Franconian Spring

More from the Walberla on Sunday…

Cherry tree flower, Germany. Cody Duncan travel stock photography

Walpurgiskapelle, Saint Walpurga’s chppel, Walberla, Germany. Cody Duncan travel stock photography

Woman standing on rock. Cody Duncan travel stock photography

Walpurgiskapelle, Saint Walpurga’s chapel, Walberla, Germany. Cody Duncan travel stock photography

Landscape panoramic photo, Franconia, Germany. Cody Duncan travel stock photography

Allgäu in Winter

Made a short little road trip down to the Allgäu region over the weekend, or in other words, to the mountains. The trip was also to test out ‘the van,’ which we are going to take on a 3 week trip to Scotland next month. Weather was hit and miss, but managed a few photos between the snow and rain…

Cody Duncan Stock Photography: Neuschwanstein castle with winter snow, Fuessen, Bavaria, Germany. © Cody Duncan Photography

Cody Duncan Stock Photography: Row boat of wooden dock at Hopfensee, Bavaria, Germany. © Cody Duncan Photography

Cody Duncan Stock Photography: Woman running in snow, Bavaria, Germany. © Cody Duncan Photography

Cody Duncan Stock Photography: Panoramic of St. Coloman Church, Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany. © Cody Duncan Photography

Cody Duncan Stock Photography: Panoramic landscape photo of Snow covered mountain and clearing clouds. © Cody Duncan Photography

Santa Barbara

Nice day today. Seems I still can’t remember it’s 2008 though. Germany in 10 days…

panoramic photograph of Santa Barbara, California. © Cody Duncan Photography

Photograph of Pelican on beach in Santa Barbara, California. © Cody Duncan photography

USS Ronald Reagan

USUSS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier at port in Santa Barbara, California. January 2008

Winter and Summer

Stamsund

Stamsund Lofoten Islands

© cody duncan photography. Panoramic photograph of Stamsund, Lofoten, Norway

Firth of Lorn

From the southern end of Kerrera. Islands of Insh, Garvellachs, Seil and Scarba. Oct 2006

© cody duncan photography.  panoramic photograph of Firth of Lorn from southern end of Kerrera Island, Scotland

Simple Panoramics with Tilt/Shift lens.

Simple Tilt/Shift panoramic technique.

I like using a Tilt/Shift lens for my panos because the post processing is super simple and I don’t have to carry a separate rotating tripod head specifically for panos. Though I do have to carry a specific lens, my Nikon 85mm F2.8 Tilt/Shift is also a macro lens, so I can sort of kill two birds with one stone. If all is done correctly, I can put an image together in around 1 min or less. When moving elements enter the scene, such as water, that is where the fun starts; I’ll post on this in the future.

Requirements:

  • Tilt/Shift lens
  • Tripod
  • Cable release (not necessary, but helpful)
  • Photoshop

In the field:

Be sure the camera is in manual exposure mode. The camera can be used in either portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal) orientation, depending on subject and what you want to do. If shooting horizontal panos in landscape orientation, only 3 shots are necessary, left, center, and right. When shooting vertical panos in landscape orientation, I will usually take 4 shots, as the overlap is a bit thin with only 3, so 4 will give you a bit more to work with if there is any complex blending required (this depends on subject, and in general 3 shots are adequate). You can also experiment with utilizing focal plane shift in combination with panos for some cool and creative results.

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Stamsund

The first time I saw this view (without the snow) was in the summer of 2001, sometime around 2:00 in the morning. It’s from a little mountain on the way to Steinetinden. It’s a very easy hike in summer, which gives an amazing view from the summit. When it’s covered with fresh snow, it’s a bit more difficult, but the view is better and worth the effort, though one wrong move near the top would mean a fall of around 700 feet.

© cody duncan photography. Stamsund, Lofoten

Crater Lake

From back in the summer. click to see bigger…

© cody duncan photography. panoramic photography of Crater lake, Oregon

Been busy… Will post more often once the holidays are over with.

Wellington

During the day I had scouted out a place which I thought would be a good sunset view of the city. But stupid me, I forgot to actually check when the sunset was, so when I returned about 1.5 hours too early ( I thought the walk would take longer than it did) I was left sitting on top of this hill on the most uncomfortable crappy little bench that can possibly be constructed while waiting for the light to fade. And of course Wellington is a city that isn’t short on its gusty winds, so I had to resort to aerobics every few minutes to try and keep warm, with people passing by from time to time giving me slightly funny looks for my apparent eccentricities.

Panoramic photograph of Wellington, New Zealand