Panoramas & Joiners
Pamoramas:
A panorama is an unusually wide photograph that generally shows at least as much width ways as the eye is capable of seeing, if not an even greater left to right field of view than the eye is capable of viewing. For example, it can show 'behind' you as well as 'infront'.
Panoramic images consist of multiple photographs stitched together to create one large image. Panoramas dont always have to be horizontal, although this is the most common type of panorama you will find, vertical panoramas are less common which is probably due to them being less effective at capturing most scenes.
Generally panoramas capture a scene rather than a moment. In other words most panoramic photographs are or places rather than of people or events.
Joiners:
My photographic joiners were inspired by the very man who invented the technique. David Hockney was born in Bradford, Yorkshire on the 9th of July, 1937.
Hockney works in many fields of art; these include Painting, Drawing, Photography, Graphics and Stage Design.
I studied David Hockney as part of an A Level Photography course and discovered his famous 'Joiners', I looked into the technique further which is what inspired me to replicate his technique with my own twist.
Joiners consist of many seperate photographs (usually more than 5 but there are no restrictions in terms of scale) which are stitched together much like panoramas are. David Hockney's joiners tended to consist of around a hundred fairly small photographs printed and put together by hand, almost like a jigsaw. When i shot my own joiners i decided to recreate this using digital instead of film. I wanted to keep that rough, hand stitched feel that Hockney's images have so didn't use software to assemble the images in the hope that the joins will remain visible.
Many people have replicated Hockney's joiners over the years and have gone about it in hundreds of different ways, the technique is becoming increasingly popular.
