While I continue my deliberations about my future in photography, I’ve promised that I would still post-process and post photographs I’ve take over the last several months, but have just not had the time or inclination to work on. This shot, of an old spiral staircase, is one I shot during a fairly recent trip to an abandoned paper mill in former East Germany. I photographed this vertical panorama (or Vertorama) with my 24mm tilt-shift lens, using both shift (to shoot the upper and lower frames of the vertorama), and tilt (to keep the stairs sharper, while allowing the rest of the shot to blur). By the way, if anyone has questions about how to use a tilt-shift lens, Photomatix and Photoshop to do this kind of work, give me a holler! And if you want to see a true Vertorama master at work, check out South African photographer Paul Bruins’ work on flickr. He is known there as Panorama Paul, and it was through his amazing work that I was turned on to Vertoramas!
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