Cityscape The ancient city of Mdina

[evacguy]

Taking a walk around the walls of Mdina in Malta. Starting from the North West corner, going counter clockwise to the South East corner. Mdina was the ancient capital city of Malta before the Knights of St.John (Knights Hospitallers) built the fortified city of Valletta in 1565 and made Valletta the capital. It is a beautiful old city, pretty much unspoilt. Each image in a pano of at least 3 shots.

Image 1, looking towards the north west corner of the city walls.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 32.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 100

Image 2, looking at the South West corner of the city walls.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 100

Image 3, looking at the South West city wall

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 100

Image 4, looking at the South West city wall

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 100

Image 5, looking at the South West city wall

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/160 sec
• ISO 100

Image 6, looking at the South West city wall

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

Image 7, looking at the South City wall, west of the main gate.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 100

Image 8, looking at the South East city wall, East of the main gate.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

Image 9, looking at the South East corner of the city wall.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Richard A]

Great panos of what looks like a beautiful place. And good on you for putting some info in your post with your photos. I like that.

Do you have any tips for doing panos?

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Ed the tour guide!

 

[evacguy]

Great panos of what looks like a beautiful place. And good on you for putting some info in your post with your photos. I like that.

Do you have any tips for doing panos?

Thanks Richard. Mdina is a rather special place. I have a heep more photographs to process of Mdina, when I get the time. The pano's are rather easy to do. I actually brought my tripod along on this trip to use for pano's but didn't end up using it. I have the level indicator on in the view finder and just ensure I remain level on each shot, ensure I have sufficient overlap, wait for people to get out of the way if they are going to make it into more than one frame, and fix the exposure so it is constant for all images. Seems to work reasonably well and LRc does a great job of stitching them together.

 

[evacguy]

Ed the tour guide!

Thanks Chris, I like to research the places I visit before I get there so I know what I'm looking at, and try to figure out potential shooting locations.