February 10, 2010

istanbul360-panoramic photography

this video is an adobe after effects study of still panoramic photographs created in year 2002 by ekmel ertan and murat germen. these photos were exhibited at marmara-manhattan gallery in new york, 2003. photos were taken with a nikon coolpix 5000 digital compact camera and stitched with panorama factory, photovista; then retouched in photoshop for correcting line mismatches during the stitching process. music credit: Anouar Brahem "Conte de l'incroyable amour" Anouar Brahem: oud Barbaros Erköse: clarinet Kudsi Erguner: nai Lassad Hosni: bendir, darbouka www.ecmrecords.com below is an excerpt from the concept text: ———————————– Reading the space as an entity One of the main characteristics of panoramic photography is its ability to let one perceive the object / subject / space of interest as an entity with relation to their surroundings. Many details on the periphery that would normally be left out in single frames become "centralized" in panoramic photography. As a consequence, you end up with a particular life form of its own kind which turns out to be the synthesis of individual forms, in other words a "sui generis" situation… This unique narrative can be extended to cubist works and Ottoman miniatures where unrealistic multifaceted descriptions can be observed, or reminds us of Piranesi's drawings depicting complicated interwoven three dimensional worlds. ———————————–