- 1 panoramic print
- 1 HDR image
- 1 Landscape made using your smallest aperture
- 2 prints exploring landscape however you'd like
- Exported Catalog for assignment 3: should include at least 3 panoramic images, 3 HDR images and 50 additional image files exploring landscape.
In the Homework Drive: Export a catalog for Assignment 3
When?: Thursday October 26th
SLIDES
Landscape History
- Collection containing 3 HDR images (include the source files)
- Collection containing 3 Panoramic images (do not need to include source files)
- Collection containing 1 small aperture image
- Collection containing your 50 additional image files
When?: Thursday October 26th
SLIDES
Landscape History
Panormamic Imagery
When shooting a panoramic, you’re compressing space and time into a single, stretched frame. Consider how the place you photograph will be translated through this process, and think about how you might experiment with the multiple moments in time that you’ll combine into one image. Look at examples of panoramic photography, so that you can anticipate the peculiar look you’ll achieve with this process. Straight lines can become curves, and you’ll warp and bend objects very near to the camera. Scenes that are far off tend to look much less distorted and more seamless.
Watch this video tutorial about how to assemble a panoramic in Lightroom.
When photographing for a panoramic image, take these considerations into account:
Watch this video tutorial about how to assemble a panoramic in Lightroom.
When photographing for a panoramic image, take these considerations into account:
- Be sure to overlap each frame that you shoot by about 50%. In other words, when you frame up each shot, you should include 50% of the previous image in your next shot. This will give the software plenty of information to align and should provide seamless stitching between frames.
- Keep your exposure and focus on manual so that nothing changes between each shot.
- Photograph under consistent lighting (avoid lighting that is changing between your exposures, such as when the sun is moving in and out of cloud cover).
- Photograph on a tripod, so that you can keep your camera level between each frame.
- Photograph your individual frames using a vertical frame (portrait orientation).
HDR (high dynamic range)
One of your images needs to be a merged, multiple exposure HDR image: a high contrast lighting condition for which you've made multiple exposures.
- Photograph using a tripod, to prevent movement between the varying exposures.
- Make 3, separate exposures: one as your light meter indicates, then make an exposure one stop less light and one stop more light. See slides in the slideshow link above for examples.
- Adjust your exposure using your shutter speed rather than your aperture, so that you don't change the range of focus between individual frames.
Small Aperture / Deep Depth of Field Landscape
Using a small aperture opening, such as f/16 - f/22, allows you to capture nearly every element in a scene in focus. Make a landscape picture that brings every detail of the scene into focus. Can you photograph a scene in which the optics of the camera will reveal more to you than you can experience with your own eyes?
Theoretically, a perfect photograph is absolutely inexhaustible. In a picture [meaning a painting] you can find nothing which the artist has not seen before you; but in a perfect photograph there will be as many beauties lurking, unobserved, as there are flowers that blush unseen in forests and meadows.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Note: using a small aperture will likely require you to work with a long shutter speed, so be prepared to use a tripod to avoid motion blur in the picture.
