wwp@yahoogroups.com:
On a boat at sunset
Caroling Geary 2006-Sep-19 10:59:00
Instead of trying to get a smooth experience of being on a boat at
sunset, you could try to make a pano of the rough sea experience and
the changes in time. Have you ever seen the futurist paintings of
Francis Picabia? Or the famous "Nude Descending a Staircase"? Here's
a quote I plucked from the web: "The movement we want to reproduce on
canvas will no longer be one single, fixed moment of universal
dynamism. Quite simply, it will be dynamic sensation itself. For
everything moves, runs, changes rapidly. No outline is ever still
before our eyes: it appears and disappears constantly." So they
painted the image in movement. For your pano you could montage the
images together and forget about trying to create an artificial
experience of calm.
In fact this idea helps me a lot. Transportation is essentially
movement, hard to convey in a static medium. How about transporting
something around the panorama? With centrifugal force?
If you took a pano at sunset, the seam could be a band of vertical
light and dark. Start with the light, and in each choppy photo around
the 360 degrees the light dims to the dark band. So the pano reflects
your actual experience in time.
I say break the rigid mold of seamless stitching in your mind.
On Sep 18, 2006, at 9:55 PM, Francis Fougere wrote:
> Yes folks this is why I shared my project ideas here to get a heads
> up on
> the pitfalls of my folly.
Caroling Geary, www.wholeo.net