10s Panorama

Photo 1 David Hockney

Landscape Panorama- You are going to take a series of photos of a single topic in a side to side, or top to bottom sequence so that they can be stitched together.

The scene is up to you, but I want to to experiment in a David Hockney-esk way. See photo 1. Hockney uses multiple photos to create a scene, but not of the photos have the same exposure, or the same range of focus. Also, if you look closely, you will see that he even changes his position slightly to create optical illusions- notice the tree, you can see through it.

David Hockney is painter from Great Britain who migrated to U.S.A. in the 1960's and found the land so grand (particularily the Grand Canyon) that it could not be photographed in one shot. Also he did not like the how the wide angle lens would distort the scene. So he decided to photograph a scene in a series and join it together. He called this collaging process "joiners".

1. First explore the work of David Hockney, find 2 panorama/"joiners" and put them in your journal/blog.

2. Then take multiple (9+) photos of a scene in a linear/layered/connected way that match up- try at least three different locations.

3. Download/develop and create a contact sheet (27-40 images). You can shoot in a sequence where your contact sheet forms your panorama- shoot left to right, 5 across 2 or more rows. See below example. Easier if you shoot in landscape format.

4. And then either using Photoshop, or scissors and glue assemble your (9+ photos) panorama- each image 3.5 x 5 post to your journal.

5. Have fun, be creative.

Contact sheet panorama