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Polar Panoramics
These are by way of experiments in preparation for the 19th April 2011 Techniques Tuesday meeting at Derby City Photographic Club. A member has indicated that these would be of interest.

They are prepared from a series of hand held photographs taken by rotating one's body through 360°. The total number of photographs taken will depend on the focal length of the lens used and whether the photographs are taken in portrait or landscape mode.

Taken on a very foggy morning. Grange Farm - Weston on Trent, Derbyshire, UK

Weston on Trent, Derbyshire, UK

Weston on Trent - The Green - Weston on Trent, Derbyshire, UK (The Plough Inn has been demolished since the photographs were taken.

Aston on Trent, Derbyshire, UK

Fellbrigg Hall - Nr Norwich, Norfolk, UK

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These are from my morning walk yesterday, 31st December 2010. iPhoneography this time, almost monochromatic. The landscape covered in fog, not a lot moving about.

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Snow photographs from around our village on Sunday 21st February 2010. By the time I went out on my walk at approximately 8:10am the thaw had started and the trees had shed most of their covering of snow.

This is a High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) of the Old School House in Aston on Trent, covered in a mantle of snow. Dull sky I am afraid this is as it was, no colour.

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On my way home yesterday from Derby and saw these amazing layered clouds. Looking north east from the bridge over the A50 in Aston on Trent towards Shardlow and beyond.

It is a seven shot panorama, the cam in portrait orientation, Photomerged in Adobe Photoshop CS4.


This photograph was taken just after the ones above, I like the way the tree is illuminated, the sun is getting low down even at 13:20hrs and casting a long shadow. The tree has no life of its own, however it is giving support to the ivy growing around the trunk. Interesting clouds again shown in this capture.