{"id":1300,"date":"2019-05-26T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:20:48","slug":"philadelphia-skyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/philadelphia-skyline\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on how much easier it is to take a panorama compared to 10 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2400-Chestnut-pano3cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2400-Chestnut-pano3cropped.jpg\" alt=\"2400 Chestnut pano3cropped\" width=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2400-Chestnut-pano3cropped.jpg 2673w, https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2400-Chestnut-pano3cropped-300x87.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2400-Chestnut-pano3cropped-768x222.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2400-Chestnut-pano3cropped-1024x296.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2673px) 100vw, 2673px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis photo was taken circa 2007 in Philadelphia, PA. Back then digital photography was still becoming popular and panoramas weren&#8217;t as easy as a rotating your phone. This is a combination of HDR (blending 3 photos with 3 different exposures taken from the same position) and panaroma (stitching together photos from 10 different positions) for a total of 90 images combined into one image. From setting up a tripod, pressing the shutter on my DSLR, stitching the images together using <a href=\"https:\/\/autopano.kolor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Autopano Pro<\/a> software and tuning the HDR it was about 8 hours worth of work. An oldie but still one of my more favorite panoramas I&#8217;ve taken and symbolizing a previous chapter in my life. Thanks friends and city of Philadelphia for all the adventures and life lessons. Some of you I take with me on my journey, parts of you I sadly must leave behind.<\/p>\n<p>To a new chapter in Pacifica, CA. My new skyline going forward. This image took about 5 seconds to make with a single click and sweeping across the landscape with my phone.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5308-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5308-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pacifica Skyline\" width=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5308-2.jpg 8034w, https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5308-2-300x61.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5308-2-768x157.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5308-2-1024x209.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 8034px) 100vw, 8034px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo was taken circa 2007 in Philadelphia, PA. Back then digital photography was still becoming popular and panoramas weren&#8217;t as easy as a rotating your phone. This is a combination of HDR (blending 3 photos with 3 different exposures taken from the same position) and panaroma (stitching together photos from 10 different positions) for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}