I know my eyes were weary yesterday after a Thursday starting at 05:30 in St Ives and finishing at 05:30 in Ipswich on Friday but what poor stitching in that 10 minutes after sunrise image!
I noticed it only when I zoomed to full screen much later on. I had half expected some issues especially on a rising tide and at the speed the harbour was filling so at least this is yet another lesson learned form my Cornwall jaunt. The moral of the story is to make the work at dead low water with nothing moving but for seagulls and grockles. Bobbing boats and tidal moorings are obviously tricky for foreground panorama making.
The view from our rented pad for the week overlooked the back door of the Tate St Ives which I suppose is what most artists might call ‘Work-in-Progress’. I am not enamoured with the front facade and looking at the building site beneath us was much more interesting. I somehow doubt that the dodgy front facade will get changed as it is due to re-open in March 2017. The bonus of our elevated height and the fact that TATE was closed for re-building was that we did not suffer the ignominy of being papped by gallery visitors as do Southwark residents!
I expect that this will be the back door through which big bits of art will come and go but that will be dictated by the rather narrow and dare I say it steep lanes around this town. Nothing fancy here just a lens on a camera on a tripod with a cable release.
I have uploaded the panoramas made during the week to a gallery http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/galleries/arts-practice/land-and-seascapes/st-ives/
Overall, I’m pleased with my schooling down there and the detail picked up inside buildings has impressed me. I dare say at some point I’ll learn how to bodge and dodge my way around the dodgy stitching in yesterday’s post. If anything I have also learned that by relying on the tools in both Lightroom and CS6 there is a huge dependency upon the the way the software handles the components. CS6 removed the small boat and fisherman completely but still gave mono hulls dual hulls in some cases. I’m pretty sure I have cracked the nodal point (camera pupil eye point) of the 85mm lens so I’m looking forward to some local twilight testing with this combo.
My other favourite if only for the early morning clouds is this image
This viewpoint is looking due West