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Much of east central Florida (5 county area) was shrouded in a dense fog today. I took a bicycle ride around my neighborhood in Merritt Island and got some photos of the scenery. It was an unusual sight, which is a little surprising given how we’re (as the word “Island” implies…) totally surrounded by water. Where the fog really settled in, 15 foot tall tree lines on the road’s edge appeared as miles-tall mountains on the horizon, light-posts became illuminated needle-like monsters emerging from the mist, and as far as the eye could see down-river was shortened from several miles to just several feet.
In the interest of learning more about how to stretch the limitations of image resolution and my camera’s capabilities, I shot three more sets of landscape photos to be stitched into panoramas in post. These were all taken with my trusty Canon SD1000, without a tripod, from the the balconies of the 5th floor rental of Flores Ocean Suites in Cape Canaveral / Cocoa Beach, Florida. All were then stitched together with Adobe Photoshop CS4′s Photomerge automation, using the “automatic” setting with Blend, Vignette Removal, and Gemotric Distortion Correction enabled.
This was my first time putting a genuine effort into photographing lightning. Only one of every ten pictures I took actually caught some lightning in the frame, but then again, I was on continuous-shoot mode.
Hope everyone’s Independence Day was a good one. I had a great time this year out at Lee Wenner Park. They launched fireworks from a barge in the Indian River, and had a big live symphony playing classical pieces (sort of) in synchronization with the show from the amphitheater.
While I’ve always enjoyed taking pictures, I’ve mostly only ever done it as a means of capturing reference for drawings, or to use as some element in some work of a larger scale.I had some free time recently, and I put the finishing touches on some panoramic photographs I took over the past few years in my new Photography section.
The rain this week has been relentless. The parking lot in front of the apartment, the courtyard behind it, and parts of my leaky car’s interior are all under water. In a moment of relief from the downpour, I caught this rainbow arcing over Wickham Road with my phone’s camera: I just got the phone [...]