A Panoramic View of Ross Ade Stadium

A year ago I made my $70 gamble and bought a seat very high up in Ross Ade Stadium. I went up to the ticket window about an hour before the game and requested the exact seat that you see this view from. I made the picture here that went viral the next day. I still thought that I had a few more pictures to make on the day. This was a big game with Notre Dame coming off of the national title game, and Purdue looking to get the Darrell Hazell era off to a great start. Purdue was off to a good start when this picture was made, and if I remember right Akeem Hunt scored shortly after I made the photos here. I have always thought that the photo of the team coming out onto the field could have been better. I was using a crop sensor camera at the time, and I truly think that if I had used a full frame camera I would have had a result much like this one. At the end of the day this is a fun picture that reminds me of a great night.

End of a Rivalry

This weekend will mark the last time that Purdue and Notre Dame play until 2020 at least. That is sad that money has gotten in the way of a lot of college football rivalries. Part of what made me enjoy college football over pro football was the rivalries and passion of the game. The college game is turning into a pro sport more and more. This series was first played in 1896, and has been a yearly affair since 1946. Greed has stepped in to halt the series for a few years at least. I will not have a chance to photograph this great series from the sidelines for now. If they play in 2020 you can bet that I will be there with my camera. The series will end in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium. In 1984 both teams played the first game in the Hoosier Dome with Purdue coming out on top. Can the Boilers use a little luck of their own to win the final game? We will see Saturday.

Merging Photos Into a Panoramic in Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud 2014

This was actually a very easy process. I exported my six files into a folder on my desktop. From there I opened them up in Adobe Bridge which comes in the Creative Cloud for Photographers package. I only open them in Bridge because with one click it sends all six photos to Photoshop ready to merge. I am sure that there is a way to do this in Photoshop, but this is the easiest way that I know how to do it. For this project I used six source images to make the pano. Photoshop has to think for a while while it merges the photos, but then you are presented with the final result. I have used other programs to make panos, but this is by far the best way that I have seen to do it so far. I used the crop function in Lightroom to crop the photo down a bit. I wanted a bit more balance in the photo.