Monday, August 3, 2009

Morning Pano with the Dp2

So the Littlest Guy was talking all morning this morning, starting at around 4:30 and just continuing. After about an hour or so of this, I got up and took him from his exhausted mother to go wandering around to try to get him to sleep. On my way out the door, I saw this:



This is a pano of three shots stitched together. I actually shot about 30, but the three I used were the ones with the least blur. It turns out, the best way to avoid motion blur from just holding the camera in one hand with a squirming baby in the other is to set your exposure to manual, aperture to f/5.0 (for reasonable sharpness, even though everything's at infinity), infinity manual focus, and a shutter speed of 1/80. I used 1/40, which meant that the vast majority of my shots were blurry, and only a few salvagable. Luckily, they were positioned in the region I wanted to give me the image I wanted (though not as wide as I would have liked). I used the incredible Autostitch to make it work.

I might have been able to have taken this in one shot with the Dp1, just because it's got a wider lens; but then, I'd have two of these cameras, and that's a bit much.