Panography
Des Voeux Road and Pedder Street, Hong Kong
Today I decided to try my hand at panography — a wide-angle picture composed of several individual photos. I had seen a tutorial on it on Photojojo a while ago but couldn’t do it because I didn’t have Photoshop. I picked up Photoshop Elements yesterday so today I went out with my camera to take some shots.
I stood on the corner at Des Voeux Road and started snapping away. I took 27 photos, but only 11 made it into my actual panograph so it’s rather incomplete as it stands now — I hadn’t realized how much memory it required to work with so many photos at once. But considering it was my first attempt and I’m still learning how to work Photoshop, I’m pretty happy with the result. I’m definitely looking forward to trying it again as soon as I free up some space on my hard drive.
October 6, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Holy crap is that friggin’ awesome or what? You just picked up photoshop, and you can already do this? You really are a genius, Cathy. I bow down to your geniusness.
October 6, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Alicia, you’re too sweet and you give me way too much credit! It wasn’t that hard on Photoshop — after resizing the photos, I just plopped them on a canvas and rotated them until they fit.
Here’s the tutorial if anyone’s interested:
http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/panographies/
October 6, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Thats amazing. One more thing to add to my list of things to be jealous of. “Great photo skills” I will put it between “Super snarky” and “Hot”
October 6, 2008 at 9:39 pm
OMG you guys, like she doesn’t already have an ego! HEHEHE
Yeah good job or something. I guess it’s interesting. Maybe even really cool but MAYBE NOT.
October 7, 2008 at 1:50 pm
You are one dedicated chick Cathy! My procrastinating self applauds the fantastic effort. I can totally envision this in poster size, and as a series. A+!