Panoramic Shots

[nwoods]

I think there is another important aspect to consider with Panoramic images (sorry, pun intended!). The more effective pano's to view, at least on the web in screen resolutions under 1900px wide, is that photos that end up being much wider than 1900 just get so skinny and small as to loose visual value, impact, and interest.

For example, my origional pano that I posted is 12575 x 1825. Cool! But when presented for the web, it is displayed at 1600x232, and looks too small to be of any interest:

I think the real art of M.Slade's completely engaging images, even of mundane items, is that they are not too wide, and retain a sense of propotion that works well for the screen format we are sharing. So taking a lesson in that, I cropped my pano way way WAY down, to this 1600x650 image, and think it reads much better. As always, the art in the pano is in the framing & composition as much as the subject.

 

[adventureduo]

I like the first one, even though you can barely see our camp.

 

[Michael Slade]

Here's something I just wrote for my Sophomores. We just so happen to be half-way through our assignment on panoramas.

Mini-lecture about Panoramas.

 

[nwoods]

Thank you for posting that Michael. Now, do mind if I ask a very dumb question? Why are so many of your crèche photos shot as panos? Are you contrained by lens options? I don't understand what the pano delivers in liue of a slightly wider lens?

 

[Michael Slade]

A lot of it has to do with perspective.

I want to be a certain distance from the subject and don't want to move backwards either with my feet or with the lens. There are also other times when I can't take any steps backward, or if I do I ruin the placement of the subject within the frame. So, to get the wide-ness I want I choose to shoot it with a pano. Also, I am shooting most of those on a little Canon G9 point-n-shoot and can't go any wider.

This year I'll be shooting them with my G11, possibly with my D2x and maybe if there's a special one I'll shoot it on 4x10 or 8x20 film...but those would have to be pretty special ones or fabulous light or a combination of the two things.

 

[Strizzo]

http://www.aww-kittah-aww.com/up/files/402/Arches panorama.jpg

i didnt take the photos, just stitched them together in photoshop. taken in Arches nat'l park about 45 minutes before sunset. we had finished "early" at 4 in green river and about 15 of us hauled *** to moab to see arches before the park closed, then had dinner at moab brewery.

be gentle, i'm pretty green at photography in general.

 

[ExpeditionOz]

The southern side of Mt Kosciuszko, which at 2228m is the heighest mountain on the Australian mainland.

Looking back into Victoria from near the top of Carruthers Peak (2,145m) on the Main Range Walk to Mt Kosciuszko.

The view north from near Mt Grant on the western edge of the Dargo High Plains of Victoria.

Looking down on Gippsland from the Mt Torongo Tower.

Looking northward from Mt Horsfall across the Upper Yarra Reservoir catchment area.

 

[fangars]

Nice work, ExpeditionOz.

 

[fangars]

 

[Michael Slade]

Now THAT...that is a nice image.

 

[Sexy6Chick]

Now THAT...that is a nice image.

Tell me about it. Fangars never ceases to amaze me. This has got to be one of my favorite photos ever!

 

[fangars]

View Large On Black

 

[Michael Slade]

Not sure if this falls under the category of 'expedition', but it certainly was a trip.

Here's a pano I shot last night at the school's winter formal.

Lesson learned: I should have taken more time to focus last night. I would have liked to have had the dishes in the foreground sharp. The exposures were 6 seconds long at f/4.5. I should have gone for more depth and just drug the shutter more.

 

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[Joanne]

Valley of Fire, Las Vegas, NV