Finally got to go to my first ball game at PacBell Park, last night. It's incredible. The view of the Bay actually distracted me from the game. If you visit SF, you need to go to a baseball game!

This panoramic was constructed in Photoshop from three images taken with a Samsung point-and-shoot digital. You can see a much, much larger version here >> (http://gallery.photographyreview.com/showphoto.php?photo=3283)

John! This is so great! I love what you did by segmenting this to make a complete image. As a Nor Cal native, and avid SF lover.... I have yet to go to Pac Bell Park *sniff sniff*.
I really enjoyed this!!!!!

VD


Finally got to go to my first ball game at PacBell Park, last night. It's incredible. The view of the Bay actually distracted me from the game. If you visit SF, you need to go to a baseball game!

This panoramic was constructed in Photoshop from three images taken with a Samsung point-and-shoot digital. You can see a much, much larger version here >> (http://gallery.photographyreview.com/showphoto.php?photo=3283)

Ah, Frisco...that's where I was born and lived till about 4 yrs of age. The last time I was there was to officiate my grandmother's funeral a few years back. I drove over to the mission district for my first time to check out where we used to live. When I was a child the street we lived on looked like a freeway to me, and it surprised me when I found out just how narrow the street really was. Tells you something about a child's perspective...everything looks larger than life.

Anyhow, very interesting picture, John. I like the segmented panorama idea. My boss was actually at the game last week, I believe. He complained because he didn't realize how cold it would be there. That's a southern californian for you, hehe.

Ray

Mmmmmmmmm.... garlic fries!!!!!!


I went to one game at Pac-Bell Park. I agree, it's the best park I've been to (not that I've been to many, but I've been to Miller Park in Milwaukee, Pac-Bell in SF, and that new one in Seattle).

Tell me this, if you can: We were sitting near the bullpen. Every time a new pitcher warmed up, the audience sitting nearby made the cutest little sound... it was like a little melodic buzz, ascending the scale upwards as the pitcher threw, and ascending back downwards as the catcher returned the ball. I've never heard that anywhere else. Is it a SF thing? Or was it just unique to my particular game?

PS. I'll be in SF next week.

Ah, Frisco...that's where I was born and lived till about 4 yrs of age. The last time I was there was to officiate my grandmother's funeral a few years back. I drove over to the mission district for my first time to check out where we used to live. When I was a child the street we lived on looked like a freeway to me, and it surprised me when I found out just how narrow the street really was. Tells you something about a child's perspective...everything looks larger than life.

Anyhow, very interesting picture, John. I like the segmented panorama idea. My boss was actually at the game last week, I believe. He complained because he didn't realize how cold it would be there. That's a southern californian for you, hehe.

Ray
Ray, I just drove my husband past the house he grew up in, in Alhambra, CA. It was his first time back since moving away 35 years ago. He almost couldn't handle it, how small it was. He was describing how LOOOOOOOOOOONG the street he had to walk down used to be. :)

OOps, I almost forgot my original post, which was to comment on the photo. I LOVE how you did that with the separate shots. Love the drop shadows, which make it look like three photos sitting on the kitchen table, which makes the broken alignment seem amazing, rather than flawed. Love it, love it, love it!!!

Finally got to go to my first ball game at PacBell Park, last night. It's incredible. The view of the Bay actually distracted me from the game. If you visit SF, you need to go to a baseball game!

This panoramic was constructed in Photoshop from three images taken with a Samsung point-and-shoot digital. You can see a much, much larger version here >> (http://gallery.photographyreview.com/showphoto.php?photo=3283)Wow, I got a nosebleed just looking at the big version. :D
This is a good way to present a panorama that can't be stitched because of movement you can't control.
One of the big days in my life about a hundred years ago was landing in SF (seeing Candlestick all lit up) , bussing over to Oakland and getting an old hotel room near the bus station (scary for me then), going to Alameda NAS the next morning and then taking a boat ride across the bay to report to my first ship (USS Hancock CVA-19) at Hunters Point. Your shot takes it all in for me.

PJ thats a great point of view. . the bay in the background such a feeling of openess. I like the effect of the three piece panorama. A great artistic effect to be framed just as it is.