SANP Monthly Meeting
October 27, Speaker: M.K. Miller
Panoramas
Who is Mike Miller? He started serious photography during his doctorate at Oxford University 52 years ago, taking extremely low-light macro photographs of individual atoms with Nikon FM on Kodak Tri-X pushed to ISO 3200. Invited to America in 1979 to perform basic science research for US Steel to catch and identify individual atoms in steels to investigate how their physical properties could be understood and improved. Then invited to Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a research scientist in 1983 to extended this field of study. Rose to the position of Corporate Fellow. Elected a Fellow of the Microcopy Society of America in 2010 for his pioneering research. He experimented with the original commercial digital cameras i.e., Kodak DCS 760 and Nikon D1. His photographs have been used in hundreds of scientific papers and journal covers, and book covers.
Mike’s main photographic interests are macro, wildlife, landscapes including panoramas and lighthouses, and astrophotography. Travelled to all 7 continents multiple times that have resulted in the publication of 40 travel books and 5 scientific textbooks and his photographs have been used in several travel brochures.
The focus of this slideshow is to provide a general SANP audience with all the pertinent information necessary to become proficient in taking, producing, and printing high-quality panoramas. He has included a few points that even some experts may not be aware of. The presentation will be illustrated by over 40 examples of panoramas of scenic places around the world that you might be interested in visiting. So, something for everyone.
Topics to be discussed include what is a panorama, early, 12th century, Chinese and English panorama paintings, and early photographic panoramas, photographic equipment required, lens selection, camera capture parameters, perspective, extensions and compression distortions, discussion of field-of-view of human eyes versus cameras, issues of viewing and displaying images, stitching methods, issues and artifacts, rotation and linear projection points, portrait versus landscape modes, and vertical panoramas, how many frames to stitch, file size considerations, and methods to reduce file size.
