Test Shot Panorama

Testing and Experimenting  

Playing with black and white trying to create something similar to Ansel Adams photographs

Second Attempt

First Attempt

Back Garden

Original Photographs for testing and experimenting  

Ways of taking a sucessful Panorama Photographs

Research on how to take a successful panorama 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSoiIG8X0MQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMdvSoQqtP8

http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Learn-And-Explore/Article/gp09aubf/panoramas.html

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-take-landscape-photographs-with-a-nikon-d90.html

History of Panorama

Robert Barker, an Irishman who introduced Panorama etchings and paintings. His goal was to produce "the perfect Illusion of a real scene." The word Panorama comes from a Greek word "pan" (everything) and "horama" (to see, which is seen, the appearance, the view) which means the all around view. 

Robert Barker's panorama painting showed attractive Landscaped, Famous battles, or important cities. This new art form became really popular and inpsired other painters to followed not just only in England but also in Holland, Denmark, USA, France, Switzerland and Germany. For example, Johanna Adam Breysig painted the first known German Panorama in 1800 for a exhibition in Berlin.    

Panorama Painting of London 1792, from the top of the Albion Mills 

Panoramic Paintings of Edinburgh 1792

These painting by Robert Bakers were displayed on a cylindrical surface and it was viewed from the inside, in London in 1792 as "The Panorama" exhibition.

These circular painting were 15 meter high and often 100meters long to give the illusion that the viewer was the fundamental part of the scene. The  panorama exhibition began in 1830 and replaced 3D objects 


This is when Panorama Began

Book:
Mastering Digital Panorama Photography

Websites
http://www.janeausten.co.uk/the-barker-family-panorama-painters/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(painter)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Aston_Barker
http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/panorama.htm

Panorama Shots & Techniques Used by Photographers

http://sucheepdop.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/photographs-like-these-by-london.html

Certain cameras can make panorama shots nice simple and easy for the photographer and avoid having to use full rotation or segmented panoramic photographs.

To produce images such as the panorama shot above Fred Yake uses different cameras to produce his panoramic shots all around the world. These wide angle photographs perhaps can be possible to produced with a fixed lens or a wide field camera. By using a fixed lens or a wide field it is easier to take photographs with the advantage of a wide frame as there would not be a need to take multiple shots of the scene. 

"My images were taken with a variety of cameras, from standard format with film, panoramic cameras and digital. Panoramic images were taken with Roundshot, X-Pan, Widelux and Noblex cameras." Fred Yake 

http://www.fredyake.com/index.htm 

Wil Pearson is a great example for producing unique perspective that can be made by using fisheye lenses and photo manipulation software.  

http://www.willpearson.co.uk/

Other Techniques that I can try out:

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/50-dazzling-examples-of-polar-panorama-photography/

http://dirksphotoblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/tutorial-create-your-own-planets/

http://weburbanist.com/2008/10/02/5-epic-panoramic-and-360-degree-photographers-and-photos/