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Ian James Wood Ian James Wood is a panoramic photographer of several years standing, mostly working on large-scale commissions. His main aim in photography is to bring new perspectives to familiar places and objects, giving the viewer a way to see the world anew. |
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the project The Landmarks project was originally commissioned by Barclays Bank as part of their move to a single main headquarters in the London Docklands. Four photographers were commissioned via International Art Consultants, all working on different aspects of the theme of landmarks. Ian was chosen for the theme 'Landmarks of Britain' - looking at the different aspects of what a landmark is, from navigation aids to historical monuments, key architecture to places of social significance. The other photographers on the commision were Dominic Pote, who concentrated on London, Manuela Hofer who covered capitals of Europe and Christine McPhee who combined her own paintings, photographs and found imagery from Barclays' archive of corporate and advertising images into digital montages. Photography took place between May and early September 2004, with all work being finished and installed by the end of December 2004. |
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the techniques These panoramic images are not produced by a special panoramic camera, but rather from a standard digital SLR camera. Using a special tripod head, a grid of relatively low resolution overlapping images is shot, and then stitched together into one seamless image through computer software and large amounts of manual labour. Further technical information. |
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Links Azure Vision - Ian's main website. VRMag article on Ian's Stonehenge panorama. Video and PDF of Ian's talk at the 2005 PanoTools meeting in Venice, along with videos of other speakers. Ian can be contacted at ian (at) azurevision (dot) co (dot) uk |