Horse Track Panorama

cornetlord · Oct 28, 2012

I'm really working on getting crisp evening pictures.

Comments welcome!

Derrel · Oct 28, 2012

Not too bad dude!!!! I think maybe going for more of the lights and less grass would also be an option. I bet this looks pretty good when seen large!!! Judging by how good it looks down-rezzed to only 293 k I bet it's pretty awesome at full-rez!

Mot · Oct 28, 2012

I agree with Derrel, point the camera up a bit. I'd like to see the tops of all the lights. Cloning out the flare would also reduce distractions. Other than that, a cool picture! I like the way the floodlights create shaped beams.

cornetlord · Oct 28, 2012

I totally agree with you but here is the deal...I am a paramedic and was working the races that night....I had no tripod and was using a wooden fence as my tripod...it was nighttime and I wanted to shoot at ISO 100...So i couldn't hold the camera...I used the 2 second self timer delay as to avoid any movement on the camera....I will be taking my tripod up next time for sure but the season is over and I won't be able to until next spring

How does this look.

The full image is 5 shots stitched together.. The detail is so good that with the fullsized images you can zoom in and count the people in the club house across the track.

480sparky · Oct 28, 2012

Depending on your software, aiming the camera up may cause excessive keystoning the software has problems with.

This is why I shoot in portrait orientation.... this allows me to keep the horizon level and in the center of each frame. Then I can crop out what I don't want in the final stitch.

jamesbjenkins · Oct 28, 2012

Another vote here for a comp with more sky/lights and less grass.

cornetlord · Oct 28, 2012

I can only imagine if I had shot this in portrait how large the finished file would have been. I think my computer would have exploded just trying to stitch that together. I really like shooting panoramas in portrait because it gives me so much more to work with and this would have been such a better image. It was a spur of the moment shot and it isn't the best thats for sure.... Any tips for color or light adjustments or does it work like this?