Another Multi-Row Panorama

This is one shot with 13 images. I played a bit of a trick on the software putting this one together, but it worked pretty well.



Nada's Creche, 2009

Multi-Row Panoramas

So I have shot a few multi-row panoramas, two were shot yesterday. The one of my mom is kind of fun b/c it's an angle that I haven't seen done of her before. The one of the creche in Brigham City worked really well, it's 15 shots and about 3 rows of images.



Mom Singing Christmas Carols At The Steinway, 2009



Detail Of Creche At Brigham City Tabernacle, 2009

Final Project

Your Final Project will consist of a portfolio of 10 (ten) related images. They have to relate to each other in a consistent theme. They don't always have to tell a story, but could be related by angle, subject matter, tonality (high-key/low-key), light, texture, etc... The individual images should tell me a story, but if the final ten images don't tell a continuous story, they should relate to each other in a different way.

I want you to post all ten of the images to your blog, do some writing about your portfolio and things that you feel you succeeded at, things you think you could have done better and write about the imagery itself. Tell me why you shot what you did, and how you went about it.

I want you to print all ten of your images as well. The prints are DUE at the beginning of the second-to-last class period that we will meet. We will spend two full class periods discussing everyone's work. I want to have EVERYONE turn in ALL of their prints at the same time. The lab will be closed for printing and image manipulation at that time. You can continue to blog, but I will shut down the server and no further work on prints or images may be done.

You also will need to turn in your camera at that time and any other materials that belong to the school. The memory card and your box of paper is your property. Keep track of it, you will use them next year.

If you still don't have a final project idea you should be thinking very hard what you want to do it on. Feel free to e-mail me about some ideas you may be having.

Good luck, I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

Winter Formal - Gallery

Ok kids, so I know that many of you are dying to see the pics from the dance...

HERE THEY ARE.

Panoramas - Don't forget to focus!

Here's one I shot last night at the Winter Formal. I focused on the far lights, didn't stop down very much (the exposure was six-seconds long as it was...), and realized when I looked at it later that I should have TAKEN MORE TIME to focus when I was shooting.



Waterford Winter Formal, 2009

Panoramas - some lessons

So I've been shooting these stitched panoramas for a long time...about nine years in fact. There are a few things I've learned. One of them is that it really is important to have a definite beginning, middle and an end. If they just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on...it's hard to look at them. Kind of like it was hard to read that last sentence. Give the viewer a chance to pause within the pano, read the story that is being told, linger a little bit in the frame, move through the frame and then find the end of the story.

Keep in mind my whole analogy of the panorama equaling a written story. Give me a strong beginning, let the story develop and give me a strong ending. These parts of the story work well in writing, and they work equally well in the panorama photograph. If there is no definite end to the story then maybe it's not such a good photograph. Remember, a panorama that doesn't have a visual ending is just another boring photograph that happens to be long and skinny.

Here is my 'Creche-a-Day' blog. It is made up mostly of panoramas. The ones that are stitched with the black border will be easy to spot. A few I cropped square and clean and they might be hard to tell if they're a pano or not. A few are just one-shot images, but most of them are not.

Take a look at the panos and find the ones that work. Find the ones that don't...there are many. The neat thing about this project is that I was basically forced to show everything I was doing. I had to show an image every day, even if it wasn't the best. A few of the images I really REALLY like a lot. Most of them are just interesting and a few of them just plain suck. It's easy to see looking back at them.

Here is the shot I did on Sunday. I think it was five shots...maybe six or seven if we count that double-exposure that got blended.



Creche In Reflecting Pond With Temple, 2009

If you haven't looked at the site that I suggested earlier, look at it again. This is a good example of a lot of panoramas shot of different subjects in different ways.

Wide Views Panorama Exhibit

There is also this cool website from The International Association of Panoramic Photographers.

You will want to shoot a wide variety of scenes for this assignment. You may even consider shooting something new every night after school. This is where the practice really pays off. The repetition will pay off...TRUST ME! Oh and remember that four prints are due on December 11th.

Please, PLEASE do not procrastinate this assignment. It's already getting late on this one.