Cameroon Highlands Tea Field

It’s a breathtaking scenery that every visitor to Cameroon Highlands would never miss it. I have complied the panorama I took back in year 2004 and the one I took recently and wish to share with you all. Here you go…

Bharat Tea Field, Cameron Highlands (August 2004)

Bharat Tea Field, Cameron Highlands (June 2009)

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Nothing much have changed after 4 years except that there’s a new recreational/resting hut in the middle of the field, which is actually good for us to chill while enjoying the great scenery.

There’s actually a few more tea plantation fields around Cameron Highlands. I’ll try to get to them on my next trip up there! Happy Holidays on this long weekend peeps!

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Panoramic Hong Kong

Hong Kong Panorama (night)

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Hong Kong panorama (daytime)

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Taken with Canon 400D with Sigma 18-200

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Venetian Macao (Panoramic)

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Technical Note: Canon EFS 10-22 fitted on Canon 400D fitted on a cheap tripod. It’s very hard to get the horizon level right as I tilted the camera gear to capture in portrait mode. In trying to remove human traffic as much as possible from the shots, here we are.

My Canon 400D tend to go underexpose nowadays and struggle in low light. Taking shots at ISO 800 means stepping into noisy grainy territory. I had to bump up 2/3 steps in exposure bias in processing the shots.

They are then stitched with PTGui and converted to flash format using Pano2VR player.

To know more about Venetian hotel, please practice your google-ing skill. I’m not good with words and they are certainly would not be appealing if I were to write. Let the picture speak.

Location of the hotel after the jump!

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The Peninsula Hong Kong

Canon 400D with Canon EF-S 10-22 at 10mm with 8 exposures, combined using PTGui

Here’s a quick info about this magnificent structure that stands for more than 80 years already.

The Peninsula Hong Kong (Chinese: 半島酒店) opened in 1928 is Hong Kong’s first hotel and is also one of the most internationally recognizable hotels in Hong Kong.^[1] It is located at the junction of Nathan Road and Salisbury Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Founded by members of the Kadoorie family, the hotel today is part of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels group headed by Sir Michael Kadoorie, and it is the flagship property of the The Peninsula Hotels group. The Peninsula has been voted as the world’s best hotel on a couple of occasions, and is widely regarded as one of the legendary properties.

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It was very difficult to get a wider view of the hotel that I needed to opt for panoramic approach to get the entire hotel in the frame. With my tripod set up with the help of Wendy, I was able to quickly snapped a series of photos without much human traffic. Having less human traffic would ease the pain of removing blurring subjects appearing in stitched photo later on. I won’t really call this as panoramic but technically it is (I suppose). It’s more like a fish-eye shot in my opinion. What do you think?

I preserve the dark background, unaltered so that we can appreaciate the result entirely, minus any cropping.

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New World Park, Penang

Here’s one of the two panorama I attempted to take in New World Park last week when I went there for lunch. This piece of panorama is taken hand-held without tripod. I just need to to try to maintain the horizontal balance and staying where I was standing while turning my body around composing the shots. Long to go before I can master panoramic skill, there’s just so much to learn. It’s exciting! I hope you enjoy my shot here.

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