Cloudless sunset panorama

Here is the matching sunset to go with my moon rise. As you can see, it was a cloudless sunset, which usually means it’s less interesting as you don’t get the amazing patterns in the sky. Lucky the moon was out…

Cheer up, it’s Monday! Time for a moon-rise…

Moon rising

I have been experimenting taking pictures of the moon rising rather than the sun setting, although I actually took this one as the sun was setting. I’ll post the matching sunset next…

Day 11 – Umbrella of lights

dannyboybroderick light umbrella

This photo is a blend of 6 photos arranged as a 3 x 2 panorama and merged using Hugin.

The merging did have a few issues, but gave a nice effect in the end…

Day 10 – 360 degree sunset panorama

Another spectacular pair of sunset panoramas for you today. These sunsets were taken on the same day, with about 10 minutes in between them.

The first, wider one, is a full 360 degree panorama, which allows me to capture both the sunset and the moon. I would have preferred the moon to be a little larger, but you have to take what you can. Made from 6 x 1 portrait photos and fused together using Hugin.

360 degree sunset panorama

The second is a 180 degree panorama taken later, hence the deeper reds. This was blended from only 6 x 1 photos using Hugin once more.

180 degree sunset panorama

I’d be interested in hearing which you guys prefer…

Day 8 – Food extravaganza

I recently took part in an improv blogging day on Don Charisma’s blog, and was given the topic of Men Make Better Chefs than Women. As life is all about balance, I thought I would share these lovely photos of food that my wife has cooked up for me.

I do love eating, and fortunately my wife loves cooking. Must be a match made in heaven…

I have to admit, my wife didn’t make the croissants from scratch. I just thought they looked tasty.

Day 6 – Sun blast panorama

This is another Hugin creation using 5 photos stitched together to make this panorama. The great thing with panoramas like this is each photo can be taken with optimum exposure and then the blending evens the picture out. If this was one photo, the bright sun would overpower everything else in the photo.

Day 5 – Ice Sculptures

I haven’t done a photo gallery since my very first post, so here is my second gallery – a selection of ice sculptures from Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park in London.

These sculptures were larger than life, the swan, for example, must have been 15 feet high. They had to be stored in a super large room kept at -8 centigrade, we don’t quite get the cold temperatures needed to keep these enormous structures in one piece.

Day 3 – Towerama

This is a vertical panorama, or towerama as I like to call it. Taken during a visit to Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park in London.

A simple stitching together of 3 horizontal photos from my Canon camera. Blended together using Hugin once again, although it did make at least 1 mistake – see if you can spot it…

Day 2 – Night panorama

This panorama comes courtesy of 8 images from my Canon camera. Laid out in a 4 x 2 pattern, the final image has been blended together using Hugin. The dimensions come in at 13,800 x 3,500 or a massive 48mp – way too large to upload onto wordpress…

Enjoy…

Sunset Panorama – iPhoneography

I usually take my best shots using my Canon camera, but didn’t have it to hand for this sunset. This is a trial panorama using the iPhone and I especially liked the flare it caught from the setting sun.

Well worth standing in the freezing cold for half an hour…

It’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted on my blog, so to all my readers, a belated Merry Christmas and wishing you all a fantastic New Year.

This panorama is a series of 4 photos which has been blended together using the free tool Hugin.

If you have any questions about how to do this, do leave me a message below. I’m always happy to help.