I am experimenting a lot when trying to learn photography. I have always wanted to create a panoramic photo. The panorama photos I see on different exhibitions and galleries on Internet always looks great and inspiring (check my brother’s panorama photos for example). So the other day I had a clear view over Arvika and decided to try a low light panorama. I wanted to get a fairly high-resolution image so I used my 40-150 mm f/2.8 at the long end. This is roughly equivalent to the field of view of 300 mm on a full frame sensor. Everything went fine with the first row of images. But when I wanted to shoot the second row (the night sky over the city) I really couldn’t see where I was shooting. So it was pretty clear to me that I would need a panoramic tripod head to aid me in situations like these.
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Classic Car Cruise
There was a classic car cruise parade in Arvika today. I thought it would be fun to try to photograph some of the cars. I’ve never tried to photograph moving targets like this but I knew in theory how to do it. It was much harder in practice. I shot handheld with a bit longer shutter speed to try to get some action in the images. These are the ones that turned out OK.
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This is a view over Arvika at the far end of an icy Kyrkviken. It’s an HDR image (obviously) of five exposures. I didn’t get the natural look I like but the light wasn’t ideal this time.
