A multiple-image panoramic photograph, done at dusk, just when all the light levels of the various sources are in balance. I had long driven past this interesting building, thinking it needed to be photographed in an equally interesting way.
This company does some very interesting things. They build climate-controlled facilities of all sizes and types, designed for very specialized purposes. Some of them include very large storage rooms for pharmaceuticals, and “clean rooms” built for sterile testing and research in hospitals. It is great work with capable and nice people working at the top of their field, whatever that may be. Here they asked me to make the facility look large.
This was taken with infrared B&W film, on a panoramic 35mm camera. It was called a Noblex, and yes, I still have it and it still works well. The camera has a rotating drum with a lens mounted perpendicular to the axis of the drum’s rotation. The speed of rotation becomes the effective shutter speed. Using this film with a dark red or infrared filter, the results were always a bit a surprise. And surprises are good. And using the panoramic format, composition becomes a very different thing, and challenging, to say the least. More surprises. […]
My work providing 360-tours in partnership with Google gives me the opportunity to do some interesting photography to help companies market themselves. Imagery plays a huge role in getting people’s attention and making a positive impression. I have always liked doing panoramic imagery- it’s a unique and different approach with its own challenges.
A slick soccer complex built by a company that builds stadiums, fields, and facilities like this from coast to coast. A field is difficult to photograph- it’s large, and difficult to make an image with a natural flow and center of interest. I thought a panoramic approach best suits the subject matter.
A classic 100+ year-old building from when Buffalo was a thriving and growing metropolis not far behind New York and Chicago in size and significance. The building has lots of wrought iron, a large sky-lit atrium, intricate tile work- it just oozes class and style. It was used in a Robert Redford movie “The Natural” as a hotel ballroom and continues to be used for political functions and other important events.
An old-fashioned film panoramic image, done on a Noblex camera. It has a rotating drum with the lens is mounted in it, and it’s rotation speed determines the effective shutter speed, and you set the aperture manually. No auto or program mode whatsoever. And it’s a real actual image taken in one single instant. These days of course, I would take multiple digital images, stitch and edit them into a final image. But that is not one isolated moment and the slight movement of the boats would make that process very complicated.
You would be surprised at the remarkable industries we have right here in southern Ontario. It hasn’t all gone to China. Here they produce high-tech plastic-coated fabric material for automotive uses, healthcare, and much more. I am always grateful for the things I get to see and learn about as a photographer.
In 2015 I had the opportunity to do a number of jobs in Newfoundland. I had six jobs, and two and a half weeks to do them in. Weather was a variable, of course, and June was cold this year, but Newfoundland is as distinct a society as any other part or province of Canada in my opinion, and there is no shortage of ways to spend those weeks- rain or shine. Seafood was the first thing that came to mind.
These wind and water-beaten trees along the western coast are referred to as Tuckamores, and take many different appearances, yet they always have character.
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