Panoramic Landscapes

A Panoramic image is a technique of taking a photo of what’s in front of you but capturing it at a wide angle. The difference between a wide angle photo and a Panoramic is that a Panoramic usually consists of multiple photos merged together that form a long wide angle strip. This wide strip photo would then show you a expansive view of your shot like with a Landscape it would show the full scenery around you. Wide angle photography in the other hand are different as it typically uses a wide lens that allows you to take a wide angle picture, however wide angle photos have a limit and they cannot capture the amount of detail and area that a panoramic image can achieve.

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How do I create a Panoramic Landscape?

To create a Panoramic Landscape you can either take a photo of the landscape with your camera that has a Panoramic mode or if your camera does not contain that mode then the traditional method would be to take pictures of your landscape but making sure you take it from all angles from left to right to top to bottom, making sure you leave enough room for the images to overlap. Once you take all these pictures you can insert them into a program like Photoshop or Lightroom and there should be an option to Photo merge them into a Panoramic image. Then you just adjust the images and edit them to your preference and then you should have a Panoramic Landscape.

David Hockney

David Hockney was a painter and a photographer who was well known for his work and was considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Around the early 20th century he decided to experiment with joiner photographs, these photographs consisted of usually a place or a subject that had photos taken close up instead of far away. By taking multiple close up photos (around 700+ photos) it would then allow him to merge them together to create a full photograph. The difference from a joiner photograph and a full photograph is that joiners allow you to capture details you would never spot on the first time of taking your images. So by taking multiple photos over a span of a few days close up and capturing all the little details and then merging all the photos together you end up creating a piece that not only looks unique but also contains every small detail that is easily viewable which can also make your image look more appealing compared to just a regular image taken from further away where you wouldn’t usually spot those small things.

Landscape photoshoot

Rural Jersey:

During this photoshoot I explored Jersey’s rural farming landscape. I took my photos during sunset which heightened the dramatic lighting. The strong light of the sun reflected on the plastic sheets that covered the fields, this added light to both the top and bottom of the frame, creating more balance in the photo.

Exposure:

The strong sunlight allowed for a quick shutter speed. so the sky had a balanced exposure. This fast shutter speed meant that any areas in the foreground (not covered in plastic) were under-exposed, enhancing the dramatic outcome.

Angle / Perspective:

During the photoshoot, I tested different angles to adjust the perspective of the images. During this process, the aperture was adjusted to adjust the depth of field.

details about jersey farming

Jersey’s countryside is a place of beauty, recreation and culture. It is blessed with some of the deepest, most fertile soils, and our climate is perfect for growing most crops. Our beautiful countryside flourishes with wild flowers, and our famous Jersey cows graze on lush green fields for the majority of the year. We know that dairy farming in Jersey has a positive impact on the environment and countryside. And the dairy industry in Jersey is committed to adopting good environmental practice in its operational and capital investment decisions and to operate at the highest levels of efficiency. The total area of land under cultivation at around 36,500 vergées this represents 56% of the island area with its 10,000 farms.

Raw Photos:

Photoshoot 1

Photoshoot 2

Selection process:

I starred my favourite images these were images I thought were clear and had a great contrast between light and darks whilst also being the perfect angle.

Strongest Photos:

Creative editing

Vignette:

Panorama

What is a Panorama ?

Panoramic photography is a type of photography, using special equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio, like the familiar letterbox format in wide-screen video.

Examples

350+ Panorama Pictures [HD] | Download Free Images & Stock Photos on  Unsplash
How to Do Panoramic Landscape Photography with the Gear You Have - Digital  Photo Mentor
Panoramic Photography Collection of Fine Art Prints | Jess Lee Photography
50,000+ City Panorama Pictures | Download Free Images on Unsplash

David Hockney and Joiner photos

What are Joiner photos ?

David Hockney, a seminal figure in the Pop Art movement, revolutionised visual art with his inventive technique of creating joiners. This method, which involves piecing together a mosaic of photographs to form a cohesive image, challenges and transcends traditional perspectives in both photography and painting.

Examples

How to do joiner photography
David Hockney: Joiner Photographs | Pima County Public Library |  BiblioCommons
Abstract Joiner Photography (David hockney) + Responses | 2017 Photo AS Blog

David Hockney

Who is he ?

