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Wednesday
Feb172010

Panoramic Photography

I love to photograph panoramics (pans).  I have included a recent image on my homepage, which was from a road trip around California - La Selva Beach, Santa Cruz.  It gives such a great depth and printed big you can really get to see all the details in the picture.  I shot on my Canon 1ds Mark III using the 17-40mm f4 L Canon lens - i like how the wide angle format gives this elongated sense to the photograph. 

When I am commissioned for interior work, I like to try and incorporate a pan into the shot list, or if something jumps out at me i shoot it!  Like when i photographed the interior of a new music studio in New York BEAT 360 I managed to shoot this:

To get technical - i shoot various fames on a tripod, overlapping about 1/3 of each images with the previous.  this allows greater flexibly with the stiching together at post production.  I also bracket each exposure 1 stop either side so I have the availability to composite elements into the final image.  For example the outside of the windows was shot at a darker exposure and then introduced to the final.

POST PRODUCTION: I retouch most of my own work, to give me lots of creative control - using the obligatory Adobe Photoshop CS4  I use the the command File> Automate> Photomerge to merge the exported .psd files together.  This gives a really great effect.    

Panoramic Photography

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