Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Hump Day Fake Panorama


Back in the '90s, certain 35mm film cameras came with what was called 'panoramic mode'. Basically, the 35mm frame was physically masked off on the top and bottom inside the camera, and the exposed part of the film had a panoramic aspect ratio. In the case of this digital photograph, the bottom half of the frame turned out to be more interesting to me than the full recorded image, so I cropped off the top half of the frame. The photograph is not destined for the gallery wall, and I don't feel the need to refer to it as a panorama, but I do think the composition is improved and remember the time when this structure was being built.