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I’ve been playing around with piecing several pictures together. I don’t think their called collages. If you know what they are called, let me know.

Picking Up Max From School

Lauttasaari Horizon

A wooden sculpture in Helsinki International Airport.

Helsinki International Airport Sculpture.

Helsinki Olympic Stadium

Uspenski Orthodox Cathedral

Badalona Hotel, Spain

Badalona Beach, Spain

Sagrada Família

Dali Museum Figueres

Port Lligat

Las Ramblas 2

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26 Responses

on February 22, 2011 at 4:44 am | Reply beckyyk

awesome and inspiring.
- on February 22, 2011 at 8:39 am | Reply Tom Beidler
  
  Thanks Beckyyk!
on February 17, 2011 at 5:14 am | Reply amcnabb3

I love the collages, especially the first two. The tree really draws your eye into the picture, and the beach looks so peaceful. Nicely done.
- on February 17, 2011 at 12:33 pm | Reply Tom Beidler
  
  Thanks so much.
on January 28, 2011 at 12:49 pm | Reply Prima

Really inspiring!

I usually joined 2-3 photos become one (become one picture) with photomerge in PS, I called panorama… but for this case… I dont know..

but, really I’d like to try this!
- on January 28, 2011 at 1:01 pm | Reply Tom Beidler
  
  Thanks Prima! Love your blog too and as I said, luckily google translate helps because my Indonesian is a bit limited I’m living in Finland and my Finnish is awful so I’m used to dealing with translations. The subject and colors of your photographs speak for themselves. Kudos!
  
  To make my collages/panoramas I use Photoshop. I just import the individual images in separate layers, turn one layer transparent so I can align the next and then flatten them. I guess photomerge does the same thing. Maybe I’ll try that.
  
  Thanks for the post!
  - on January 28, 2011 at 3:39 pm | Reply Prima
    
    Got it, that’s what photomerge does…but most of the time I need to adjust them manually, layer by layer, they just sometimes too complicated to be a nice “connected” pictures… you know that…
    
    I have some of photomerged pictures, I usually put the pictures as the last one in a post, Oh, in photography category… If you see a long square picture, that’s the one! sorry, I am too excited sometimes
on December 12, 2010 at 11:37 pm | Reply Namrata

Awesome…
- on December 13, 2010 at 8:47 am | Reply Tom Beidler
  
  Thanks Namrata! We’ll go ice skating soon and maybe I will have a post about your Princess Snow White on the ice.
on November 13, 2010 at 4:22 am | Reply Kim Beidler

Hi Tom, You’ve added some since I looked last. I love the one of picking up Max at school. Love, love, love it!! The Dali is super cool and I like the way the Port Lligat looks with the border on the pics. Very nice work. But that one of Max… something touching about it.
- on November 13, 2010 at 9:38 am | Reply Tom Beidler
  
  Thanks Kim. The Max one is probably my favorite too.
  - on November 13, 2010 at 6:14 pm | Reply Kim Beidler
    
    Little boy in a big big world.
on October 11, 2010 at 2:13 pm | Reply Jackie Waldman

Please do send me copies to play with. I’ll try from here on my printer. I was thinking about copying them onto transparencies.
- on October 11, 2010 at 7:03 pm | Reply Tom Beidler
  
  Tell me a couple of the ones you like. I’ll burn a cd and send them to you.
on September 27, 2010 at 7:03 pm | Reply dave treece

thank you, Tom.
- on September 27, 2010 at 7:23 pm | Reply Tom Beidler
  
  No, thank you, Dave!
on September 27, 2010 at 7:02 pm | Reply dave treece

dear god the Dali blows my mind!!!!!!!!!!
on September 25, 2010 at 1:41 am | Reply Jackie Waldman

Tom, these are incredible. Can these “prints” be printed and then put together? I think we have something here!
- on September 26, 2010 at 4:09 pm | Reply Tom Beidler
  
  They’re not high res because I shot them on my iPhone but they maybe big enough for your work. I’ll send you one to play with. It would be great to see what you could do!
on September 15, 2010 at 4:51 pm | Reply Sara Weber

Very cool, Tom! I would call them collages. The Lautasaari Horizon looks so surreal.
on September 15, 2010 at 2:11 pm | Reply Jackie Waldman

These need to be framed!! Suspended between two pieces of glass would be cool!!
on September 14, 2010 at 5:05 am | Reply Carolyn Hubbard

Love it Tom! Especially “Picking up Max”.
- on September 14, 2010 at 9:47 am | Reply Tom Beidler
  
  Thanks Cici! Glad you left a comment. Life has been crazy with trying to get cars, immigration and I started Finnish lessons. Plus I don’t have Internet in my new place which is a major bummer. Hopefully things will sort out. We need to Skype
on September 13, 2010 at 6:43 pm | Reply Kim Beidler

I was thinking the same thing Dave, but I think this is a more creative version of that, since it’s meant to look sort of artistic rather than like a real big, long photo. Haha, I’m making myself laugh right now because I have no idea what I’m talking about and I’m pretty sure both of you guys know that…
on September 13, 2010 at 5:01 pm | Reply dave treece

Right, Max. Pretty cool. Tom, the Canon manuals refer to this process of panoramic photo construction as “photo stitching”.
on September 12, 2010 at 4:32 pm | Reply Max Beidler

Cool stuff