
I photographed this small wharf at Thurston’s Lobster Pound in Bernard, Maine on September 12, 2016, 17:56, while teaching a panorama workshop. The wharf was in shade while the sun was hitting the boats in Bass Harbor in the background.
I wanted a selective focus on the buoys and ropes with the lobster traps and harbor providing a blurry backdrop and plenty of negative space on the wharf in front of the pile of buoys to blur as well, like a tilt/shift lens effect.
It’s about a 48mm field of view, so I could have shot it with a 45mm f/2.8 tilt/shift lens, but I didn’t have one with me. Instead, I used my 70-200mm f/2.8 at 200mm, f/2.8, ISO 64, 1/160, focused on the buoy I wanted to be the sharpest, chose the corners of my scene, and shot a bokehrama of 7 columns and 6 rows. I rotated every 5° and tilted every 5° for plenty of overlap, because the focus distance was only 29 feet away and the blurred out foreground was even closer.
I then aligned all the images with PTGui Pro and blended them with Photoshop. The finished panorama is a little over 630 megapixels and can easily be printed 10 x 7 feet with excellent image quality.
Camera settings: 200mm, f/2.8, ISO 64, 1/160.
Stitching data: 6 rows of 7 images for a total of 42 images.
Equipment used: Nikon D810, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II, Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod & pano/gimbal head. RAW conversion to 16-bit TIFF via Lightroom, aligned via PTGui Pro, and blended in Photoshop.
Date & Time | September 12, 2016: 5:56pm |
Location | Bernard, Maine |
Coordinates | 44.239770, -68.352256 |
Focal Length | 200 |
Aperture | 2.8 |
Shutter Speed | 1/160 |
ISO | 64 |
Number of Exposures | 42 |
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Total Pixels | 631,541,665 |
Horizontal Pixels | 29,735 |
Vertical Pixels | 21,239 |
Aspect Ratio | 1.4 : 1 |
File Size | 3,609 MB |
Width @ 300ppi (perfect) | 8.26 feet |
Height @ 300ppi | 5.9 feet |
Width @ 150ppi (near-perfect) | 16.52 feet |
Height @ 150ppi | 11.8 feet |
Date & Time | September 12, 2016: 5:56pm |
Location | Bernard, Maine |
Coordinates | 44.239770, -68.352256 |
Focal Length | 200 |
Aperture | 2.8 |
Shutter Speed | 1/160 |
ISO | 64 |
Number of Exposures | 42 |
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