Southbank at Dusk

I am still trying to capture the gas brigades outside Crown Casino at just the right time.  I was hopeful that my visit on Sunday night would be just the right time.  With the change of season from summer to autumn the brigades should have been firing an hour earlier at 8pm.  I say should have been, because someone forget to tell the little man lighting the flame for the gas brigades, at 8pm, no flames! 

So like every good photographer I looked for other opportunities, and the city skyline after sunset came up trumps.  I've captured the skyline using six separate photographs merged into one.  The key trick to this photograph is ensuring that the same settings are used for each image, panning the scene to capture both banks of the Yarra River.  For those who are familiar with the area, you can see a train moving past on the city side of the Yarra River (left bank) and Flinders Street Station alight in the distance.

(32mm, ISO 400, f/11, 1.30sec)

A hint for taking panoramic photos that I read recently, before you commence panning across the scene, take a photograph of your hand pointing in the direction you are intending to pan.  Finish the sequence with another photograph of your hand pointing in the opposite direction to close the series.  With these two indicators marking the start and end of the sequence, it's alot easier to select the series of photographs for merging when you get back to the computer.