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Lee Frosts Panoramic Photography | 
 enlarge | Author: Lee Frost
Publisher: David & Charles
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 346192
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0715319698
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.36
EAN: 9780715319697
ASIN: 0715319698
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
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Product Description
Bestselling author Lee Frost presents an all-encompassing, completely practical guide to creating great images in the increasingly popular panoramic format. Panoramic photography is more accessible and more popular now than ever before. The launch of affordable cameras has been partly responsible for this, putting a panoramic system within the reach of most enthusiast photographers. Digital technology has helped too--it is now relatively straightforward to shoot a sequence of images and stitch them together using computer software. Here Lee Frost leads readers through all the information they will need to create successful panoramic images--from choosing equipment and looking at different ways to produce panoramics, to applying filters, printing and displaying pictures, and much more. Particular attention is paid to approaching the composition of panoramics, and overcoming compositional difficulties. Frost also offers readers inspiration for more creative uses of panoramic photography, showing how it can be used not only for landscapes and architecture, but also action, portraits, reportage, and other subjects.
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Great Intro to Panoramic Photography! August 18, 2008
This is a great introduction to panoramic photography! It covers pretty much every way to capture panoramic images from beginning to end. It mostly covers film flat back cameras. It has lots of photos from the cameras and of the cameras. It gives great information on each type of camera and examples of the best. This book is what really led me to get a flat back 6x17 film camera system. Although, if you're looking for information on digital stitching, this really isn't the book for you. It briefly goes over that, but is film camera dominated. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's interested in shooting in panoramic format.
Outstanding book on Panorama techniques August 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book for those interested in making photographic panoramas. It is a little outdated, but still covers the basics of making panoramas with a digital camera. The author is british, so a little of the terminology seems a bit strange to Americans (in a delightful sort of way). It is chock full of beautiful panoramas and the author's explanations of how he made them are very valuable. Good technique is timeless and this book is crammed with useful techniques as well as a very good photograhic philosophy. Being a photographer myself, I very much appreciate Mr. Frost sharing his valuable experience, opinions and outstanding panoramas with us! Lee frost discusses, and evaluates (objectively), all the panoramic cameras I am aware of, and some that I was not. I highly recommend this book for those interested in this subject and for those who simply want to look at and appreciate his beautiful photographs.
 Excellent starting point on all that is panoramic February 2, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I first began to browse this book I thought that there was nothing new here, especially for a photographer with some experience. It was almost a retelling of other "how to" photographic books, covering basics such as filling the frame, foreground interest and the rule of thirds.
However, on reading through it in more detail, it did cover issues specifically related to panoramic images, such as exposure, filters (especially polarisers), and metering. There were a number of helpful tips, such as using blue-tac to secure filters and center ND filters.
There were some omissions, such as stitching backs and pinhole panoramas, but all in all it covered the equipment side very well. The section on digital stitching was adequate but did not cover the issue of lens nodal points and specialized panoramic tripod adapters. There are now photographers creating giant digital mosaics that are at the 1gig file size level using stitching software such as PTAssembler and hardware such as the Panosaurus Panoramic Tripod Head. Imagine turning a Canon 10D into a 100megapixel camera!
In the end I awarded this book four stars only because I could not award 3.5. I admit though that this is an excellent starting point for someone new to panoramic photography, and all in one handy book.
Great Book! September 8, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought a 2nd hand Xpan (1st gen) a year ago but never really know what to do with it. It was left on the shelf when I bought a digital SLR.
After going through this book, I'm back to film and I never leave home without my Xpan.
Panatastic March 3, 2006
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a great book for anyone considering panoramic photography or for those who are new to the format.
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