David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

David Hockney Paintings, Prints & Artwork | Unofficial Fansite

Examples of his photos

1982
Hockney Inspired Photomontages - My Art Lesson

His most famous photo

How to do joiner photography

This photo was made by 700 individual photos which where stitched together, each image captures close up detail and has been placed next to each other to create a bigger, detailed image.

panoramic and joiner landscapes

panoramic landscapes:

A horizontally extended visual representation providing a wide view of a landscape or other scene, in photography made by joining a series of shots or by using a wide-angle lens, and in film by pivoting the camera horizontally from a fixed place.

Advantages

There is a wider angle of view, so you can more of the landscape. eg, foreground, background and the middle ground.

There is compositional freedom, which means as we can assemble the resulting panorama from as many frames as we like.

The quality of the panorama is much higher compared to the single shots from wide-angle lenses in particular, as we avoid all the aforementioned negatives of wide-angle lenses.

Disadvantages

There needs to be a high level of skill due to the difficultly of taking panoramas. The photographer should already be quite experienced, as they have to cover a wide range of activities.

 The image does not display the fine anatomic detail.

There are compositional limitations. Even though wide-angle lenses can cover a really wide area, they are still not without limit. We are then limited by what we can or cannot fit into the lens’ frame.

David Hockey

David Hockney, a seminal figure in the Pop Art movement, revolutionised visual art with his inventive technique of creating joiners. This method, which involves piecing together a mosaic of photographs to form a cohesive image, challenges and transcends traditional perspectives in both photography and painting. By fragmenting and then reassembling the visual field, Hockney’s joiners disrupt conventional viewpoints, inviting a deeper exploration into the intricacies of perception and representation. This introduction sets the stage to dive into the impact of Hockney’s joiners, underscoring their significance in reshaping contemporary art and photography, and illuminating their influence on artists and photographers alike

His joiner photos:

Hockney’s joiners are a fascinating exploration of perspective, time, and space through the medium of photography. This technique involves the meticulous assembly of multiple photographs to create a single, composite image.

The best way to do this is to use a medium focal length lens 50-100 mm, stand in one place, lock the exposure if possible or set the camera to manual so the exposure does not change and photograph the scene. You might start at the bottom left – sweep right then move up and sweep left – and continue until the entire object is captured. Be sure to overlap your images.

Here is my own panoramic photos i have taken

these photos were taken at Harve des par

To edit them, I used Lightroom and went to photo-photo merge – panorama. I then waited for it to automatically merge all the photos I selected together to make a panorama photo.

Image Analysis

There are different types of lighting due to over 700 images in this one photo, but I think it mostly natural outside lighting. You cant tell the aperture because there are many images combined.

‘Pear blossom Highway’ is showing a crossroad in a very wide open space, which you only get a sense of in the western United States. [The] picture was not just about a crossroads, but about us driving around. I’d had three days of driving and being the passenger. The driver and the passenger see the road in different ways.

When you drive you read all the road signs, to check where you are driving. When you’re the passenger, you don’t, you can decide to look where you want.

The littered cans and bottles and the meandering line where the pavement ends and the sand begins point to the interruption of the desert landscape by the roads cutting through it and the imprint of careless travellers

David Hockney described his circumstances leading to the creation of this photocollage of the scenic Pear blossom Highway in the north of Los Angeles. His detailed collage reveals the more observations of a road trip.

Panoramic Landscapes

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how to make –

David Hockney Joiner Photo-collage, similar style

examples –

David Hockney: Joiner Photographs | Mid-Ark Regional Library System |  BiblioCommons

photo analysis –

panoramic landscapes

Photographers photographed a landscape in sections and lined their daguerreotypes side-by-side to create one long print, a panoramic photo. They used this technique to document history, and many antique landscapes are incredibly collectible today.

Daniel Wretham a panoramic photographer said:

shooting these ultra wide panoramic pictures really is a joy because they are such high resolution and really show off the image to its full potential, plus they are very forgiving for images in case you want to use different ratios and take sections of the image out to use as individual pictures, for want of a better expression it has the potential to be 3-4 different prints from one image.

joiner photos – David Hockney

David Hockney is an English painter and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Hockney is also gay he came out when he was 23 years old.

This photo is made up of over 700 separate photos showing all the details he missed on his first trip Hockney travelled up and down this road multiple times to get all these photos. he thinks of his photos as art work not just photographs.

My Photos

I took these panoramic photos at Havre des pas whilst on a walk, its a combination of multiple images taken in a line from left to right. I then printed them out and laid them out in different ways on white card and took a photo of them. The last one is my favourite one because I think it looks more composed and neat whilst also showing the wider view.

