Swollen Hawkesbury River 20 image mosaic

[gregbradley]

I am getting into doing mosaic type panorama images.

I took this one on Sun. On Sat the bridge had been closed due to expectations the Bridge would be underwater from spillovers from Warragamba Dam. Last time the dam spilled was in 1998 (I took photos of that event back then, it was wild to see millions of litres of water boil in the spillway channel).

Canon 40D, Polariser filter, 28-135mm F3.5 lens at 28mm, 20 pictures in 3 rows, processed in PTGui Pro and a small amount in Photoshop CS2.

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I have a series of panoramas but wanted to do mosaics as wide panoramas look odd when you add too many as they are thin rectangles. I want to be able to preserve the usual viewing aspect as much as possible with a decent height to width ratio.

I shot this handheld with the camera in portrait orientation.

Greg.

[Ric]

Great looking shot Greg.

That is a lot of water.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Ric.

It was a shake out image for using this new software and getting all the camera settings right. It was also a bit of an event around here. On Sat there were lots of people down at the bridge as it was shut down due to an expected flooding which didn't happen fortunately. I see more rain is on the way so who knows.

Greg.