The Panoramic View
Sometimes a photographic situation calls for the end product to be a panorama, which can be a ratio from 4:1 to 10:1 rather than the standard 4:3 or 3:2 of a regular rectangle image. There are two methods that can be used to produce a long, thin image.
The first is taking the original image and cropping the top and bottom to give you the desired effect. An example of this is the following picture, which was taken in the Netherlands last weekend. As you can see the sky in the original shot was cropped to give the required panoramic ratio and produce a stronger composition.
The second method is to use Photoshop's Panoramic Merge function, which knits together a set of pictures into one. I usually take four or five images of a scene, taken in sequence across the scene, and then use the photomerge function to produce one image. This works very well and the results are usually seamless. It can be fooled if you have a crowd of people who are moving around, you sometimes find that people have heads missing, so I usually stick to static subjects.
The following shot was taken in Limoni on Lake Garda in Italy and is a merge of four individual shots. As you can see, once the images are merged you still have to crop the left and right edges. One of the advantages of using this method is with four High Res images, the resulting panoramic image file is much larger than the cropped image above and can produce much larger prints as a result.
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The first is taking the original image and cropping the top and bottom to give you the desired effect. An example of this is the following picture, which was taken in the Netherlands last weekend. As you can see the sky in the original shot was cropped to give the required panoramic ratio and produce a stronger composition.
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| Original image of the sunrise in Haarlem |
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| The final panoramic image |
The second method is to use Photoshop's Panoramic Merge function, which knits together a set of pictures into one. I usually take four or five images of a scene, taken in sequence across the scene, and then use the photomerge function to produce one image. This works very well and the results are usually seamless. It can be fooled if you have a crowd of people who are moving around, you sometimes find that people have heads missing, so I usually stick to static subjects.
The following shot was taken in Limoni on Lake Garda in Italy and is a merge of four individual shots. As you can see, once the images are merged you still have to crop the left and right edges. One of the advantages of using this method is with four High Res images, the resulting panoramic image file is much larger than the cropped image above and can produce much larger prints as a result.
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| The final image, which is a Photoshop merge of the following four pictures |
ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION.
MORE EXAMPLES OF PANORAMIC PICTURES ARE AVAILABLE ON FLICKR
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