Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids

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Oh will you look at that. How very Web 2.0!

Picture-3.jpgDo you ever look up at the sky, a towering office building, or an expansive landscape and wish your photos could capture everything you can see with your eyes? We do, so of course, there is a way to do it. Otherwise, why would we bother writing about it? :)

Our pal Mareen does this neat thing she calls panography. Taking dozens of photos of a scene, she assembles a patchwork of images that more accurately represents what your eyes see when you’re not looking through a viewfinder.

Call it super wide-angle panorama or call it panography, I think it’s awesome. Check out the inspiration galleries on Flickr, and then go check out Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids on PhotoJoJo!

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This post, "Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids", is part of these categories: All articles, was posted by Haje Jan Kamps and saw the light of day on the 18th of August 2006. I hope you liked it.

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By Chris on August 18th, 2006 (permalink)

This is done in a much more automatic way by lots of people to create high resolution digital images. Check out http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/ for a great gallery and discussion as well as software to take the pain away…

By JP on August 19th, 2006 (permalink)

I usually make panoramic photos using autostitch (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/) or pixmaker.

By Ron Israel on August 24th, 2006 (permalink)

David Hockney called his work “photocollages”.

By Todd Quam on June 18th, 2010 (permalink)

It’s amazing what software will allow us to do these days. It increases the possibilities. A few years ago I had an idea to shoot panoramas from an airplane. Most photographers probably don’t attempt it as you’re moving at 80+mph, but I am able to get off 4-5 images panning a scene, and then stitching them together back at the studio. You can see hundreds of samples at my website

 

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