Ideas so far... Themes

• Hide and seek
• All or Nothing
• Highs and lows
• Alone / A day in the life of the lonely

My first thought on this project was to take the photographs in a crowded place packed full of objects or people. It would be exciting to look at and the viewer would be able to pick out stories for themselves. BUT now I have looked into Panoramic photography closer I realise that this would be a big mistake for my first try. It would be to hard to match up all the moving people etc... Sometimes with Panoramic photography I think it can work if things haven't matched up perfectly so the whole image looks kind of distorted...But i'll save that for next time...

My favourite photographers are Larry Clark, Muzi Quawson and Nan Goldin. Nan Goldin has compared her photographs to her diary, Larry Clarks body of work Tulsa was taken of all his close friends in the 1960's so basically another diary and Muzi Quawson is heavily influenced by both Clark and Goldin.............
A lot of they're photographs are of people on there own, they make you think about the person in the photographs lives and what they are doing there all alone... This is what I am going to try and achieve with my panoramics.

Larry Clark

Muzi Quawson

Nan Goldin

I found a photographer called Paul Williams who has a body of work using Panoramic Photography, most of which is of parachuters in the mountains. I particularly like the image below for the wide range of colour which stands out so vividly from the almost black and white mountains. The parachutes and flowers are almost popping out of the image...

PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHY RESEARCH...

Although some would say the below image doesn't work as it looks crowded, I really like it. There is so much going on but that's what I like about it... There is so much to see!
A lot of panoramic images can be really boring to look at if they are empty, which happens often as you are making an image of so much space which may not be as packed with things to look at as this restaurant...