For my project, I wanted to construct what’s commonly referred to as a ‘panograph’
The objective is to arrange and overlap many smaller pictures in order to form a larger image
Panograph of Potsdamer Platz by Mareen Fischinger
For weeks, I waited for the perfect conditions to capture a good panograph of Alfred University
For weeks, the days were cold and gray, mostly raining or snowing
Finally, I took a road trip to my visit family for Thanksgiving in Charlottesville, North Carolina
And finally, just as I reached my destination, I stepped out of my car to look out on an amazing sunset
The Shot
This is a 3-frame panorama, meaning that it consists of 3 separate pictures stitched together in Adobe Photoshop.
Using an HDR processing program (Photomatix Pro) to get the rich colors and tones in the sky and clouds required me
to take 3 different exposures per frame (one underexposed, one overexposed, and one properly exposed).
Combining these three exposures allowed me to get a properly exposed fram throughout the light spectrum.
In simpler terms, it allowed me to properly expose the highlights, midtones and shadows through out the picture; something most people find difficult when photographing sunsets.
Finally, this meant that the final image was composed of 9 separate exposures, processed into 3 tonemapped images, then stitched together to form the final panorama.
Preparing and presenting it required me to split the image into 10 smaller images, each 5 by 7 inches
Finally, printing out these separate pictures and arranging them and mounting them on matteboard produced the final image
Nanograph
