Sunday, March 27, 2011

Panorama Photography

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio. The above picture is not mine, I unfortunately do not have any panoramas to share, this mainly due to the fact I do not live near any amazing scenery. I suppose I could be more creative when I attempt a panorama as there are a few ways this can be done.


Lots of beautiful panoramas in the link I posted. There is so much you can capture in a photo it is simply amazing. Panoramic photography can be done a few ways. Some cameras have a built in shooting mode for panoramas, while ones without it would have to use other software to combine the photos, such as Adobe Photoshop. Again there is probably some free software you may use as well if you're good at finding stuff on the net. Also if you have a camera that can take panoramas it really helps to have a tripod. Even if you can't shoot a panorama on your camera the tripod still helps to keep everything even for when you merge the other images in other software. You can also make it abstract by taking several photos of a scene and arranging them in a way so that it shows what the image is, but is represented in a more interesting way such as taking the pictures at different angles and messing with transparency settings. It all takes creativity and how much time you are willing to spend editing.

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