Exploded photo collage by fungus amungus
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Make a photo collage from one single photo so that each little detail from the picture gets its own frame. This way you can turn what would be one simple view of something into a dissected view that encourages more visual exploration.

Thank you to Sony Style for providing me with a Cyber-shot TX7 to make the panorama photo.
 
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Step 1: Take a photo

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This is a panorama I shot in San Francisco. The sculpture is called Human Structures and it was made by Jonathan Borofsky.

Unlike a regular photo with one exposure, this photo was made by stitching a series of photos together by panning the Cyber-shot TX7's camera view across a scene (other Sony cameras also have this feature). To be honest, I wasn't expecting much of the feature, called iSweep, since I'm a little bit of a lens geek, but the results are pretty good. The camera easily fits in a pocket and with this feature you can more easily capture the feeling of an environment. If the best camera is the one you have on you, this is a worthy contender.

The only problem: what do you do with a panorama photo? You could get it printed up, which is a small hassle. But then you'd have to find a custom frame for it, which is a big hassle. My solution is to explode, or break up, the photo into multiple pieces and reconstruct it later.

So let's destroy this thing.
plugable says: Aug 7, 2011. 1:41 PM
I love this idea! I gave it a try with an Orion Nebula picture; M42 for the astronomers  ;).
The photos shows the first design and the final result.

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ernestmac13 says: Aug 16, 2010. 7:11 AM
You can take a bunch of individual photos, and then add them together in a photo editor, something that came free with your camera, or Photo Shop elements, or Photo Shop, Painter, or other art program.
fungus amungus (author) says: Aug 16, 2010. 9:54 AM
True, but my goal here was to go in the other direction. Also, by stacking the frames it adds depth to the piece.
greeenpro says: Aug 10, 2010. 2:37 AM
This is really awesome!! I can think of so many possiblilites for subject matter too. Thank you.
fungus amungus (author) says: Aug 13, 2010. 2:41 PM
Certainly! If you make something, be sure to post it here.
kcls says: Aug 9, 2010. 2:15 PM
Cool! I saw this done on a wall at a friends house. They didn't have each in an individual frame though. They had one big frame with a bunch of pictures (Probably 100 or so) overlapping one another. Awesome job!
fungus amungus (author) says: Aug 9, 2010. 2:51 PM
Oh sure. I've seen this done several times with multiple individual photos that are collected together into a collage. David Hockney did a ton of cool pieces with that technique in the 80s.
jeff-o says: Aug 9, 2010. 1:38 PM
Cool idea! I suppose you could also slice up a single photo, if it's high enough resolution...
fungus amungus (author) says: Aug 9, 2010. 2:49 PM
Sure. This camera shoots 10.2 MP pictures as it is. That's enough to print out 18 pictures at 150 dpi to cover the whole image. With overlapping you can make a much bigger final picture.
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