Get Creative – Make A Panoramic Photo With Your Kids
Panoramic photographs have been around for a long time, way before digital cameras came along. Have you ever thought to make a panoramic photo with your kids in it? In the early days there were two different ways to make a panoramic photograph. One way was with special cameras loaded with extra wide film, and which could take photos that were much wider than they were tall.
The other, more traditional way, is to take a series of photographs and connect them in a manner similar to a collage. Using this technique you could make a panoramic photo with your kids! Unfortunately, you can often see seams between each picture because they are layered, one on top of the other.
Fortunately, digital photography makes it possible for us to make a panoramic photo with your kids. Creating the panorama on your personal computer is actually pretty similar to making a collage of prints. The software on your computer simply takes the series of photographs and stitches them together digitally in such a way that the seams are invisible.
Make A Panoramic Photo Of Your Kids
First, you need to take a series of photographs of your kids and the scene behind them, some of which won’t even have your kids in them. For the best results be as careful as you can as you take the original images. The better your images the better you will be able to make a panoramic photo with your kids.
To get the best set of photographs it is best to make sure they are taken at the same level. With the camera on a tripod
Perhaps the single most important step is getting the correct overlap. The software on your computer will need to know how to combine each image in order to make the finished panorama. To accomplish this, try to get a 25 to 50% overlap between your images. If you make sure some of the scene you photographed in the first image also appears in the second image, then the stitching software on your computer will be able to match them and combine them into one wide photograph.
If you are interested in taking pictures of your child as an art form, I would highly recommend this book: Photographing Children Photo Workshop: Develop Your Digital Photography Talent
Remember, keep taking lots and lots of photographs of your kids. You will be glad you did!
Betty Muscott, Child Photographer
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