7:45 AM

Another experiment with panoramic photography (click picture for full image.)

I have been asked to take a panoramic photo of the entire CCHS school population, so I wanted to experiment with things that are moving and to see how they will blend when I put the images together (because nobody can stand completely still, and in a group that large, somebody's gonna move.)

Moving people worked out just fine. Moving cars, not so much. Check out the red mini-SUV in the front! It looks like a tiny toy car. I would totally buy something like that, though. It would have to get crazy good gas mileage!

I guess people are smaller than cars and don't move far enough within a frame to get messed up. They do get repeated if they move from one frame to another during shooting, though -- but that isn't hard to fix in Photoshop, and nobody's going to move that much in the portrait.

Leon Sullivan Way

I am learning how to make panoramic photos. This is kind of a cheater method -- I took several photos, pivoting from one side to the other, overlapping each photo by about 1/3. Then, I put them in photoshop (CS3) and it actually analyzes the photos and overlaps and rotates them to fit. The result is pretty neat! Click the photo above for a larger image, or go here to see even bigger versions.

I like how the perspective is distorted. It would have to be, because you're looking at 180 degrees simultaneously. It reminds me of the really old panoramic photos made with special cameras back at the turn-of-the-century.

I will definitely have to experiment with this some more.