Wide angle view from Fenway Park, Loge Box 157, Row BB

Today’s photo is a photomerge of more than half a dozen photos taken from the seat I previously mentioned here. This would have been a great seat, had there not been people (fans, ushers, and vendors) walking in front of me constantly. There were very few pitches in which I could see both the pitcher and the batter and quite a few pitches in which I couldn’t see either.

It’s tough to tell, given the wide angle of the lens coupled with a photomerge in Photoshop of numerous pics, but David Ortiz is the batter against Ricky Romero. Big Papi hit his 399th career home run in this game as Romero was roughed up for just his second loss (eight victories) on the season.

Posted on June 29th, 2012 under Other. Tags: baseball, boston, ellie, fenway park, nikon d7000, panorama, photoshop, ryan, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Fenway Park panorama

This 180 degree panorama is a photomerge from a series of 6 ultra wide angle images I took while looking over the edge from the top of AT&T Park. The street heading off to the left and to the right is really the same, straight street with no curve in the road. The distortion is due to the photomerge and the close distance I was to the street. You can’t see this view in real life without turning your head from side to side.

To the far left is the Pacific Ocean and to the far right is the San Francisco Bay. You can see a bit of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the right, especially if you click on the image to make it bigger.

Posted on May 15th, 2012 under Other. Tags: dusk, nikon d7000, panorama, photography, photoshop, san francisco, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on King Street – San Francisco

Oakland has a curfew of 11:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. Opeth finished things up promptly at 11:30, but it seemed a shame to just go home with my all access pass still in effect so I headed back up to the stage for some photos of the now vacated Fox Oakland Theater.

This photo is actually five pictures taken vertically with an ultra-wide angle lens and then photomerged together in Photoshop CS5.

Posted on April 30th, 2012 under Other. Tags: california, fox theater, nikon d7000, opeth, photoshop, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on After the show

I tried another photomerge with about eight photos I took on Monday night at the Angels-A’s game. This looks much better if you are on a big screen, maximize your browser, and then click on it.

Posted on April 18th, 2012 under Other. Tags: baseball, california, los angeles, nikon d7000, panorama, photoshop, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Angels Stadium Panorama

At 11mm on my DX (crop sensor) Nikon D7000 today’s top image of Dodger Stadium is pretty wide. But I wanted to see what I could do with photomerge in Photoshop CS5 so I merged/stitched five images from the same vantage point together with the following result.

Not only do I like the result much more, but photomerge did a couple of really cool things. First, with each of the five images, the picture on Diamond Vision in left field changed. I thought photomerge would blend them all together into a mess. Instead, it took just the first one for a clean Diamond Vision scene. Second, players on the field and people in the stands were moving between the five photos. Somehow photomerge detected this and didn’t put multiple versions of the same person into the final scene. Very cool, photomerge. I think I love you. I guess I can ditch my ultra-wide angle lens and just photomerge my future photos together!

Posted on April 14th, 2012 under Other. Tags: baseball, california, los angeles, nikon d7000, panorama, photography, photomerge, photoshop, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments: 1