See some panoramas! | What is it that I do? | What is panography? | What can I do for you and your company? | Prices

What is it that I do?

Greetings! My name is Maciek Dworak and I work with photography and areas related to it. My services include commercial and stock photography, outdoors photo sessions and retouching old and damaged photos. However, that which I specialise in the most is panography.

What is panography?

Panography is based on capturing a wide angle of view in one image. Panoramas came into existence long before digital imaging. "Panorama" was the term used by Scottish painter Robert Barker to describe some of his works. Once photography was established, photographers tried assembling adjacent images of one place into a single, wide view. Nowadays with the dawn of digital photography taking over the traditional, film-based practice, panoramic photographs boast unprecedented possibilities and quality, exceeding even the physical possibilities of the camera shooting them.

What can I do for you and your company?

Panography can be used as an artform, as a means of documenting a given place in a given time and as a catchy and innovative advertisement!

• Would you like to display the facilities and equipment available at your sports and recreation center? Do you own a hotel with exquisite rooms? Would you like to show off your stylish restaurant? Or maybe you sell real estate and you would like to offer your potential customers an option of viewing remote locations from the comfort of their living rooms? It's as simple as inviting me over and letting me do the rest, and in a short time your potential clients will be able to admire what you have to offer!
• Would you like to preserve the sights and feelings of a motorcycle speedway or soccer match? Are you intrigued by the view of everyday life in your city? Or maybe you would like to advertise an unusual place? I can also do all this and secure the memory by your side forever!
• Are you looking for very high resolution photographs intending to use them as wall to wall wallpaper? Are you missing something original in your house? Well now unusual photos of unusual places can hang proudly in your home!

I can capture as wide a field of view as I wish, up to 360°x180°! This type of image can be viewed the same way as any other digital photograph, or using a special panorama viewing program, which will allow you to 'move around' as if you were really standing there! You can pan horizontally and vertically, and zoom in and out.

You can also have several panoramas joined together to create a virtual tour. This allows you to look around in one panorama, and if you see a spot marking a place from which another panorama was shot, you can click it and automatically get taken to that other spot, giving the illusion that you walked from one place to another and can now look around from that new spot. This is an ideal solution for hotels, spas, recreation centers, parks and similar places!

A panorama can contain a high dynamic range. A dynamic range is the difference between the brightest and darkest point in a scene. Typical photos cannot capture this whole range, and so result in photos with either 'blown out' skies (the sky appears white although in real life it was blue and had clouds) or 'clipped shadows' (the shadows appear black, although in real life you actually could see things in these shadowy areas). But this is no longer a problem, since with the help of technology I can capture the whole dynamic range, so you will see details everywhere, from the brightest to the darkest areas!

I can offer the finished panorama in three forms

• as a flat digital photograph that you can view the same way as any other photo on your computer,
• as a virtual panorama which is ready to be embedded in your website or viewed on your computer and allows rotating and zooming,
• or as a large format (you decide how large, it can even be many meters wide!) high quality printout. Thanks to the panorama's high resolution, your printout will be crisp even at huge dimensions!

Prices

If you are interested in my offer, then you can check out the prices in the „pricelist”.

See some panoramas!

As you know, some things just cannot be well described using mere words. One of these things are panoramas, so feel welcome to see some 'virtual panorama' examples in the "panoramas" section, or some 'flat panoramas' in the gallery.