Oia, Santorini, Greece

The town of Oia is located at the northwestern most point in Santorini. Oia is most well-known for it's sunset, which has been rated one of the most beautiful in the world. Most tourists gather at the ruins of the castle to watch the sun sink below the sea. This is also where the panorama of Oia was taken during the day. You can see the silhouettes of tourists shooting the sunset. The castle gets very packed at this time as well and if you are late, you won't get a spot to see it. After witnessing the spectacle, many tourists clap agreeably. Interesting side note, Oia was also where a jet ski scene for Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life was shot, down at the port of Ammoudi.

Panorama: Shot at F-11, 1/2500s, ISO400.

UL: F-11, 1/1600 s, ISO400

UR: F-11, 40 s, ISO100. Moonlit bay with Oia on the left. Not sure if anybody has any suggestions to how to make the moon less over exposed. Tried to cut out the moon and paste another one, but it didn't turn out so great. So left it as shot.

LL: F-11, 1/400s, ISO400. Expose for the sky not the people.

LR: F-11, 50 s, ISO100

Panorama Fun 3/52

Panoramas are a great way to provide a different visual perspective. To take a good panorama, it is important to keep the lens at 35 mm focal length (don't remember the reason why, but I'll find out). Each shot should also overlap 1/3 of the previous shot. F-stop should be at F11/16 for good depth of field and held constant for all shots. Once the shutter speed is set, it should not be changed either. This way, when the image is stitched together, the panorama will look fluent. The exposure may be different for each individual shot because of lighting, so you can just take the average of the highest and lowest shutter speed.

I used Adobe Bridge to merge the images and opened it in Photoshop CS5. To do this, select all the images in Adobe Bridge. Click Tools --> Photoshop-->Photomerge...

After this a window will pop up. Make sure Auto is selected and check the box at the bottom "Blend images together" Then just wait and voila.

Above are images taken of Lake Nick in Bolton-Est, Quebec(F16, 10 sec, ISO100) and the Boston Harbor (F11, 10 sec, ISO100).

Boston Skyline 1/52

Checked out the top floor of my parking garage and discovered it had a great view of the Boston skyline. I was able to capture the skyline around sunset. For best results, try to take photo approximately 20 minutes after sunset.

F-11, 15 seconds, ISO 100

Facing north, was able to capture traffic on I-93 going into Boston's financial district.