Panoramic Photos

Definition

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. An image showing a field of view approximating, or greater than, that of the human eye – about 160° by 75°. This generally means it has an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as it is high.

Image stitching

Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image.

Image stitching algorithms create the high resolution photo-mosaics used to produce today’s digital maps and satellite photos. They also come bundled with most digital cameras currently being sold, and can be used to create beautiful ultra wide-angle panoramas.

Other major issues to deal with are the presence of parallax, lens distortion, scene motion, and exposure differences. In a non-ideal real-life case, the intensity varies across the whole scene, and so does the contrast and intensity across frames.

Joiner photos

Joiner photography is a photographic technique wherein multiple pictures are assembled into one. There are two types of joiner photography, photographic collages and Polaroid collages.

You stand in one place and take photos all around you. With a ‘panorama’ you simply swivel and take from left to right or vice versa. To record a greater field of vision you work both up and down and across.

David Hockney

David Hockney, a seminal figure in the Pop Art movement, revolutionised visual art with his inventive technique of creating joiners. This method, which involves piecing together a mosaic of photographs to form a cohesive image, challenges and transcends traditional perspectives in both photography and painting.

By fragmenting and then reassembling the visual field, Hockney’s joiners disrupt conventional viewpoints, inviting a deeper exploration into the intricacies of perception and representation. This introduction sets the stage to dive into the impact of Hockney’s joiners, underscoring their significance in reshaping contemporary art and photography, and illuminating their influence on artists and photographers alike.

Image analysis

Pearblossom Highway, 11-18th April 1986, #2

David Hockney’s ‘Pearblossom Highway, 11-18th April 1986, #2’ is a photographic collage that chronicles his road trip on a California highway, CA 138. The artwork is composed of 750 color photographs, offering both the driver’s and passenger’s perspective of their journey.

The image reveals a seemingly mundane scene of a highway with desert vegetation but in Hockney’s interpretation becomes an exciting and vibrant artistic creation. His decision to use hundreds of photos offers the viewer multiple viewpoints by disrupting traditional camera angles; this creates an unusual experience for viewers accustomed to seeing only one fixed angle.

David Hockney described the circumstances leading to the creation of this photo collage of the scenic Pearblossom Highway north of Los Angeles. His detailed collage reveals the more mundane observations of a road trip. The littered cans and bottles and the meandering line where the pavement ends and the sand begins point to the interruption of the desert landscape by the roads cutting through it and the imprint of careless travelers.

“Pearblossom Highway shows a crossroads in a very wide open space, which you only get a sense of in the western United States. . . . [The] picture was not just about a crossroads, but about us driving around. I’d had three days of driving and being the passenger. The driver and the passenger see the road in different ways. When you drive you read all the road signs, but when you’re the passenger, you don’t, you can decide to look where you want. And the picture dealt with that: on the right-hand side of the road it’s as if you’re the driver, reading traffic signs to tell you what to do and so on, and on the left-hand side it’s as if you’re a passenger going along the road more slowly, looking all around. So the picture is about driving without the car being in it.”

romanticism

Landscapes

Landscape photography commonly involves daylight photography of natural features of land, sky and waters, at a distance—though some landscapes may involve subjects in a scenic setting nearby, even close-up, and sometimes at night.

Ansel Adams

Romanticism

Romanticism in art and photography is about focusing on strong emotions, nature, and individual experience. It highlights beauty, imagination, and sometimes the mysterious or exotic. Think of dramatic landscapes, powerful moments, and emotional expressions. It’s less about strict realism and more about capturing the feeling of a scene. It involves romanticising certain things like nature or a certain lifestyle. For example, in photography, you might romanticise a landscape by capturing the best scenes only and perhaps putting a feeling of otherworldyness/ nostalgia. When you romanticise something, you make it seem better than it really is; in a way, everything humans think about is romanticised: the grass is always greener on the other side. An example of life being romanticised in our minds is thinking about the life of being an underground artist in New York (think Basquiat) is highly romanticised and the image of it looks really appealing/romantic, but in reality it is quite a hard life to live, and that feeling of romanticism that you get when looking at images isn’t necessarily how that person living that life might be experiencing it.​

