Hurricane Sandy

Captured this photo of hurricane Sandy over Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge...

Used my Sony NEX-7

Nice pano, but I can see the stitching...

Epic pano but yes stitching needs few touch ups

ehhh.. these are straight out of camera, no editing.... the stitching i see in the center of the Manhattan Bridge.... i'll touch up after Hurricane Sandy leaves us alone...

I'd love to be over there at the moment. Get the camera to times square. Watching it live here;

http://aws1.earthcam.c​om/?c=tsrobo3

And the place is screamin' out to be photographed. All empty with Police cars with flashing lights on and fire trucks roaming aimlessly. Get a Police Officer to half open the door on a patrol car and shoot it with the background as an empty street.

Lightbar reflections on the streets, roads/paths soaked, a lone NYPD Patrol car with the door hanging open liflessly, no one around, all dark and grim and looking desserted. Be like a DVD cover (just make sure you've a makeshift rain jacket for the camera, if you are heading out).


Nice panorama though. I agree that the stitching is rather obvious, and could do with another look over. Would've been good to get more of the right hand side in (the barriers knocked over). We know it's a rough time over there at the moment, but the photo doesn't make it look all that bad (in my opinion).

^what?

Dude, what are you smoking... we had 50 MPH winds.... and no power.... and still have no power... running around to "capture" great photographs is not ideal in a hurricane.

That said, my family and i are all right, Still no power, Mayor says no power for the next couple of days.... no running water with the exception of the rain!

You know, there is a reason why I didn't bother to photograph anything before, during, and after the storm. Unless you can capture some disaster footage, the photo just can't tell if the city is under the storm. Your shot looks like a normal shot taken under an overcast sky with some rain. BTW, you need to work on the stitching because you didn't balance the multiple exposures of each frame.

dtufino wrote in post #15186439
^what?

Dude, what are you smoking... we had 50 MPH winds.... and no power.... and still have no power... running around to "capture" great photographs is not ideal in a hurricane.

That said, my family and i are all right, Still no power, Mayor says no power for the next couple of days.... no running water with the exception of the rain!

I never said it'd be an easy task (though I was watching a live camera from Times Square and seen a man or two wandering with tripods). But you'd get some fantastic photographs.


Depends on each person, I suppose though. I'd have gone straight into the heart of it (but I don't have a family or anything that I'd need to mind, so...).

TooManyShots wrote in post #15188169
BTW, you need to work on the stitching because you didn't balance the multiple exposures of each frame.

this shot was taken using the Panorama mode on the NEX 7.... the camera did the stitching not me...

Neighbor help in storms

If everyone on your block knows you have the hot photo rig It's no surpise to be asked to photograph storm damage for insurance. This guy across from me is always there in an Ohio blizzard with his snowblower to clear me out. No sweat to shoot the pine tree that pierced his garage roof.
18-55 MM F5.6 @1-200 with big flash.
thanks for looking.
Sam

Congratulate for the elegant composition, bridges seem to me a sense of approaching disaster...