Larry Treadwell
About the Image(s)
Cincinnati Skyline
Nikon D850, Nikkor 80-200mm f2.8 lens at 100mm with lens shade attached, ISO 250, f5.6, .4 seconds, tripod with Really Right Stuff ball head with panoramic calibrations, with cable release.
The final image is a 7 image panorama created in Lightroom. The camera was placed in the vertical position. Shooting with the camera in the horizontal position would have made the city a very narrow ribbon due to the distance I was from the city. When cropped the final image is 66.34 inches wide and 24.23 inches high. I chose to use my cable release rather than my remote shutter release because I needed two hands to both steady the tripod and rotate the camera position on the tripod between shots. By using the cable release I was able to hang the cable release around my neck and thus keep it handy.
While this is a photo of the Cincinnati skyline, it was taken from Devoe Park in Covington, Kentucky across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. The elevation is somewhere between 174-236 feet above the Ohio River. The vantage point from which this was taken was a point that extended about 20 feet outward. Thus the Cincinnati skyline sort of curved around my position. The famed Roebling Bridge (image posted last month) is mostly blocked by a railroad bridge but one of the Roebling Bridge towers (the one on the far side of the river) can be seen above the purple building that is the Radison Hotel roughly in the center of the image. I think this is all in focus, but if not, someone will let me know. I shot the full set of 7 images three times and actually processed all three. I know I focused the camera prior to each shot. The third set of shots was shot at f4.