romantisicim fact file

  • Romanticism placed particular emphasis on emotion, horror, awe, terror and apprehension. Emotion and feeling were central not only to the creation of the work, but also in how it should be read.​
  • Romanticism can also have a link with landscape and nature . Landscapes became subjects in their own right and were often charged with symbolism. For romantic artists, nature is a source of inspiration and escape, a refuge from the tumult of the modern world.​
  • Who: artist William Blake and the Spanish painter Francisco Goya have been given the name “fathers” of Romanticism by various scholars for their works’ emphasis on subjective vision, the power of the imagination.​
  • What: an artistic movement marked by the emphasis on imagination and emotions ​
  • Where: romantisicm started In western Europe around the 18th century at this time the artistic and cultural movement was being revived (Neoclassicism)​
  • How: With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.​
  • Why: Romanticism was born as a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The Romanticist movement celebrated rebellion, sensation, emotion, subjectivity, and individuality and it rejected tradition, reason, rationality, and authority.

The importance of the British painters JMW Turner and John Constable

English romantic painter and water colour specialist , known for is romantic paintings that portray colourful imagery and imaginative landscapes. Joseph Mallord William born 23rd of April 1775 inspired modern art by incorporating a view of impossibility into his paintings by inviting unrealistic colouring and faded scenery to give a sense of romanticism

Sublime

  • In the critical literature, “the Romantic sublime” refers to the mind’s transcendence of a natural and/or social world that finally cannot fulfill its desire. Revealed in the moment of the sublime is that the mind is not wholly of the world, but this revelation may be triggered by a particular setting in the world.​
  • The sublime as defined by The Tate is : “Theory developed by Edmund Burke in the mid eighteenth century, where he defined sublime art as art that refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.”​
  • The sublime is in most creative subject areas; photography, fine art, film, writing, poetry and many more.

Romanticism

 

Fact File

  • Romanticism began in the 18th century​
  • 3 key elements to romanticism in art is imagination, emotion and individualism​
  • It is the contrast to rationalism and order​
  • It was originally inspired by the political and economic atmosphere during 1798 with inspirations such as the French revolution evolving​
  • In modern times realism has taken over from romanticism​
  • Jean Jack Rousseau is the “founder” of romanticism

 

The Sublime

The Sublime is a concept which emerged in the seventeenth century and is art that’s supposed to inspire awe and wonder. It is defined as “a quality of greatness or grandeur that inspires awe and wonder.” – according to https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime#:~:text=The%20sublime%20has%20long%20been,relation%20to%20the%20natural%20landscape.

JMW Turner

  • Turner is a famous English painter born April 23 1775 in London who became known as “the painter of light” for his talent of creating incredibly skilled landscape paintings able to capture light at different times of the day and in different settings using bright and vibrant colours which happened to be because of his un-diagnosed colour blindness and therefore wasn’t exaggerating the colours.​
  • He began attending the Royal Academy of Art at 15 years old where he first exhibited his Fishermen at Sea oil painting in 1796.​
  • Turners last words were “The Sun is God” before he died of cholera in 1851.

John Constable

Constable was an English landscaper born on June 11th 1776 in Suffolk. He was known to be the one who revolutionised the genre of landscape painting. Constable focused on painting the surroundings of his home and once write to a friend “I should paint my own places best” “painting is but another word for feeling”​

.Though in modern times his paintings are extremely valuable and popular he was never financially successful in his lifetime however his work was popular in France, and was only elected to the Royal Academy of Art at age 52. ​

He then died at age 60 in 1837 in London of coronary artery disease.

Terms and Words Associated

  • Apostrophe​
  • Glorification​
  • Nature​
  • Awareness and acceptance of emotions​
  • Celebration of artistic creativity and imagination
  • realism
  • idealism
  • enlightenment
  • classism
  • neo-romanticism
  • symbolysm
  • affinity for the natural world

Timeline of Landscape Art And Photography

The earliest known of cave art was found to be from 40,000 years ago so art has dated back to the very first humans.

A work during the bronze age around 1627, found in Santorini a Greek island preserved under volcanic ash until 1967. At this time Greece was ruled by Ottoman Empire also called the Turkish empire who was Islamic believing.

The renascence began in the 14th century Italy.

The Renaissance meaning rebirth was the first big movement to influence on landscape art. The renaissance was a movement to revive the Greek and Roman philosophical way of thinking. It encouraged people to express themselves and encouraged individuality and new ideas instead of sticking to the way things have always been done.

The Renaissance came after The Black Death killed half of Europe’s population which left business owners with little to no competition meaning the economy grew especially in Italy known as The Cultural Capitol of Europe at the time.

