My weekend photo-prowl took me along the Kennebunk Bridle Path at high tide on a winter’s day. These are two panoramas taken, back to back, from the bridge over this unnamed little stream a few hundred yards from where it flows into the Mousam River. Each image stands on its own as effective panorama of an interesting and atmospheric winter scene. Stacked one on top of the other, as they are here, I am hoping it truly evokes the place and time.

I am still experimenting with the Sony NEX 3NL’s implementation of sweep panorama. Because the Sony has a electro-mechanical shutter and I cut my sweep panorama teeth, so to speak, on cameras with electronic shutters, I am having a bit of learning curve. Electronic shutter cameras (with smaller sensors) use the rolling shutter from the video function to “paint” the image to memory one line at at time. The operation is very smooth…just as though you were panning a video across the scene. The Sony is more like taking a series of photos which then have to be to stitched in camera to form the panorama. The shutter goes kachunk, kachunk, kachunk all the way across the pan. It is somewhat disconcerting, but now that I have had some practice, I can not argue with the resluts. The files are huge and the detail is awesome!

Sony NEX 3NL with 16-50mm zoom, at 24mm equivalent, in Sweep Panorama mode. Both images processed for HDR effect in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 and then assembled in Pixlr Express.