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      CommentAuthorjason (Admin)
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2009
     
    Aminus3 member John Leech has a series of images this week which use an interesting technique of combining many photos of one scene together to form a single image - sort of like a panoramic collage. It reminded me of the Microsoft Photosynth project in which scenes are generated by thousands of images.

    You can see John's series starting here
    http://john-leech.aminus3.com/image/2009-07-09.html

    The scene is an old mill turned art gallery which exhibits some work by artist David Hockney who first used this technique in the 70's/80's.

    Additionally, some tips John wrote in a comment reply -

    I take loads of photos while trying to visualise the whole scene and making sure there will be lots of over. The camera is on A-mode plus auto white balance to hopefully introduce variations in exposures. The finished image is then created in photoshop copying in each of the pics one by one and moving it into place. It takes a bit of trial and error to layer the shots to the best advantage. If you have a go, then I recommend to start small, maybe 10 shots with reasonable wide angle rather then 200 shots using a long lens. You learn a lot each time you do one. The best tip I can give is to think about the edges of your frame, as some shots will overlap so much that it is only an edge that will show in the final composition. Using 400 separate prints isn't such a bad idea, 400 layers in photoshop begins to get pretty slow, especially when saving. I once lost 2 hours work as I didn't save often enough - a bit frustrating at 3am! But do have a go, its great fun and the end results can be quite extraordinary.

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