The photos above
are panoramas (of approximately 150-180 degrees) made up of three frames from a digital camera, shot at wide angle (~20mm) with as small an aperture as available light and a ~1/60th shutter speed will allow.
The images begin as 8 megapixel jpgs from a Canon Powershot SX100 IS. They are stitched together with a free program from Canon - called PhotoStitch - and then I use Photoshop to adjust contrast and fix obvious glitches along the seams of the frames.
(The small black and white photos within the articles on the rest of this site are single frames from the same camera, converted to B/W with Photoshop; click the magnifier icon to enlarge in color).
But I like the unusual effects that the panoramas reveal beyond the fact that they show more of landscape than a single frame. You’ll notice that fence lines curve and clouds seem to arch over mountain ranges; those effects are from the distortion of the wide angle lens. Water differs in appearance - blurred in the middle of the image and not in motion at one side - as a result of the shutter speed, which was faster or slower when each of the three frames was shot. And obviously, different frames have different contrast gradiants and lighting angles that show a change from full light to shadows at the edges of a panorama.
The images rotate randomly via a PHP script, so if you reload the page or go to another tab or link on the site you’ll see a new image. Or click on an image below for a “Lightbox” slideshow; click anywhere outside of the image to quit.
