My first panorama

Spuds

Spuds

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I took this last year from a hill overlooking Belfast Lough but I'm wanting to re-shoot it in the next couple of weeks. Beyond getting rid of the camera shake which is really obvious in the (Insainly big) original any suggestions on how else I could improve it?

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I really like that, is it taken from Cave hill or is that it to the right? How did you take it btw? Did you use photostitching software?

As for suggestions, you could maybe swivel the camera to the right a bit to get more of the high ground in the shot instead of the 'nothingness' to the left of the picture. There's a few masts on those hills which are well lit and might give some interesting effects with long exposures.

Awesome picture though :)
 
@Scuzi
It was taken from the Knockagh war memorial. I took about 25 images and stuck them together in PhotoShop, that's actually only about two thirds of the full image, just off to the left I had the moon reflecting off the surface of the Lough but the camera shake messed it up too badly. If you look in the bottom right corner you can just see a hedge starting to emerge so I don't think I can shoot much further to the right but I'll give it a go.

@Wile E. Coyote
The 70-300 VR is quite nice although I haven't had much of a chance to use it yet, I only got it on the 23rd Dec. The VR works really well if a little distracting during panning shots when you notice that the image is moving perfectly horizontally, but the novelty soon wears off and you can get on with taking great shots. Nikon state that you can drop down 4 stops using the VR, I'm not sure about that but I was able to get some acceptable shots at a floodlit rugby game where my 24-70 f2.8 just wasn't fast enough (Or long enough) but I still couldn't get the ISO much below 1600 requiring a heavy dose of noise ninja. My next planned outing is to the Irish Super bikes in April but I'm sure I'll find something to shoot with it before then.
 
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You might try taking a few exposures to get more detail via HDR. Nothing fancy, but could be an interesting take on an already good picture :)
If possible use this to keep the lights in the foreground, lose a little of the glare in the background, and maybe some more detail over the lake (the left of which is like some kind of abyss :p ).
I'd like to see a larger version!
 
You can see the original image here

Its a 3.5MB Jpeg and even after scaling it down a good bit the camera shake is quite noticeable and is the main reason for me wanting to re-shoot it. I took it with my old D50 with my Sigma 24-70 EX DG lens.
 
Spuds said:
@Wile E. Coyote
The 70-300 VR is quite nice although I haven't had much of a chance to use it yet, I only got it on the 23rd Dec. The VR works really well if a little distracting during panning shots when you notice that the image is moving perfectly horizontally, but the novelty soon wears off and you can get on with taking great shots. Nikon state that you can drop down 4 stops using the VR, I'm not sure about that but I was able to get some acceptable shots at a floodlit rugby game where my 24-70 f2.8 just wasn't fast enough (Or long enough) but I still couldn't get the ISO much below 1600 requiring a heavy dose of noise ninja. My next planned outing is to the Irish Super bikes in April but I'm sure I'll find something to shoot with it before then.
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Thanks for that, would like to see some shots if you dont mind :)
 
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