hand hold your Fuji SLR and hope for the best, with a few provisos:-
First of all, if you can with your camera, find the brightest area of the panorama and lock your exposure.
I started my first photo on the far right hand side but it you don't have to, you can start from the left.
When you are framing the first photo take a note of an object about 2/3rds to the left of the scene.
Press the shutter. Now pan carefully across keeping the 'spotted' object in your eye and place it about about 1/3rd of the in from the right so that when you look at your photos afterwards you have about a 1/3rd overlap on each photo.
Carry on panning to the left overlapping each photo by a third till you finish your view.
If you have a grid display on your camera (it looks like a noughts and crosses board) this may help you keep the horizon straight.
When I got home I used the software that came with my Canon G9 (this camera has a panorama feature built in if you wanted to use it) and it did a brilliant job of joining all my photos into a one long image.
If you don't have any software it's possible to merge them in photoshop or paint shop pro by hand but it's quite difficult.
There are however, plenty of programs you can download from the internet if you do a search.
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