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06 July 2006

Ask Mecha: How did he do this. There's an art exhibit by a chap called Bill Major at work at the moment. Whole streets appear to be photographed, but in many situations, the streets are too narrow to be photographed in the way that they're shown. [More:] The linked photoset includes two photos of the same building. The normal photo shows the narrowness of the streets, but the other shows it as if it were photographed from several meters away. Although the skys are fake, I can see no obvious photo-shopping or patching. It's almost as if the guy has this HUGE wide angle lense. So, photography mavens, how does he do it? (Apologies for the poorness of my photographs)
Seanyboy, this one definitely looks patched to me. See how the sky changes in the middle? I actually see a line. but maybe it's an artifact of reflection on the glass?
posted by taz 06 July | 03:59
The skys are false. It's the main body of the photo I can't see any patching on. The buildings all appear to be the same shade. Shadows are inconclusive.

I guess it must be patched though. Even so, how would you do it. Put your camera on a big pole and move it around the building?
posted by seanyboy 06 July | 04:09
Er, yes. You did say that, didn't you? :0 My reading skills R AWESOME today!
posted by taz 06 July | 04:12
Maybe he's using a panoramic camera. the camera. See photo examples ...
(more? go to miklasnjor.com click on " photography: faces · dox · ideas" find "horizont" to the right in the menu that now appears below.
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posted by dabitch 06 July | 04:12
Well, according to this description of his exhibition, he takes hundreds of pictures of each building and then patches them together.
posted by Daniel Charms 06 July | 04:17
Daniel Charms: I'm blind. I swear, I read that...
I guess my big pole theory (although strange) is possibly correct.

Plus - kudos on the google skills. I didn't find anything until I started adding +"Dean Clough" to my search terms. Information you didn't have. *kudos*
posted by seanyboy 06 July | 04:40
Big Pole Theory would be an awesome band name.
posted by iconomy 06 July | 05:47
Double bill: Big Pole Theory with The Final Girl.

A couple of years ago I saw TigerDirect selling software for doing photomosaics that would stitch together lots of photos by mapping identical points on different photos and then applying projective geometry to keep straight lines. It works best if the camera is on a tripod and then panned and tilted with 50% overlap so every picture overlaps eight others.

I think this is the same way the Mac virtual reality pictures operate.
posted by warbaby 06 July | 09:12
You can take pictures like this on a single negative with a rotating slit panoramic camera.
posted by Mitheral 06 July | 14:56
Autostitch does a good job of stitching together lots of images, and it's free. I've made some pretty wild panoramas, even taking the pics while holding the camera in my hand.
posted by tomble 07 July | 01:10
MeCha Food Advisor: || Fucking fuck Javascript. I hate the entire World Wide Web

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