After having read over the brief I decided to look at photographers that use the same technique of stitching images together to create a panorama.
One of the photographers I found who’s work stood out to me was Brad Templeton, every year he goes to a festival in Arizona called “The burning man”. That is where he shoots his amazing 360 degree panoramas.
He has many different panoramas that he has created from 1998 to the present year. These images range from panoramas of the camp site where there are hundreds of tents and caravans scattered around a desert to night time panoramas showing fire displays and neon lighting. It was these night panoramas that really caught my eye.
There was a particular panorama he has created which has a large fire and light show surrounded by a huge crowd of people that have UV paint and glow stick necklaces making every inch of the photo colourful and interesting. I love how Brad Templeton has captured the movement of the fire using a slow shutter speed which has made movement lines against the dark sky, this has given the image a really trippy, unreal feel which works very well.
Templeton has done an amazing job of stitching these photographs together as when you look at the image as one long panorama it has barely any faults, there are only a few traces of blurred, ghost like heads which could have easily have been due to the slow shutter speed rather than the stitching process. The only time this image has a distinct stitching problem is when you view it as a cylindrical panorama, when you do this you can see a line between the star and end of the photograph, although it is hard to complain as Templeton has explained on his main page that his photos are created for printing as a flat image and not for viewing in cylindrical form.
I am going to continue to look through his selection of festival panoramas and possibly use his idea of a night scene in my own work.
One of the photographers I found who’s work stood out to me was Brad Templeton, every year he goes to a festival in Arizona called “The burning man”. That is where he shoots his amazing 360 degree panoramas.
He has many different panoramas that he has created from 1998 to the present year. These images range from panoramas of the camp site where there are hundreds of tents and caravans scattered around a desert to night time panoramas showing fire displays and neon lighting. It was these night panoramas that really caught my eye.
There was a particular panorama he has created which has a large fire and light show surrounded by a huge crowd of people that have UV paint and glow stick necklaces making every inch of the photo colourful and interesting. I love how Brad Templeton has captured the movement of the fire using a slow shutter speed which has made movement lines against the dark sky, this has given the image a really trippy, unreal feel which works very well.
Templeton has done an amazing job of stitching these photographs together as when you look at the image as one long panorama it has barely any faults, there are only a few traces of blurred, ghost like heads which could have easily have been due to the slow shutter speed rather than the stitching process. The only time this image has a distinct stitching problem is when you view it as a cylindrical panorama, when you do this you can see a line between the star and end of the photograph, although it is hard to complain as Templeton has explained on his main page that his photos are created for printing as a flat image and not for viewing in cylindrical form.
I am going to continue to look through his selection of festival panoramas and possibly use his idea of a night scene in my own work.
I am planning on drawing up some sketches and coming up with some solid ideas in time to start shooting my photographs on Monday.
Brad Templeton’s website: http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/
Brad Templeton’s website: http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/
Panorama being analysed: http://pic.templetons.com/cgi-bin/imget?f=brad/pano/burning/constitch.jpg&fw=50530
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