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September 2009 Blog Entries
28 September 2009
Another Place
A recent trip over to Merseyside included a late afternoon visit to Crosby beach, where Antony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’ figures adorn the beach and I believe there are about 100 scattered along the whole stretch here, with some only visible at very low tide. I was hoping for the perfect sunset so I could capture the figures as the tide went out, shooting on both digital and my panoramic formats. The sunset couldn’t have been better frankly and there were several photographers on the beach making the most of it. I had forgotten to to pack my wellies, but as the tide was receding, I thought I would get away without them. What I hadn’t expected however, was just how boggy the beach here is and this meant I couldn’t put my bag down to swap from digital to panoramic to make the most of the sunset on all formats. Having been experimenting lately with the digitally stitched panoramic, this unforeseen circumstance was another opportunity to practice the technique. Using only a ball leveller on the tripod and not the a full panoramic head, I made some exposures ready to stitch together back home on the computer.
I am continually being amazed at just how good CS4 is at making digital panoramics and it certainly saved the day for the Crosby beach shoot. The joins were seamless and even without a proper panoramic head for setting the nodal point, it created perfect panoramics that rival the ones that my Fuji GX617 would have created on film. Is this the end of shooting panoramics on film for me? We’ll see. Some more testing needs to be done, but for situations like this, it’s definitely swaying in digital’s favour.
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