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/ 

The Great Photographers(Research)

Task 4 The Great Photographers

Research

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Ansel Adams

Man Ray

Tears

Man Ray a tireless experimenter and a crosser of borderlines between media. He produced memorable Dada Sculptures, he was a painter and a film director but his most important work were done in visual twilight zone, in a intense interplay among painting, sculpture and photography that literally set sparks flying.

Ray was no conventional photographer. 

 Information found: Book: 50 Photographer You Should know

Robert Capa

Robert Capa was a war photographer and a photojournalist who recorded 5 different wars:

The Spanish Civil War

The Second Sino-Japanese War

World War 2 Across Europe

1948 Arab Israeli War

The First Indochina War.

Capa was a prime representative of a generation of photographers for those who were interested in political engagement, profession, and adventure were one.

Henri Cartier Bresson

A french Photographer who is considered to be the father of Photojournalism. He was an early adopter of the 35mm film format and the master of candid photography. He produced the Street Photography (life reporatage) style and that was coined The Decisive Moment that influenced generation of photographers that followed.

Henri Cartier-Bresson work was described as sheer beauty and wonderful.

 

Information found: 

Book: 50 Photographer You Should know

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6eRuIxMtbk

Research and Notes for the Presentation

My Notes for the Presentation
Fire on Marlborough Street 1975

On 22nd July 1975 the police scanner picked up an emergency "Fire on Marlborough Street!". Stanley Forman who was working for the Boston Herald American news papers managed to capture this tragic moment with his still camera using a 35mm lens. 

Stanley Forman climbed on to a fire truck and photographed a young women named Diana Bryant and her 2-year-old goddaughter Tiare Jones. Both of them were standing near the fire escape, shouting for help. Before the turntable ladder could reach them, the fire escape had collapsed bringing both the girls down. Only the little girl managed to survive the 50 feet fall.

Stanley got lucky with this white and black photograph as he received the World Press Photo of the Year and Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976.

What I found really interesting about this picture was the composition as it enhances the dramatic moment. Everything happens to point diagonal lines making the picture more disturbing. There is also a contrast between the dark and light shapes. For example, the body and the window against the darker background making the falling people the main focus.      

References 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4245138.stm


Luara's Research for Presentation

Migrant Mother

Migrant Mother [1936]

Photographed by Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange. Lange captured the image while visiting a local and dusty California pea-pickers’ camp in February 1936

Thanks to Dorothea Lange “Migrant Mother” son became the face of the great depression. And by being spread rapidly across the globe it soon prompted the politicians of California to send food and supplies for people suffering like Florence Owens Thompson (who kept her name secret from the world until an interview with a

newspaper in 1976).

In total Lange took 5 exposures of Florence. Lange said that the woman was willing to help because she “seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it”. Which enevitably it did for her and the workers.

Before action was put into place her family and the other 2,500 workers survived on stolen vegetables from a field near by and birds killed with stones.; But when help was sent her desperate cause to keep her children fed and well she had already moved on.

I was drawn to this photo because of personal reasons, I recently lost my mum and I instantly felt a connection.  I felt the desperation and the deep love the children had while burrowing in to this woman’s shoulder, looking for protection, love and comfort. Which although the children are in focus in the composition, they are not the primary focus, by using the lighting sources Lange has the mother high lighted – placing the boys in a shadow of safety. Where as she is exposed to all the problems they had in the great depression, and the worry lines on face enhance her desperation. Also although one interpretation is that the children represent her having the weight of the world on her shoulders.

In total Lange took 5 exposures of Florence on a Graflex camera on 4x5”film. Unfortunately I can not find what lens she used, but if it was taken in the rules that Paul has taught us, I would like to think it would be taken on a 50 mm.

Session 5

Session 5 Notes



Vintage Camera Museum 

Decisive Moments 

Plan For the Presentation

Plan to Test Ideas for the Brief

Ideas for My Panorma Image 

The Ideas I would like to try and test out before deciding what my final piece would be.

Here is a scanned Image of all the ideas I have come up with within the past week. There are eight ideas that could possibly work. However there is a couple I would like to test before I decide what is going to be my final piece. 

Ideas 5 and 7:  Reflection, Distortion and Repetition

Using mirrors, architecture and patterns to create an interesting image.  

Link below are some the techniques that I can use

http://angelgilding.com/Multiple_Reflections.html 

Idea 6: Self Portrait

360 background, in each different scene or section of the room something is happening. Telling the viewer a story.

Idea 8: Vertical Panorama- Using buildings and skyscrapers to form a circle of sky in the middle of the image. I have picture it to be something like the images below but the opposite.

http://forum.detik.com/panorama-yang-diambil-dari-sudut-360-derajat-t512973.html

The way I would create this is by standing on one spot rotating every time to capture the image. (Needs to be tested)

I have not yet decided wether I am going to use colour or black and white for my project.

Task 03 Research and Brain Storminmg

You need to do two things this week: 


1) Make a collection of images and panorama shots that intrigue you or you 
think are note worthy (use the web, books, mags etc) that are similar to the 
types described in the brief. Bring these along to show colleagues and 
discuss after Worcester week to discuss in learning teams. You may need to 
print examples out. 


2) Start to come up with ideas for your own panorama and bring them along 
also. These will also be discussed in learning teams. 

Research

Venice: A Garden in Venice

http://blog.360cities.net/venice-a-garden-in-venice/

Jeff Bridges

http://theforkingpaths.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/widelux-panoramic-photography-compendium/

Sam Rohn 

http://www.samrohn.com/




Found in Google Images 

Neil Montanus

http://www.vintag.es/2012/12/wonderful-panorama-pictures-of-machu.html


Nestor Rivera

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nestorimages/with/8543288171/


Rough Ideas to Start off with..