The Value of Vertoramas

I created my first vertorama on the 20th of June 2007. While strolling around Cape Town with my camera early one morning, I noticed some beautiful light reflecting off the smooth polished cobbles in Greenmarket square.

So what exactly is a “Vertorama”? It’s nothing more than an abbreviation for the words “Vertical Panorama”. Most panoramas that you’ll see are horizontal , but a vertorama is vertical in orientation, and quite often square. The word vertorama didn’t exist in the English language in 2007, and a Google search of the term returned zero results.

However, the English language is not a static thing and new words are added to our vocabulary every year. The Cambridge Dictionary now hasfor the word ‘vertorama’: “A photograph in which the image is shown in a tall vertical view.” However, as much as I loved their visual impact, the process of creating perfect vertoramas was not without its challenges.

By creating a new canvas and pasting my two photos into it , I was able to rotate, straighten and twist them until they fitted together seamlessly. It usually took a fair amount of tweaking to get them to align perfectly, but the resulting image was always worth the time spent editing it. The masking process was effortless when the alignment process was successful, and compositions without any vertical lines were always much easier to stitch.

Photo-stitching technology has vastly improved in the 15 years since I attempted to stitch my first ultra-wide vertorama. These days most stitching software is always able to join multiple images together seamlessly, so a process that used to take me hours, can now be completed in mere seconds. Others could argue that ultra-wide vertoramas will never be an accurate reflection of reality. We might be able to capture “more than our eyes can see”, but our subjects usually end up appearing so distorted that they don’t look anything like what we saw with our eyes. I would argue that any photo taken with any wide or telephoto lens is a distortion of reality since it is not how we view the world.

Always remember, the wider the lens the greater the depth of field. Vertoramas captured at longer focal lengths might require focus-stacking for perfect results.

A fun technique. Been doing it on and off for fifteen years, give or take.

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