This is the beach at Bracy Cove on Mount Desert Island in Maine on September 19, 2015, 18:55 – 19:14, through the end of civil twilight and beginning of nautical twilight. The tide was going out so the rocks and seaweed were all still wet. The water flowing down the sand left hundreds of interesting channels and patterns. I selectively focused on a couple of the more interesting pebbles and a ribbon of seaweed in the sand and let the rest of the foreground and background blur out for a “bokehrama” effect, to give a more three dimensional feel to the image.
Camera settings: 400mm, f/8, ISO 31, 2 seconds.
Stitching data: 5 rows of 17 images.
Equipment used: Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II, Nikon TC-20E III 2x teleconverter, Panoneed robotic panning head, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod & leveling base. Edited with Lightroom, aligned with AutoPano Giga, and manually blended via masks in Photoshop.
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| Date & Time | September 19, 2015: 6:55pm |
| Location | Seal Harbor, Maine |
| Coordinates | 44.293335, -68.254061 |
| Camera | Nikon D810 |
| Megapixels per Exposure | 36.3 |
| Lens | Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II |
| Focal Length | 400 |
| Aperture | 8 |
| Shutter Speed | 2 sec |
| ISO | 31 |
| Number of Exposures | 85 |
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| Total Pixels | 1,640,328,455 |
| Horizontal Pixels | 60,607 |
| Vertical Pixels | 27,065 |
| Aspect Ratio | 1 : 2.24 |
| File Size | 9,370 MB |
| Width @ 300ppi (perfect) | 16.84 feet |
| Height @ 300ppi | 7.52 feet |
| Width @ 150ppi (near-perfect) | 33.67 feet |
| Height @ 150ppi | 15.04 feet |
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