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Re: Colorful Shooting Continues
Robert Bilsland 2008-Sep-23 12:14:00
I knew where I was going to shoot my panorama for this event as I had
visited the location a few weeks ago and shot a test panorama to make
sure I was going to be happy with the result. The location is Great
Witley Church and it is said to be Britain's finest baroque church. I
hoped for bright weather to nicely illuminate the windows, but this
also brought loads of people out to see the church as well.
After getting there and setting up it was now a process of waiting
until the place was quiet enough to shoot. Wanting to shoot HDR the
fewer the people the better. Finally thinking that the place was as
quiet as it was going to get I positioned myself and shot the
panorama. Happy with the results I started packing everything away.
Then something struck me, all of a sudden it was silent. I looked up
to only find that everyone had now left. Quickly I threw everything
together again and shoot another panorama.
After an initial stitch that evening the results look like they are
going to be great. The colours range from white wall, through gold
detail everywhere, to the vibrant colours of the windows, and finally
finishing off with the painted ceiling by Antonio Bellucci.
Bob.
--- In #removed#, "G. Donald Bain" <dbain@...> wrote:
>
> "Color - A World Wide Panorama" is well underway. I see that 49 people
> have already started building their pages on the prep server. New
> participants have been signing up both to this list and getting
> accounts on the server. Welcome to the WWP community!
>
> You may continue shooting until midnight (local time) on Tuesday,
> September 23 (that's tomorrow). Then you have until Friday, October 3
> to log on to the prep server and prepare your page.
>
> I will be watching the prep server for new account requests. Don't
> panic if it takes a few hours for your account to be created - it may
> be the middle of the night for me, or I may be out hiking or otherwise
> engaged.
>
> I got my own photography done last Friday - I made a two day trip
> looking for suitable subjects. Frustration the first day - no fall
> colors anywhere between here and Yosemite. But driving through the
> Mother Lode gold country I had a flash of inspiration - the sight of
> flakes of gold in a miner's pan or sluice is referred to simply as
> "color".
>
> So I detoured to the spot where gold was discovered in 1848, setting
> off the California Gold Rush of 1849. I arrived just as the sun dipped
> behind the ridge, posing a photographic challenge. I shot in pseudo-
> HDR (ISO bracketing) to deal with it - running water and fast moving
> clouds made bracketed shots inappropriate. Plus I was balancing on
> tippy rocks in the river.
>
> Please share your "shooting for Color" stories with the list - don't
> be shy!
>
> Don
>