A panoramic image shows a wide perspective. They capture a large amount of scenery, more specifically, natural landscapes. Very few cameras have an automatic button to press to create a panoramic image, so you have to do it manually. You do this by setting the camera up (either with a tripod or by hand) and you move the frame along, but you leave a bit of an overlap to connect them in photoshop.

David Hockney

David Hockney is a British artist who became well known for his creative work in photography during the 1970s and 1980s. He made photo collages called “Joiners”. These collages showed different views and moments at the same time, instead of just one fixed image like normal photos. Hockney wanted to show how people really see the world. He also used tools like photocopiers to make pictures in new ways, and later did the same with iPhones.

David Hockney’s Joiner Photos

David Hockney’s Joiner Photos are picture collages he created in the 1980s by combining many small photos. He used Polaroid and 35mm photos to create a larger image, similar to putting together a puzzle. These photos don’t show just one single view, instead, they show different angles and moments all at the same time, by taking lots of images in different positions of the same area. Hockney wanted to show how people actually see the world (piece by piece) as our eyes move around a scene.

My panoramic Images

I decided to recreate Hockney’s panoramic images by taking an image and slighting moving the camera to create a longer version of the image. I uploaded these images to photoshop and placed them side by side using the tools that photoshop provides in order to do this. However, at the end I had to crop these images as they were uneven and some areas would be shorter than others.

I prefer the first image to the second, as I feel like it presents the landscape in a better way, with no distractions or anything blocking it. Unlike the first image, the second one’s lighting is dimmer, and the building on the far right distracts the viewer from focusing on the main part of the image.