Hey everyone, looooong time no type! I've been very preoccupied with life lately that I've left out blogging for quite a while now, so excuse my absence from the party haha
Now, to write about today's subject, 'Panorama photography'; for those who are curious, Panorama photography is "an image showing a large field of view that is approximately 160degrees."
So y'all know I like to venture back in time, let's talk about when/where panoramas started to appear in the photography world....
Roll on back to the mid 1840's with me as it's been recorded that Joseph Puchberger, from Austria, invented the first hand crank driven swing lens panoramic camera. Impressive stuff right?!! Well, he was not alone.... Let's all geek out right now as a man named Friedrich von Martens invented the Medaskop-Kamera which was the first 4.7x15" model that had curved daguerreotype plates. Von Martens captured Panos mostly consisting of seascapes and cityscapes, which look pretty damn cool... Both of these photographers/inventors work and creativity to develop a new beginning and style of photography is truly amazing! They really did pave the way for other photographers and inventors to create other fantastic cameras. Anything film related that captured panoramas sounds absolutely incredible...
Now let's tuck, drop and roll on to the present day and talk about what I use these days... I've got a standard DSLR camera so the process these days is a lot more different, and advanced, which is a huge blessing!
A daily Pano journey involves traveling to a photogenic area, preferably by the ocean side, setting up my tripod and camera, then proceed to take photos of said landscape, whilst panning the camera, capturing the entire view covering about a 180degrees area. Once I'm happy with the photos I've taken I go through an editing phase and put together a series of photos to make one panoramic photograph.
My editing stages involve quite a bit of photoshop to blend out the 3-4 photos that I took to turn it into one glorious panorama. With the right tools used in photoshop it can take a lot of patience to edit Pano's correctly, as I don't use the automated panoramic buttons, it can take that extra will power to combine the final edit; but alas, I enjoy the challenge!
That's pretty much all I've got to say about in this blog... I would upload a video of my editing process but it's rather boring to watch haha So I will attach a Panorama that I'm rather fond of...
and on that note, thanks for reading, if you'd like to talk more about this topic my emails are always open. Have a wonderful day!
Ebony x
