Entries in panorama (18)
St. Petersburg Florida fine art panorama photograph 50 inch print
Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 4:35PM Jason Collin 
This afternoon I personally delivered a client's order of a 50 inch x 25 inch canvas gallery wrap fine art print. This was my first time also to see this image in print. I originally featured this photograph in this blog post. After the client decided upon this particular image, I had her measure the space she was planning on displaying the image to get an idea of what sizes would work best. 50 inches on the width is the largest canvas to date a client has ordered. The single image holds up just fine at that large print size preserving details in the image even when viewed close up.
In addition to this image, I have a large catalogue of unique images of St. Petersburg, Florida and the surrounding area available as fine art prints or for commercial license usage that show St. Petersburg's character far beyond what stock images do.
Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park Panorama Tampa Florida
Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 2:14PM Jason Collin 
Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park 3-shot panorama - Nikon D300 Tamron 17-50mm @ f/11 ISO 200 1/500thAn oasis of grass and community in downtown Tampa, that is how I would describe Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. I made this 3-shot panorama image of the park while waiting for a potrait client to arrive. On a sunny Thursday afternoon two days after Christmas, the park was full of people enjoying a crisp afternoon by the Tampa waterfront. I thought I would try a handheld panorama shooting into the sun to see how it would come out.
St. Petersburg Florida downtown harbor panorama fine art photograph
Monday, October 1, 2012 at 1:33PM Jason Collin 
Click for 1200px version - St. Petersburg downtown harbor panorama fine art photograph - Nikon D300 Tamron 17-50mm @ f/11 ISO 200 1/400th 4-shot panorama
- Inquire about fine art prints and commercial license usage for this panorama image of St. Petersburg
If you have Photoshop CS5 or CS6 it is amazingly easy to make a panorama image. The above panorama of the downtown St. Petersburg, Florida harbor is composed of four shots that I made handheld using only the gridlines in my viewfinder to line up. Then I loaded those four shots into Photoshop's Photomerge action, led the CPU do a lot of processing, and voila, out came a panorama that I then proceeded to do my usual editing workflow on.
I am often with my camera near this small harbor as I use this location when teaching my 1-on-1 DSLR Photography Lessons. It is a very good spot to practice making panorama images, composing with leading lines, S-curves and sometimes even wildlife.
iO6 Panorama Feature on iPhone 5 first photo example St. Petersburg Florida
Sunday, September 23, 2012 at 2:12PM Jason Collin 
Before I went to bed last Thursday, I set the alarm on my iPhone 4 for 2:55am. This was not because I have a new paper route or decided to follow in my grandfather's footsteps and be a milkman, but because I want to insure I was able to get one of the first preorders in for the new iPhone 5 that here on the coast would be first available at 3am Friday morning. So I rumbled out of bed and began refreshing the iPhone 5 page on apple.com. Another reason to be one of the first was that I had already secured in my buy-back price for my 2-yeard old iPhone 4 on the great site gazelle.com for a whopping $146! That's right, it basically meant that the new iPhone 5 would only be $54 out of pocket, if I could get one before October 1st.
Well, my early rising paid off as my iPhone 5 (white, 16GB, AT&T) was delivered on the first available date (Friday the 21st). It took almost four hours to sync all my backup data to it, so I did not have much opportunity to test the new iOS 6 panorama feature until yesterday (Saturday). I was walking Kiki around Crescent Lake Park, a common Saturday evening activity and with the wide open views from the lakeside, I had my first chance to test the panorama function.
I saw a video of how it works so I knew you do not take five or six separate shots in a row, but rather turn the panorama feature on and then glide the camera over the area you want to photograph. There are visual guides to keep your framing on track, and I must admit I was rather wobbly in my first attempt as you can see in the unedited image above.
Still, there was a large portion of the image that was usable. I cropped out the left, right and bottom edges and found a decent remaining image. The exposure was a little off and there was a lot of noise in the sky, but overall I thought the new panorama feature in iOS 6 on first impression seems to be very usable. I look forward to trying it again with a more steady hand and in different light.
Have you made any panoramas with iOS 6 yet? Post your examples in the comments below.
The St. Petersburg Pier Night Light Reflection Florida fine art images
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 9:19AM Jason Collin 
Click for larger version of The Pier night light reflections available for fine art print or commercial license - Nikon D300 Tamron 17-50mm @ f/8 ISO 200 4.3 sec tripod mounted with cable release
The Pier of St. Petersburg, Florida presents at this time a unique opportunity for local photographers. It is by far the city's most recognizable landmark, but it is scheduled for demolition in one year's time. A part of me does not necessarily believe in the end it will be razed because what is slated to replace it, a structure called "The Lens," is so preposterously fantastic I cannot imagine such a thing existing just off the modest St. Pete waterfront.
The odd shutter time of 4.3 seconds for this shot is due to shooting in bulb mode. I took a test shot and then based on feel kept the shutter open how long I thought it would need. A more scientific way would have been to use a stopwatch, but for exposures of only about 4 seconds a rough estimate counting in your head is good enough.