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This Month's Photograph
I
took this photograph in Acadia National Park in Maine. It is a
composite of six vertical photographs. Each of the photographs was
carefully aligned using a tripod and a Really Right Stuff (RRS)
panoramic head. In post production, I assembled the photograph using
Photomerge, a panoramic editing option contained in Photoshop.
I have been interested in photo compositing since I first saw the
photographs of Jerry Uelsmann inn the 1970s. I first used the technique
to alter images and make them look very different from traditional
photographs. I now use it to create both non-traditional-looking
photographs and very realistic stitched photographs, as in this example.
I employ compositing techniques in a wide range of projects, including
my Repieced Multiples, Autostiched Photographs, and RRS Panoramics.
Notable Photographer
Sakaguchi Tomoyuki
Historically
night photography begins with Alfred Steiglitz, as so much of art
photography does. By 1970 Jerry Burchard and Gary Ruble had introduced
night photography as a principal way of making photographs. In recent
times, this process has been greatly accelerated by Matthew Pillsbury
and Gregory Crewdson. It is safe to say that night photography has now
become a mainstream style of photography. What makes Tomoyuki's work
striking is that his photographs are taken in suburban Tokyo, a place
few foreign tourists have ever seen, in neighborhoods that look quite
different from American suburbs-shown in the surreal ambient light of
night.
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