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Bernd Holthusen
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Sequential Photography
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Last update 15th of February 2006
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is what I call a composed picture by using a number of single high resolutions digital images. The shooting procedure of these single images starts in the top left corner of the picture and continues horizontal and line by line from top to the bottom. This technic is also called Multi-Line Panoramas, Multi-Row Panoramas or Ultra-High Resolution Digital Mosaics.
The picture of this page for example is a composition out of 99 single digital images; 9 lines with 11 images each. The possible print size of this picture in still very good quality (300 dpi) is 181 x 345 cm and the amount of data is 2,44 GigaByte (2.440.000.000 bytes). But what is the advantage of this new technique? Why do I have to take 99 images, when I can do this picture with one shot only? And why this big amount of data? At the 24th of September 2002 I took some images of a demolition house. The motive I wanted to use for a photorealistic oil painting later. So I did one wide angle image of the entire area and for more details a sequence of some overlapping images using a telephoto lens. I started this sequence in the top left corner and continued horizontal and line by line from top to the bottom. Each of these images I printed on DINA4 paper and mounted all these prints to get one big picture. The result is amazing: 1. The barrel-shaped distortion of a wide angle single picture is known to everybody. The usage of telephoto lenses together with the step by step turn of the camera eliminates this distortion. Example 1. 2. The technic of continued exposures creates a multitude of different units of time. The sensitive use of this effect offers itself new possibilities of design. Example 2. 3. The Sequential Photography makes it possible to show the path of motions - and more than one per picture - without using long-duration exposures. Example 3. 4. To show motions without long-duration exposures permits you to make images at night with less than one second. This protects you from the 'glow out'-effect of colours into white. Example 4. |
5. Using the technic of the Sequential Photography you can do extreme panoramic and wide angle pictures. The only limitation is the mobility of the camera tripod head. Example 5. 6. The amount of single high resolution images used in the Sequential Photography technic gives you a detail quality, which even large format studio cameras (18 x 24 cm / 8 x 10 inch) will not achieve. The reason is simple to explain: There is no lens available - even not for the satellite cameras in space - which is 50 times better in resolution and contrast compared to a 36 mm professional lens like my Canon EF 180mm 1/3.5 L USM (Macro) for example. With the technic of Sequential Photography I have done pictures composed out of 110 high resolution single images and more which achieve over one GigaPixel of detail information. There is no way to do this with a one shot camera. Example 6 and Technic, Page 3. 7. This super high definition pictures have a lot of detail information. Try to achieve this result with a single shot of a professional camera. You will end up with unsharpness and visible grain. Example 7. 8. This technic makes it possible to repeat one or more images as long as you have not moved the tripod. And you are able to do some alternative shots from the same image sequence. Example 8. |
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Click top picture to see the two yellow marked areas in full resolution. All other main pictures of my following series have the same kind of one or more yellow marked areas to show the detail quality. Click from picture to picture and you will end up with the first one again. On the 28th of January 2004 I finished my first picture out of the Station-series 05 BI 'Hamburg-Dammtor' with the enormous size of over one GigaPixel (3.01 GigaByte of file size). More about the technic |
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| Works out of the 'Day&Night'-series
Works out of the 'Station'-series |
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