I had a 3.30am rise this morning to catch the sunrise over Stirling. It was one of those mornings where there’s a little bit of colour just before sunrise, then nothing, you then wait an hour for some decent sunlight. Once it got going though it was a lovely morning. I noticed there were signs all over the Wallace Monument car park saying Drones Prohibited, so I headed along the road and took off from the edge of a field.
The National Wallace Monument on Abbey Craig - Mini 2 1/500 sec, f2.8, 100iso - 3 image manual pano
Another fantastic set of photos, John. I absolutely love Stirling, the castle and the monument. Last time I climbed it, the snow was coming down sideways. Looks like you fared a lot better with the weather though.
Thanks Chris Yeah Stirling is a great place, I found a few new locations around the city I hadn’t been to before so expect to see more photos from there
Totally off topic, but maybe of relevance to anyone planning to visit Stirling, it was revealed in our local paper (Belfast Telegraph) today that Stirling is one of the cheapest places in the UK to get a pint - just over £2 as opposed to £4.50 in Belfast and more than a fiver in London. Cheers
Another batch of excellence! Can I ask, when you say “manual Pano”, do you mean you use LR or PS software to stitch the photos, or do you align yourself? I took a couple of shots last weekend with the plan to use the Pano function in Affinity and the horizon is too curved to straighten, either with the perspective or the straighten tool! It’s very annoying and not happened before, have you ever come across this?
Thanks Billy What I mean by manual pano is that I set the camera to manual then shoot a series of images all overlapping each other by about 30%. These are then stitched in Lightroom to create a pano DNG file that I can manipulate. I could probably get the final shot I’m looking for by just taking a couple of images but I’d then get what you mentioned, curves. I find by over lapping the shots more and taking 3,4 or even 5 images I get less curvature, though I tend to get this more in buildings, roofs etc. rather than the horizon which always seems to come out pretty straight.
Yup, that is the technique I’ve started using of late, and generally it is coming up trumps, (I’ll post a few examples shortly), but in the latest batch I’m getting this curved horizon and tis frustrating to say the least! I will have a go shortly using my old LR and PSE10 software and see if it makes a difference.
The reason for the the no fly messages around the Wallace monument is that someone actually managed to fly a drone right into (and through) a window of the monument! No wonder they discourage repeats! Not any of the GADC of course!
