I began making panoramic photographs in 1974 after seeing the work of
Art Sinsabaugh.
I liked how he used a long horizontal frame to create a unique type of
wide angle photograph. Sinsabaugh used a huge "banquet" view camera that
shot 12" x 20" film. Long ago I tried to buy a camera like this and
found it was not possible. Since then, I have tried a variety of
approaches to achieve the same effect-including pasting darkroom
photographs together, using cameras with manufactured and custom-made
masks, working with a variety of panoramic stitching programs, and
employing sweep panoramic. I currently work with the panoramic stitching
applications Autostitch, Calico and Photomerge, as well as manual
stitching in Photoshop and cameras utilizing Sweep Panorama firmware. I
created this photograph using a digital mirrorless camera mounted on a
tripod with a Really Right Stuff Panoramic head and editing it with
Photomerge.
