It is all about the PanoramicsWell hello guys!
I thought he'd do a short little blog on my panoramic work!
If you don't know because you don't see it very often, I don't post panoramas on Instagram and rarely do I post them on Facebook. That's because they just don't work there! Instagram is such a small image it's almost not worth looking at. So to that end I thought “heck” let's do a blog and post a link to my website.
I'll be quite honest with you right up front a panoramic should really be seen on paper in front of you on the wall! But next best thing is right in front of you on digital media. So I'm just going to put a couple up here do a short little explanation how they were captured where they were captured and roughly how many images it took to create the image. Understand also that some of these files are absolutely huge! Downloading one would take minutes sometimes longer but because it's through my website you can see them quickly. First image I call it “The Fence” I captured on Hwy 22 South of Calgary; it was cold, it was a little windy, but my trusty 5D mark 3 soldiers on without an issue. There are 31 images in total making a very large image. This image is well into 96 meg, on printed paper it would be a total of 96 inches wide. But of course, it can always be printed smaller. The next image is called “a little bit of colour”. this image was shot near central Alberta on a lake called Brazeau. The lake is man-made just up front and be honest. It is very dark when the image was shot, each shot is 1/3 of a second in length and there are six shots, photographed by my mighty Canon 5DSR. It is believe this or not, still 77 inches wide and represents 85 meg, the pleasures of a 50 megapixel camera. Now we come to one of my absolute favourites “nature's looking glass”. This image was photographed in a location that is of no consequence whatsoever, it's just a lake near my home. The light was gorgeous and the reflection was astounding, that made this image sing! There's a dreamy quality to it I truly love it and it is one of my more popular photographs! Now here comes the specs, it is a mere 47 inches in length it isn't very big and it's only 36 Meg in size. It only took 4 images to create, this one's all about timing!
And now for the truly massive one! Its title is “Homecoming”. I photographed this one when I had an Canon 7D APS C camera, I wasn't overly impressed by the camera, but it was a good camera. You could say I've become somewhat of a snob when it comes to full frame cameras, but you wouldn't be completely correct, but you wouldn't be completely wrong either. The image is comprised of 36 separate images, there's three banks of 12 images, 12 to the top 12 to the middle and 12 to the bottom. All photographed with a 200-millimeter lens from a fair amount of distance. It created an extremely detailed image that is excruciatingly large. Final size of this image is 108 inches in length and a mind bendingly large 145 megapixels. Imagine if I where to photograph the same image with my Canon 5DSr at 50 meg each image as opposed to the 7D's 18 meg, it would almost three times the size. Ummmm a project in the works...
What can be said for panoramic images is that they can get incredibly large, and it will tax your computer to edit them. I have had images as large as 8 to 10 gigabytes in size which slows the computer down no matter what. But I'm a landscape photographer and I have patience. What also can be said, is I truly enjoy taking panoramas! I haven't printed very many, I would like to print very many more but that is truly up to you as the simple cost is prohibitive for my simple pleasure. If you find one that you like please don't hesitate to ask I can always resize it to your requirements and I would be more than pleased to print it.
So with that being said the little lesson that I've given you in the size of some panoramas, I hope you enjoy the blog I'm going to do my utter best to continue posting on a regular basis at least once every other week because I do have other things to do in life. Beyond that I will end in the same way as I have always ended well actually since the last one…LOL Shut up and shoot! And don't forget to print it! Cheers all
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