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Architects have adopted digital panoramas as a way to delineate spaces that are difficult to photograph.
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The CAD operator can zoom in on small sections of the building envelope to locate repair sites. See if you can find this bit in the larger image.
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This photograph, taken at historic Colgate Inn, in Hamilton, New York, required a complex lighting setup. The final image, however, is essentially straight from the camera with very little post-production effort. Â
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Watson waited for a passing cumulus cloud to reflect light onto the waterfall before he took his shot in the Finger Lake Region of New York.
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Tom Watson (foreground) and his partner Rob Howard pose with their custom-built large-format digital camera. They use the traditional focus cloth favored by view-camera photographers for both the camera and the laptop.
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John Coffer, a wetplate tintype photographer, works with Civil War-era technology in Dundee, New York, which is the polar opposite of Watson’s digital-scan photography.
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This is a detail of an original file magnified by a factor of 100.
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Crops can be taken from these intensely detailed files.
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Using a view camera and a BetterLight digital back, Watson was able to make one image of a 10-story building. The 144-MB file contains so much information, the file could be loaded into AUTOCAD and dimensioned.
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Using a view camera, Watson divided the frame into sky, cityscape and water in proportions of his choosing. This was an 8-minute exposure with 131 degrees of rotation.
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The pine duff was so deep around these trees, Watson found it difficult to set up a tripod. Each tree is about seven feet in diameter.Â
