So Cal So Cal

airbutchie wrote in post #15815896
Here's some 'spice' for you, Mike, from last night... Heheheheh... Hilltop Park Sunset Panoramic...

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/airbutchie/8639​319893/

1Ds3 + 200 1.8L... ISO 50, f/9 @ 5 second exposure for each of the 14 frames taken... Stitched and finalized in CS6... Below is a link of the original version... I highly recommend viewing it if you want to see the details of the scenery... Happy Thursday, my SoCal family!!!

http://www.flickr.com …3/sizes/o/in/ph​otostream/

Wow! this shot is freakin awesome!! So sharp and just beautiful.

EDIT: Dang, my work monitor is too small to really appreciate... I'm going to check out again when I get home tonight.

Great shots! That pano is amazing, and look how clear it was you can see all of Catalina I thought the smog was going to be worse. Mike what did you do to that shot in your first post to make the lights look like search lights, never seen that before?

airbutchie wrote in post #15815921
This one's excellent, Mike... Love it, LOVE IT!!!

+1 I love this shot too!!

T2i4me wrote in post #15816231
Great shots! That pano is amazing, and look how clear it was you can see all of Catalina I thought the smog was going to be worse. Mike what did you do to that shot in your first post to make the lights look like search lights, never seen that before?

I turned the focus ring in the last 3 seconds the shutter was open of a 25 second exposure.

^ Brilliantly creative, if I do say so, Mike...



PS. Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments...

edmyloo wrote in post #15813314
Slammed Society and Formula D this weekend anyone?

I'll be at FD Friday & Saturday. My first time going both days. Bought a monopod and I am hoping my 135L is long enough to get some good middrift shots

Awesome paneramas above, gang. I am gonna have to make it out to one of your meetups sometime.

sorry i couldnt make it out last night. Very frustrating evening. Wish I could have made it, you guys got some amazing shots.

airbutchie wrote in post #15816264
^ Brilliantly creative, if I do say so, Mike...



PS. Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments...

Thanks! Land/cityscapes are not my thing really and it gets worse when they are not sharp like yours haha. Got to find something to try. I know what zooming does, its a similar effect, the center stays the same but the outside gets all blurry, like this

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …s/mikemimages/5​449427345/

peeaanuut wrote in post #15816290
sorry i couldnt make it out last night. Very frustrating evening. Wish I could have made it, you guys got some amazing shots.

You did not miss too much............... except some guy grabbing a log and running up and down a hill haha

sigma pi wrote in post #15816303
Thanks! Land/cityscapes are not my thing really and it gets worse when they are not sharp like yours haha. Got to find something to try. I know what zooming does, its a similar effect, the center stays the same but the outside gets all blurry, like this

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …s/mikemimages/5​449427345/
IMG_0487 by mikemimages, on Flickr

IS THAT STREETS?

peeaanuut wrote in post #15816330
IS THAT STREETS?

It is!!!

Well since we have some car people and Formula D people, the last time I shot at Irwindale.
http://www.autoblog.co​m …vitational-gymkhana-grid/

All those thumbnail shots on that page are yours? Nice work.
I can't wait to freeze some tire smoke myself. Just got a 300mm F/4 reserved for FD after rethinking using my non IS 135 only..

Yup, thanks! if you click on them, they go to bigger pictures.

I shot those with a 70-200 MKII on a 7D

airbutchie wrote in post #15815896
Here's some 'spice' for you, Mike, from last night... Heheheheh... Hilltop Park Sunset Panoramic...

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/airbutchie/8639​319893/

1Ds3 + 200 1.8L... ISO 50, f/9 @ 5 second exposure for each of the 14 frames taken... Stitched and finalized in CS6... Below is a link of the original version... I highly recommend viewing it if you want to see the details of the scenery... Happy Thursday, my SoCal family!!!

http://www.flickr.com …3/sizes/o/in/ph​otostream/

Just looked at the full version and all I can say WOW!

sigma pi wrote in post #15815911
I know some one else has this pic, post it up!

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IMG_4180 by mikemimages, on Flickr

I snuck over to your flickr feed earlier and this one jumped out at me. Fantastic.

Did you manually expose for the sky and then focus/shoot?