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Local landmark

My second attempt at panorama's, this deceivingly complex photo is made up of 11 individual shots and the final uploaded Jpeg file weighs in at a hefty 97 megabites. It totally kicked my computers arse. I had to triple the amount of ram on my computer to 24 megs, just to get it to reasonably complete this daunting task. And there were still color issues in the sky I've never been able to correct. So much so that it would have doomed any other photo of mine and never made it past the editing stage. But this was such a perfect moment, made even more special in that it had to be captured across 11 different photo's and time it took to capture them all in the rapidly changing and diminishing light. So I have kept this imperfect picture.

But for now at least, I finally have a photo of this magnificent looking bank that I've wanted to capture for as long as I've owned my house. Passing by it for the last 17 years, long have I wondered how to capture it on film in a way to do justice to it's beauty. And with the acquisition of my 2 new Nikon's early this year, I finally had equipment capable of doing the job to my satisfaction.

I had taken some test shots under different lighting conditions to get my creative juices flowing, and after my first successful panoramic capture, (the shot you can see in this gallery just previous to this one), I finally knew just how I wanted to capture this local New York City landmark.

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  • DSC_4466 Jersey City on the Hudson
  • DSC_4470 Jersey City on the Hudson
  • You know for ISO 10,000 this is not bad image quality at all. I was led to believe low light high ISO situations were one of the area's where the D810 stank, but so far it has performed well above my expectations at this, and is light years better than what I was getting out of my D300.
  • DSC_4487 Jersey City on the Hudson
  • DSC_4488 NY skyline at sundown
  • DSC_4490 NY skyline at sundown (TS)(TG)
  • DSC_1685 North Cove
  • DSC_4709 playing in the park
  • DSC_4724 playing in the park
  • I came to Roosevelt Island this afternoon to hopefully capture pictures of the Macy's fireworks. After staking out a good spot, like so many here did, we all discovered once the fireworks started that our view was totally blocked.<br />
<br />
 But unfortunately for everyone, it didin't matter if we had staked out a spot on the other side of the 59th street bridge. Police had blockaded off the whole other side of the island, so no one could get a birds eye view no matter what. Boy what waste of a day.
  • DSC_4809 4th of July on Roosevelt Island
  • DSC_3356 the Christopher
  • DSC_3378 the TATS
  • DSC_3387 Savior- faire
  • As Curtis and I walked towards all the famous monuments in our nations capitol, we past by Capital Hill, so I briefly stopped and took a few photo's. It's even more impressive in person.
  • DC by night
  • "Blue hour", my first Panorama (sort of...)
  • Local landmark
  • DSC_5597 Staten Island Savings bank pano   test shot No-3
  • DSC_7644 sunset scene Queensboro bridge
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