Ideals and attitudes towards the church and medical knowledge began to change, many began to question their authority after so many died during the black death despite appealing to god such as flogging and even following medical advise like cleansing the air by wearing masks filled with nice smelling herbs to combat miasma. This new attitude and encouragement of questioning was also expressed through art and the boundaries of what art was. Realism in art was widely developed and realistic drawings of nature and humans became popular.

During the renaissance time period artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo rose to fame. To this day biblical interpretations from Leonardo da Vinci are still famous such as The Last Supper.

After the renaissance during the 17th to 18th century was the Age Of Enlightenment where Romanticism took off with artists being inspired by the French Revolution. Society began to emphasise on emotion key artists such as JMW Turner and John Constable as mentioned before lived through this time. Many political changes were made through this era and attitudes and way of thinking changed. Science began to proceed and slavery was abolished. People began to idealise individuality and connection with nature. The Sublime began with this thought process as people began to explore beauty past religion and find a godly aspect to nature especially in the UK as the rules to religion were changing constantly due to the arguments between Catholics and protestants. Art like the dramatic style of Rococo architecture became more popular.

The earliest known landscape photograph was taken during the 19th century between 1826 and 1827 by Nicephore Niepce a Frenchman and inventor who invented the Pyréolophore an internal-combustion engine. The image was taken using a camera obscura out of the window of his estate based in Saint-Lop-de-Varenees, Burgundy, France.

Carleton E Watkins born on November 11th in 1829 New York began his career in photography at age 5 when he began his apprenticeship in a portrait studio. Throughout his photography career he became known as one of the greatest photographers of the American West

Watkins was unimpressed with the performance of his regular camera as it could not capture the entirety of the landscapes he was photographing so in 1861 Watkins hired a cabinet worker to create a massive camera so he could use mammoth sized negatives.

After Romanticism came Modernism from 1900 to 1930 before the great depression began. Modernism culture rejected many traditions and looked to fundamentally rethink the world especially after and during World War One. Many political events were taking place such as the Russian revolution and the League of Nations was formed however almost all countries had faced epic losses within the economy was declining and the population had too.

Other changes were happening too, including in America the roaring 20’s. Women’s rights and opinions on gender roles began to shift however crime was rising. Artists searched for new way to express themselves and their opinions on the world without the constraints of realism.

Artists such as Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock and Vincent Van Gough all arose and are still famous to this day. Modernism art often uses very bright and vibrant colours and experimented with abstract art.

My Work

ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOGHRAPHER

Ansel Adams born in 1902 was an American landscape photographer. Adams was a rebellious child and was pulled from school at age 12 and before finding his passion for photography in 1927, Ansel was a successful pianist and musician. Ansel Adams took photos all through he 1920s where he was a part of the Sierra Club, An organisation who’s mission is “to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.”

Adams believed in “true photography” where he would use the highest resolution available and full tonal range and assisted in founding the group f/64 in 1932 in California. The group also believed in Ansel’s’ mindset surrounding photography and took images of the American landscape including mountains and lakes. Ansel Adams also partnered with Fred Archer created “The Zone System” a way of representing the different tonal gradient in a black and white picture. The Zone System is still used today

The popularity of Adams work has only increased since his death in 1984.

Technical

The lighting is natural and the type of camera used was a Large Format Camera so Ansel would’ve had to use a tripod to steady it as he would’ve needed to have a longer shutter speed to capture the landscape in such high resolution. Large Format photography consists of images within the 9 cm × 12 cm (3.5 in × 4.7 in) range or bigger. The view finder is large and Ansel would’ve needed a portable dark room as well as multiple films per image however in modern times it is possible to make large format cameras digital.

Ansel Adams sets his contrast high to dramatize the images.

Visual

Though coloured photography was available to Adams it didn’t become common until the 1960’s and would’ve been a time consuming and difficult process therefore all of his images were in black and white. There was a range of tones within Adams work as he was good at using The Zone Method himself.

This image also used leading lines to draw the eye to the dramatic sight if the mountain and add depth to the image giving it a 3D concept.

Contextual

This image was taken in the Grand Tenton National Park in Wyoming, America and was of the Tetons and the Snake River and was taken in 1942 so Ansel Adams would’ve had around 20 years experience while taking this.

Conceptual

I believe the idea behind this is to showcase the beauty of the landscapes to the American public to encourage them to want to preserve the nature through national parks ect.

Technical

Visual

Cotextual

Conceptual