Expanding Our View with Panoramic Photography
©Philipp Scholz Rittermann
The Panorama has been a steady staple of photography since the beginnings of the medium. Photographers like Edweard Muybridge and later Goldbeck and others practiced this early on. It was a way of literally expanding our view. Soon, photographers discovered they could take a series of photographs and mount them together so they gave a convincing appearance of a continuous landscape. Later, circuit cameras were invented which had the ability to rotate and capture a seamless scene on a large piece of film.
This two-day intensive workshop is designed to revisit these old but proven techniques and to explore new and exciting approaches to making panoramic photographs. Using regular digital cameras, we will learn how to fuse a series of single images into a seamless panorama, or assemble the images into a panoramic sequence. The field session will concentrate on photographing the urban landscape, with and without people.
Saturday will include lecture and presentation followed by shooting assignments around Venice Beach. On Sunday we will critique the work and wrap-up. Suitable for all levels of photographers seeking to explore alternative methods of photography
Philipp Scholz Rittermann’s (www.rittermann.com) work spans opposite ends of our visual environment, from evocative nocturnal scenes of industry and architecture, to dramatic panoramas of pristine landscape. His work is featured in over fifty public, private and corporate collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France. He is exhibited widely in national and international venues. An accomplished educator, Philipp has been teaching photography for over 25 years in the USA and abroad. In 2001 he was honored with a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, which published a monograph of his work titled Navigating by Light.
