Train Station Commission

Train Station Commission

Good morning friends. Hope you all had a wonderful week, and a chance to spend some quality time with your family and friends over the holidays.  I am on vacation this week and I know what you might be thinking. “His first week back and he is already taking a break”. In fact I am, but that isn’t going stop me from following my new year’s resolution of posting weekly. I have saved this post for a little while, and figure now is a great time to share it. This post will be about my first contracted photography shoot.

Back in May of 2011, I was asked if I could produce a panoramic shot of the Kitchener train station that would be blown up and hung on a wall for a wedding rehearsal dinner. I immediately jumped at the opportunity. But, as soon as I had agreed to the job and hung up the phone the panic set in.

I had never had a picture go off to an actual print shop for production before. I now started to worry about things I never really thought of before. How many pixels does this image need to be? How many shots do I need to take to make the panoramic shot work? Do I need to acquire a permit to take pictures of the train station. All of these questions and more started running through my head. Thankfully I had some resources to help me out with these concerns.

I found out that I did not need to acquire a permit or a model release to take the picture because the image was only being used for personal use. I also figured out that to produce the image at the desired width of 10 feet I would need to stitch together 5 images. These are the images that I took.

I took these 5 pictures into Photoshop and stitched them together. After some cloning and touching up of the images I took them back into Lightroom and added some effects to give the image a little more of an old-fashioned effect. Here is what the final image looked like.

Kitchener Train Station

This was a great first commission for me to do, after I got over the initial stress of the project and figured out exactly what I needed to send to the printer. I would like to thank the Denstedt’s for allowing me to help them with their special occasion.

Here is a picture of the happy couple with the print.

Have a good week.