StokeCreative Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 Has anybody sold many/any panoramas? To be honest I just like making them, and then thinking 'oh that would be great for a double page spread, or banner'. But I wonder what the reality is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 Just on that topic I have noticed that sometimes panoramics display very badly in the search results, as if they were badly out of focus. It seems to depend upon where they happen to show up in the grid and it tends to be the more extreme examples of around 3:1 or more. The threshold for the panoramics filter under orientation seems to be an aspect ratio of 2:1 and that can just be a cropped full frame provided it is over 17MB uncompressed but that filter can be used in conjunction with the file size filter to get the high resolution photomerged options. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 (edited) Blow me down if I haven't just sold a panoramic: This is the cropped variety though on my X-T2 just to exclude a lot of extraneous blue sky. Probably should have left it on anyway (copyspace?). Actually as I've said in the 'Images sold in February' thread, I sold 3 other similar images at the same time, all for Presentation Use, so the fact that this is a panoramic probably didn't contribute to the sale at all. I thought that if I was going to crop it I might as well make it 2:1. Edited February 18, 2023 by Harry Harrison 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 photographers like panoramas, picture editors do not. best use of space on the printed page is more a priority. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 (edited) 25 minutes ago, Robert M Estall said: photographers like panoramas, picture editors do not. best use of space on the printed page is more a priority. But web designers do like them for web-page banners/headers. Not as lucrative as print uses though. Mark Edited February 19, 2023 by M.Chapman 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 I only have one and not surprised it hasn't sold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 I have three or four on Alamy three being cropped from Full frame and one actual pano. Allan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 (edited) Here's a few panos of mine that have sold. https://d21vwm96zyfwvd.cloudfront.net/assets/files/1473/shutterstock_1218632158-jura-sand-beach.webp https://www.campsites.co.uk/search/campsites-in-scotland/inner-hebrides/colonsay https://thegincooperative.com/gin-maker/wild-thyme-spirits/ (shame they messed up the WB and the quality) https://www.argyllcruising.com/scottish-cruises/corryvreckan-to-the-shiants/ Mark Edited February 20, 2023 by M.Chapman 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 (edited) I have a number of panos on Alamy, but none has ever licensed. Had a few zooms, though. I really like making panoramas. However, it's usually easy for buyers to crop regular horizontal images for website banners. Back in film days, I used to take along a couple of those cheap disposable panorama cameras on trips with me. The results were pretty good. I even toyed with the idea of buying a real panorama camera, but they were bulky and expensive. Kinda glad I didn't bother... Edited February 19, 2023 by John Mitchell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooth Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 (edited) . Edited October 19, 2023 by sooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Lowe Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 (edited) I have about 400 panoramas on Alamy from which I've had 35 sales. Years ago I played around with a MPP 5x4 field camera and a 6x12 roll film back, and two of the panoramas were from this (never sold any 5x4 though). Probably borderline panoramic but it was sold as a 'panoramic' back. That's my excuse anyway..😀 Only five sales of the 6x12s from the MPP, four of them from one image - Kylesku Bridge, Scotland. Edited February 20, 2023 by Vincent Lowe 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekVallintine Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 I have sold a panoramic image twice within 15 months. I believe a realtor is using it to sell houses in my area. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webby Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 sold this one for a massive 25c... 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Kirby Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 I have 10 panos on Alamy and have sold two, one of Lake Windermere taken from a fell top and the other of the Hole of Horcum on the North York Moors which was used as a double page spread in a photographic mag. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) Back in the days of film, I did toy with the idea of buying one of those 6x12 cameras, but they were just too expensive to justify. As a photo library we sent out originals or increasingly, quite a lot of 6x9 dupes up from 35 mm slides mostly. We did quite a few cropped to 6x12 which we thought looked pretty impressive, but I don't think we ever sold any. Was it Leica who made that little 35mm pano? Neat, but pricey Edited February 21, 2023 by Robert M Estall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 37 minutes ago, Robert M Estall said: Was it Leica who made that little 35mm pano? Neat, but pricey Hasselblad Xpan, still popular, and expensive, but Hasselblad stopped supporting it years ago once they ran out of circuit boards. https://www.hasselblad.com/about/history/xpan/ Regarding Leica, they developed a special panoramic version of their S2 just for Josef Koudelka: https://leicarumors.com/2015/06/03/leica-made-a-special-one-of-a-kind-s2-digital-panoramic-camera-for-josef-koudelka.aspx/ Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) Yup, Hasselblad Xpan was what I was thinking of. It was quite a lot of money but nothing like as much to haul around as the 6x12s. It was a pano, but not really very wide angle. And I already had too much gear! And too many formats. If I had wanted the Xpan format, all I had to do was take a pair of scissors to a bit of 120 film from either my Fuji wide or my SW Hasselblad. Or my Pentax 67 with 45mm lens. If they could have offered something like a 30mm lens, that could have been a game-changer. But they didn't and that saved me quite a lot of money Edited February 21, 2023 by Robert M Estall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Rees Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 I took lots and sold a few, but they aren't very popular. Surprising, as I do see them in use. They don't look good on Alamy, might be part of the problem. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 I have a few panoramas on Alamy, and have sold just two, this being the most recent: I'm not sure they sell that well... Kumar 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveFleming Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 I love making panos and Alamy love selling them, below are some that have sold multiple times. https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?Imageid=63B9577C-6D14-4738-96D0-B0D23B67F862 https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?Imageid=B2E2BE4C-88CE-412E-8400-C989D4A10CAC https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?Imageid=6BE9F077-8F72-4E45-807C-DD80EFEF79C9 https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?Imageid=E6598871-2D32-42C4-8A2D-F70013A73FB4 https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?Imageid=11D02D90-01F3-4993-AA35-317681B20490 https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?Imageid=8F8B5BFB-99FD-4C47-AFBE-6D291A9A310D https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?Imageid=D26C106D-963D-4897-99FD-E781D35F43A1 https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?Imageid=16F49CDF-428C-4D83-947A-9B6B20C9D6E9 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekVallintine Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 I just sold another local pano shot for personal use. Will someone please tell me how to add an image when replying on this forum. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 This one licensed for $$$ for a marketing campaign in early January 2021: It's 10727 x 4773 px so I imagine it could be printed quite large. I find they sell best as fine art - I've had particular luck with an agent who sold 3 nice large ones to hospitals this past year, from 5 to 7 feet long, for hallways and waiting rooms. I think I've had maybe two others licensed here since 2009. And a handful of others on my own or via other agencies. Interestingly, in searching for uses for DACS I've found a few of my photos - some taken long ago with my 12 MP D700 - cropped to wrap around book's covers and backs. I even found one on a Dutch book that I'd cropped into a square used as a two-page spread for cover and back. I guess paperbacks and even most hardcovers are smaller than a magazine spread. In fact, most of the book covers I've found have my image wrap around - probably because I tend to place my copy space off to one side and usually on the left side since I seem to put my rule of third axis on the right. I can only think of one book cover where I licensed a pano that wrapped around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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