Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Impressive, in every sense of the word. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 19 Feb 2016, at 01:10, Adam Bridge <abridge683 at fastmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information