Over the years I’ve made a lot of photos at the Palmer diamond, where CSX (ex Conrail, nee Boston & Albany and etc) crosses New England Central (ex Central Vermont.) at grade.
The other day I decided to take a completely new angle on this well-photographed spot and I set my camera to monochrome (ex black & white) with a red filter adjustment (applied digitally and is among the Fuji X-T1 preset ‘color profiles’) then set the camera to make a panoramic composite.
I hold the shutter button down and sweep the camera laterally, the camera automatically exposes a burst of images and then sews them together internally. In this case, I set the sweep from right to left.
If you look carefully, there’s a stationary New England Central GP38 on the north-side of the diamond crossing.
This is essentially the same type of function/option now offered by many smart phones. However, I’m exposing the images using my Fujinon 18-135mm lens (which allows me to set the focal length of the pan) and the end file is about a 17mb JPG, which produces fairly detailed image.
I’ll post more panoramic composites over the coming days/months.
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No, not really. The panoramic composites have a much wider angle of view than possible from a conventional lens. I can go up to about 210 degrees, which in effect would allow you to look east and west at the same time.
I’m confused… couldn’t you accomplish much the same effect as your tight crop with a wide angle lens?