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Moon over the Southern! As part of the photo excursion “RGS 455 Returns” in August 1997 on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, C&TS 463, relettered and numbered as Rio Grande Southern 455, was posed outside the Chama, N.M., roundhouse for a night open flash photo session (above). The moon in this scene is from a prior exposure with a 400mm lens, as described in the text. Another full moon was digitally copied into a photo of an eastbound Union Pacific coal train on the Dotsero Cutoff in Colorado (opposite) also using the methods detailed in the text.
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A Union Pacific northbound is on the Joint Line at Greenland, Colo. This is from a Hasselblad X-Pan panoramic camera.
tal portion of the image. Ditto for medium format film frames which, when cropped, will leave a section of film equal to two 35mm film frames end to end, the same as the Hasselblad X-Pan. And if you shoot 4×5, you get a full medium format size film strip with this cropping process.
35mm slide shooters can use one of the cameras that switch to panoramic mode in- camera using a switch to cover up the top and bottom portion of the film frame, crop- ping a panoramic format from the 35mm film frame. If your camera lacks this feature, you can compose a panoramic image on just a horizontal half of each 35mm frame, but to project a panoramic image the top and bot- tom of each slide mount will have to be masked off with opaque tape.
Making the Panoramic Print If working digitally, for panoramics with a height of more than eight inches, a 13-inch “wide format” or 16-inch “large format” printer that uses roll paper to print long lengths will be needed. With one of these printers, printing virtually any length de- sired is easy. However, a major problem with large panoramic prints is the size. You do not easily carry a 16×42 inch print around with- out danger of having it get creased, and
these extra large sizes take expensive cus- tom made frames and mats. But the effort can be worth it to obtain an occasional super nice, eye-catching train image for framing. You can also print and cut out two smaller panoramics from one sheet of standard for- mat paper. Sizing each panoramic image to allow some white border, an 8×10 sheet will yield two 3¹⁄₂×9 inch panoramics; a 13×19 sheet will yield two 6×12 or 6×18 inch panoramics; and a 16×20 sheet will yield two 7¹⁄₂×19 inch prints.
Darkroom printing of panoramic images is straight forward. You will have to cut down the extra paper after printing the panoramic through the center of the paper; or to avoid waste, print two panoramics side by side on a sheet of paper and cut them apart. And when all else fails, commercial printers like Bay Photo or Mpix can print spectacular panoramics in the lab and ship them flat to you.
Bonus: Hanging the Moon In Your Photos Since we have some extra room this month, let’s revisit a golden oldie for the film shoot- ers — putting a well-exposed moon into your shots. This technique involves multiple ex- posures on one roll of film and is best done with an older, all-manual film SLR without
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