[Leica] IMG: large panorama installation

[lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (lluisripollphotography)]

Nice! Good work from you and Steve!
Lluis

> El 19 febr 2016, a les 1:10, Adam Bridge <abridge683 at fastmail.com> va 
> escriure:
> 
> Yesterday Steve Barbour generously gave of his time (and risked life and 
> limb) to help me install the largest panorama I have ever attempted. It?s 
> a morning shot from our camp on the Serengeti in Tanzania. 
> 
> Just for reference the installation is 175? wide and 40? tall. That?s 4.4 
> m by 1.0 m for the non-Imperial world. It?s comprised of, I think, 8 
> separate shots with a Sony A7ii, combined and edited in Photoshop (out of 
> Lightroom) and printed in three segments on an Epson 9900 using Epson 
> Premium Luster (270). I could have printed the entire image but I felt the 
> chances of having something go wrong with the printing were too great.
> 
> I was faced with how to display it. I thought, originally, to make a 
> triptych of equally spaced panels, but that broke the content in the wrong 
> places. So I made what was essentially a scale model in Photoshop and 
> divided the panels in various ways. I think I had a version with 9 
> different panels. Fortunately my wife talked me out of that.
> 
> Technically the largest panel I could make had a maximum dimension of 8 
> feet (2.4 m) because that?s how large sheets of gatorboard are made. So I 
> elected to make three different panels and divide them asymmetrically 
> along the horizontal.
> 
> I had the panels mounted in Sacramento and then when Steve was free we 
> took an hour or so, a few ladders, and some gulping, to put them into 
> place. I used 3M Command Strips to afix the images to the painted wall 
> surface.
> 
> So, here?s a link to how it looks:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/2015-Tanzania-Service-Trip/On-Safari/i-7QrXTH7/A>
> 
> I am a little unhappy with the way the lights cast shadows against the 
> wall behind the image?s gaps. I?m thinking that I can slide very black 
> paper behind them to reduce that shadow effect. The panels are off-set by 
> .5 in (1.27 cm). I can have gatorboard fabricated to fit between the 
> segments which would eliminate the shadow. I may try both over time 
> between some of the panels to see how it works out.
> 
> The lighting comes from below because, well, that?s the way it had to. 
> Although I had envisioned a large panorama for this space I knew that in 
> the sort run it would have individual prints so I needed flexibility.
> 
> I?d appreciate any thoughts on this. Seriously. If you mount large works, 
> or if you have seen similar works displayed I?d love to know what might be 
> a better way.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
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