I’ve been shooting mosaic style panoramas since the day I bought my first SLR. The advantage of 35mm mosaic style panoramas over those commonly done with 35mm that crop in camera is that there is much higher resolution as each "tile" is it’s own 35mm frame. I’ve continued this method with my digital photography, achieving similar results.

With the addition of Adobe PhotoShop to my editing routine (CS3), I’m now more able to smoothly blend the individual frames together into one continuous image and also remove or adjust things in a way I could never have in the darkroom except with great effort. Some images are composites of as many as seven or eight separate images or as few as two or even one in which elements from two or more shots of the same subjects are combined to create an idealized version. It’s pretty common for me to remove road signs, light poles, or whatever I have to, to get the best possible composition. If you see me in a photo, odds are good I used some digital magic to get me there.

Enjoy.

John O.