awfulsteelmelon
Fly by (510nm IR pano)
Alright, this is a recent one, from the last heat period, did some hiking (with my tripod + camera on my shoulder) and 'sampling', meaning taking my panos in currently all (to me) available wavelengths for future development (when I move my new system out of the VM one day).
Amongst other things, this is quite a popular place for paragliding resp. flying all sorts of weird things, due to the features present (infrastructure, lots of altitude difference (~1400m), thermal lift, etc.). So there is a 'silent airport' nearby, a spot where many glider pilots take off during the day, so it's easy and fun to watch them start and soar through the sky. I was just done setting up my gear and was in the middle of the first pano, which is usually 510nm, when I noticed the tandem glider coming right at me (they don't make any noise). They came pretty close, but this is wide, 24mm!, made a left turn into the wind and then I snapped along as they fit nicely into the frames / positions of my pano head. Even thought they sometimes swirl around there like bees around a honey pot, it's still a happy accident to get one close and right in front an ultra wide lens on a pre-arranged panorama setup! Would have been cool to get even more shots, there is a proper chunk of panorama left on the left side, but that's just cocky; so I cropped in order to make the 'serial glider' bigger / visible yet retain some of the airi- and openness of the place.
Some light sun ray showed up as well, didn't expect that since I could not see them with the naked eye. Will be interesting to see, if they show up more clearly with longer wavelength? Anyway, due to this serendipity (I did a second one; same filter but without the glider) and the fact that I can do 510nm in my old productive system, I had to develop it, and here it is.
Source for this is a 8 piece panorama, 22720 x 5832px, ~132,5MP, which I cropped to a still panoramic format with 12456 x 5832px, ~72,6MP.
Nikon D3300 (APS-C / DX, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
heliopan SH-PMC deep yellow 4x (15, G) filter
ISO100, 24mm, f/8, 1/640sec
(thus 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)
Fly by (510nm IR pano)
Alright, this is a recent one, from the last heat period, did some hiking (with my tripod + camera on my shoulder) and 'sampling', meaning taking my panos in currently all (to me) available wavelengths for future development (when I move my new system out of the VM one day).
Amongst other things, this is quite a popular place for paragliding resp. flying all sorts of weird things, due to the features present (infrastructure, lots of altitude difference (~1400m), thermal lift, etc.). So there is a 'silent airport' nearby, a spot where many glider pilots take off during the day, so it's easy and fun to watch them start and soar through the sky. I was just done setting up my gear and was in the middle of the first pano, which is usually 510nm, when I noticed the tandem glider coming right at me (they don't make any noise). They came pretty close, but this is wide, 24mm!, made a left turn into the wind and then I snapped along as they fit nicely into the frames / positions of my pano head. Even thought they sometimes swirl around there like bees around a honey pot, it's still a happy accident to get one close and right in front an ultra wide lens on a pre-arranged panorama setup! Would have been cool to get even more shots, there is a proper chunk of panorama left on the left side, but that's just cocky; so I cropped in order to make the 'serial glider' bigger / visible yet retain some of the airi- and openness of the place.
Some light sun ray showed up as well, didn't expect that since I could not see them with the naked eye. Will be interesting to see, if they show up more clearly with longer wavelength? Anyway, due to this serendipity (I did a second one; same filter but without the glider) and the fact that I can do 510nm in my old productive system, I had to develop it, and here it is.
Source for this is a 8 piece panorama, 22720 x 5832px, ~132,5MP, which I cropped to a still panoramic format with 12456 x 5832px, ~72,6MP.
Nikon D3300 (APS-C / DX, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
heliopan SH-PMC deep yellow 4x (15, G) filter
ISO100, 24mm, f/8, 1/640sec
(thus 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)