Typist: Bethany
Cascadia has always inspired the panorama photographer in me. With my first camera, I remember carefully lining up series of photographs to stitch together into a panorama. I was lucky to have spectacular Pacific Northwest landscapes to photograph, with majestically jutting mountains and unique cloud formations making it a little easier to slide a camera across a scene. I loved shooting photos that would later recreate what was wider than even the eyes could see. Back then, panorama stitching was done with tape. Now, I can capture the head turning beauty of my surroundings with a lot less tape and a lot more technology.
Cascadia has always inspired the panorama photographer in me. With my first camera, I remember carefully lining up series of photographs to stitch together into a panorama. I was lucky to have spectacular Pacific Northwest landscapes to photograph, with majestically jutting mountains and unique cloud formations making it a little easier to slide a camera across a scene. I loved shooting photos that would later recreate what was wider than even the eyes could see. Back then, panorama stitching was done with tape. Now, I can capture the head turning beauty of my surroundings with a lot less tape and a lot more technology.
Dogwood Photography Photo Challenge Week 8, Landscape: Wide Angle/Panorama
"This is a great opportunity to explore panorama stitching and create a wide sweeping landscape."
"This is a great opportunity to explore panorama stitching and create a wide sweeping landscape."
The panorama challenge this week made me nostalgic for those carefully lined up single shots I used to take, photographed on faith that they might be able to be stitched together after being developed. I even began to miss developing photos in a dark room! However, those old, film panoramas would never have been able to include dogs. Even with all the amazing technology of panorama stitching, the computer can't make my dogs hold their heads still as I pan the scene. It takes almost as many takes to get a computer stitched panorama of the dogs exploring Cascadia as I used to shoot to line up the mountains, clouds or shoreline on film. At least after several takes with the dogs, we get to move on. Remembering constantly changing rolls of film suddenly makes me a lot less nostalgic. That, and these tape free panoramas of gorgeous Cascadia.
Less tape? More fur? What do you like best about modern photography?
This post is a part of the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Photography Challenge. Please see more of our photo challenge posts here.
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