What an overwhelming and amazing example. This trio is unbelievable. You truly made my day with this view of Bryce Canyon. It's breathtaking. The sharpness, the coloring, everything is awesome. It must have been such an experience to take these.Of course, at some point this week, or the next, I will make a new Triptych. But because of the Rhythm assignment, I was able to get my favorite tree in the fog (which had nothing to do with Rhythm but it was on the same day). That completed a set of three. I thought I would post it here for fun. When I had the time to paint, I often did sets of three, even with very large canvasses. Because they were very large, an office that bought one of the sets split them up and had them on different sides of a conference room. It looked nice. Simply to say, they were ok on their own or together.Well, have a good day, everyone.
"Very cool! So as I think about this assignment and look at examples, it seems like there are various techniques that can be used: 1) 3 shots that form a panorama type of shot that could be "stitched" if not for the triptych technique (this would be like the amazing Bryce examples, right?); 2) taking a panoramic shot and splitting it in thirds (is this what you did, Lars?); 3) 3 separate shots that somehow go together thematically (Michele's tree; others I saw on the internet). Am I on the right track?"
Yep! It definitely sounds fun. Is it too difficult to explain how to put the three images together into a frame?
I"m not sure -- it could be iPhoto or Picasa. I don't think there is anything in Cannon DPP. Any other suggestions? I know I could use the collage feature in Picasa. I can probably figure out something in iPhoto. One of these days I will bite the bullet and get Photoshop - I suppose it might be good to get it and play before Crested Butte, huh?
Another very useful (and free) program is IrfanView (if you're using Windows). I use it a lot. This can be used for a bunch of basic editing and viewing tasks. To create a triptych with IrfanView try this:1. Pick your three images, for left, middle and right2. Open each in IrfanView and use Image/Resize, setting the height of each to 300 pixels. Be sure there is a checkmark next to "preserve aspect ratio".3. Save each of the images as something like "filename_left, filename_middle, etc..4. In IrfanView select Image/Create Panorama Image5. Use the "add images" button to add the 3 resized images, one at a time6. Put "10" in the spacing input box, select whatever color you want between the images7. Click on the "Create Image" button8. Add a border around it by using "Image/Change Canvas Size"9. Use 10 pixels for all four sides, select the same color you used for the spacing.10. Click on OK, save the image (set the 'save as' type to .jpg and the 'save quality' slider to 80 or 90).