Put some drama to it (Panorama)

Even how much good the quality of an image is, some of you might have already come across with the same observation as I have. Photographs can only show a limited point of view of a certain subject. Another creative and artful way is to combine several shots as needed into one to be able to do that and post-process them. Taking several photos and stitching them into one to show it in a perspective which sometimes is not the way it was seen in normal view.

The technique is for you to take overlapping shots of the subject you have chosen. The frames of the first photo taken should overlap with the next one with 20-50 percent of its size. Just imagine two rectangles overlapping like a Venn diagram, although, in this case you’d be doing it in taking pictures. The whole point here is that you should be able to capture several shot of a single subject in the same angle but in different frames. For instance, you are standing in a single vantage point your head directed at 180 degrees from your left side gradually turning on the other side. This is most like what you will do if you are planning to produce a panoramic image. You will have to first examine your subject and analyze which perspective fits the view.

You can do this in many ways have it the basic way which is taking photos of a single straight lane, an example is a highway or a beach. Having either of these subjects you might want a much longer view to emphasize its structures. You can also make a panoramic image which gives away a turning perspective, for example, a dome, or a cylindrical venue crowded with people.

Using fisheye and or kit lenses are recommended. It is said to be more useful and effective in this style of photography. Fisheye lens at 8-15mm and kit lens at 18-55mm should be good to take panoramic photos with less effort in taking several overlapping shots.

There may be no need for me to say it but I will anyway as an explanation. It is due to the limitation of my resources that I was not able to produce better examples of panorama. (I promise to upload better photographs when the time comes. J)

So here, for the sake of giving you an example:

Copyright MarCaDi

Stand up, sit-up, Shoot right on!

If ever some of us would like to further pursue in the field of photography later on, this Mass Comm Lab-based photo shoot that we had would be of much help. Even if no one would, we still seem to not have much of a choice since it’s a part of the course. It’s a bonus because there are lots to learn.


There are certain factors to consider if you are planning to conduct a photo shoot which we have learned during our practice and trial shoot in the confinement of the Mass Comm Lab and Editing Lab. First, consider your purpose for shooting. If you would only do it for fun and learning decide on your own theme, in our case we chose high fashion. On the other hand, if you are a hired amateur photographer, even if you only have a small pay grade, let your client choose his or her preferred theme. Photography as business includes negotiations. Secondly, hire models, and let them come 2 to 3 hours ahead of the photo shoot schedule for preparation especially if your model is female, make-up session takes a long time to finish. You must also give tokens for your models like what we did, it doesn’t matter if they are professional or not. Therefore, because it’s a class work, each of us paid an equal amount which we used to have something given to our models as our thanks.


If you already know the basics which refer to the exposure triangle: shutter speed; aperture; and ISO, and the techniques in lighting this should be a little less difficult for you. Still, it will always depend on the situation you are in whether the process should be less hard or even more difficult to handle.


That was what made it hard for us to take a lot of good shots. We are more than 30 in class and we only had 2 hours left to shoot because the other 2 hours was allotted to the preparation. Here comes another lesson, no matter how much it is needed and good to have a lot of photos taken, it is more significant to have photos taken less in quantity but better in quality. You cannot do anything on several “so-so” shots. I would always prefer to have less unedited photos if the situation only permits that. I can be prouder this way knowing that I did not need to edit my photos just to make it look good with some or many alterations.


So, here are my obras:

Models: Acine and Justin 

Copyright. MarCaDi

Momentum is better

Stop motion is the kind of animation which is more likely to be impossibly be done by video recording. It is done by putting together a cluster of images to form a video which creates a different and wonderful effect.

To better explain it our instructor had shown us various clips showing different kinds of stop motion animation. Now, we even recognize a simple TV commercial which includes some stop motion in it.

Of course, like any other previous meetings, we went out for practice. Though this time we did conceptualize first before doing the deed since it is important in this kind of art you can relay a simple but remarkable message.

What we initially do is to show the difference of emotions like happiness and sadness. One of us will run from a distance looking so happy, even laughing yet, when she closes up to the view her face shows sadness instead.

Our remarks was that it would be a good video however; it can also be done by video recording.



You can check out our final stop motion video on this link:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHOvoN6tcWQ