(3359 x 600 - 288K)
I shoot a lot of photographs, but my favourite type of shot is the stitched panoramic shot. These are made by taking a series of overlapping shots and using special software to join and blend them together seamlessly. You can shoot anything from high-res non-distorted wide-angle shots to full 360 degree wrap arounds.
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| Grand Canyon North Rim (3359 x 600 - 288K) |
| The full panorama is 7496 x 1339. (37.5 x 7 inches at 200DPI) (Slice at Full-Resolution) |
While most people shoot these to show in VR plugins that let you move around in the scene, I shoot them to be viewed all at once, ideally in high-res output on paper. I frame them 3, 4 or 6 feet long and put them on my walls. They provide a way to see all of a scene, sometimes more in one photo than the human eye can grasp at once.
I'm pleased that some have liked some of my work enough to even buy them, graduating me from amateur to small-time pro. I've collected the best of my shots below.
I've also included the "rest" of them. I take panoramas everywhere I go, and while they sometimes don't work out (no tripod, bad shooting day, low-res digital camera, bad exposure etc.) they are almost always interesting.
Note: The pictures, even though scaled down to 600 pixels in height, are still very large. I usually shoot on film to get good resolution, and they are meant to be appreciated that way. My image viewer will reduce them for you if you like but it will be a bit slow.
