Panoramic Photography: From Composition and Exposure to Final Exhibition
Panoramic Photography: From Composition and Exposure to Final Exhibition
By Arnaud Frich
Publisher: Focal Press
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: 2007-04-24
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0240809203
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780240809205
Binding: Paperback
It has never been easier to make panoramas--both in terms of the new lightweight equipment and the spectacular quality of the final image output. New vistas concerning this unique way to see the world and express oneself abound in Panoramic Photography: From Composition and Exposure to Final Exhibition. Written by one of the world's pre-eminent panoramic photographers, the author, Arnaud Frich, provides diagrams to explain the technical details involved in various shots. Long on inspiration, you will find beautiful images by the author, as well as by Benoît Ancelot, François-Xavier Bouchart, Franck Charel, Macduff Everton, David J. Osborn, and many others. Camera equipment examples and a list of suppliers make this book a valuable resource for all panoramic photographers. Inside you will find all the information you need to create your perfect panorama!
Only with Panoramic Photography can you:
*Explore flatback and rotating panoramic cameras and learn how swing-lens and rotational cameras work
*Observe how camera choice affects the image and final composition
*Learn the joining (or "stitching") method for assembling photographs with the Realvis Stitcher and Panavue ImageAssembler
*Archive and store original negatives and digital files, as well as distribute panoramic images over the Internet
Summary: Thoughtful introduction to panoramic photography
Rating: 4
I think this book deserves better than the few perfunctory reviews offered here. To my mind French photographer Arnaud Frich has put together a serious, comprehensive guide to taking panoramic photographs and this deserves recognition.
The material is organised in seven chapters. The first chapter introduces the subject by defining the panoramic image (in terms of its aspect ratio), briefly surveying its place in the history of photography and by providing a general overview of the different ways in which a photographic, panoramic image can be created.
At one level panorama photography is just a specific application of the photographic craft in general and it follows the same basic rules. This is certainly true when a panorama image is created by either cropping a picture with a more traditional aspect ratio (a square or a 2:3 ratio) or by combining (`stitching') a series of conventional photos into a picture that exceeds the 1:2 aspect ratio. However, panoramic pictures can also be created by specially designed cameras - flatback and swing-lens or rotational cameras - the specifics of which dictate a certain modus operandi (hence the attention to hardware in this book is certainly justified). The particularities of both kinds of cameras are explored in the three following chapters.
Chapter 2 focuses on framing and composition, Chapter 3 on taking pictures specifically with flatback cameras (e.g. Hasselblad XPan) and Chapter 4 zooms in on swing-lens and rotational cameras. The latter type often covers a very wide angle of view (typically 120
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