This week's assignment was to create a panoramic shot. This involves taking multiple shots of the same scene at different angles, then editing them together into one huge, wide photo. Photos of this type allow you to get a better, more complete view of the scene.
Supposedly this assignment is frustrating, but I didn't find it to be overly difficult. It only involved moving the layers around, playing with transparency to line them up, and then scaling them to get everything to match, finally blending everything together with the trusty fuzzy eraser tool. The only trouble I ran into was due to the fact that I took this picture outside. It was cloudy, and somehow this resulted in extreme differences in lighting with only a slight change of angle. One layer seemed to yellow, one too blue, and one underexposed. I had to painstakingly adjust levels on each layer to get them to match, bringing one up a little, bringing another down a little... This was a mite frustrating at the time, but in the end, was far less time-consuming than I expected. Overall, I feel pretty good about it.
The scene is the pond in front of the school. It was cloudy and a bit breezy, which made some nice ripples in the water. There had been some swans as well, but by the time I managed to get the tripod set up (much more difficult than it may at first appear) they had drifted out of sight. Still, the scene looks nice and serene.
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