I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend.

Most of the weekend, I’ve been working on perfecting the panoramic pictures I took.  The main one of the Hong Kong Island, I shared several days ago.  It is now done.   The only set of pictures I am struggling with are the ones of the Hong Kong Tram on the Hong Kong Island.  It was a last minute decision to shoot them and being unfamiliar with that area, lead to so-so quality pictures.

I then started to experiment with a photo I took at the Peak in Hong Kong, converted it to a black and white picture, and then cropped it so it has that panoramic width.  Building on this, I then went back to a sunset picture I took with the Red Sun.  This picture wasn’t intentionally taken as a panoramic, but I cropped it to a 3:1 (w:h) ratio to give me a panoramic-like width.  My friend, Craig, said he wished more of the foreground was visible.  I made it a little more visible, but it is still dark.  The little bit of increased visibility gives that added depth feel, at the same time the picture definitely has some graininess.

I hope you enjoy them.  I will be putting these up on my photography website, Gregory Chong.com under a new catagory: Panoramics soon.  Stay tuned!  Click on a picture to see it in an overlay.  Warning: some of the panoramics are large file sizes.

Hong Kong Island

Dark vs Light (Battle for Central)

Rouge Sol

Thanks for looking,

~Greg Chong