Photo Stitch

I am reviewing some different techniques that I might employ for an upcoming shoot. One technique is the photo merge in Photoshop CS5. This program is often use to stitch photo together for panoramics. I've used this technique before, but never for any work I have published.

Below are some snap shots I took near my house using photo merge. Both photos use about 10-20 photos to produce the one shot.  Photo merge is a really fast way to work together a collage of many photos. A more finished product would be trimmed so you wouldn't see the irregular edge. In the shot of the pipe I like how I was able to get a nice shallow depth of field with a 35 mm lens at f 1.8 on a Nikon D-300s (50mm equivalent) to produce a wide angle view. To capture this, standing where I was, with just one shot would need the coverage of a 24 mm lens and I would have had much less depth of field. I don't know if I'll use photo merge to produce photos for the shoot, but it's always fun to explore the possibilities.