Shooting

You’ve heard of panoramas, right? A vertorama—it’s a real term—is a panorama-like image made of vertical slices of a scene stitched together in software. Klaus Herrmann, a German computer scientist, did just that for this interior of the St. Martin Basilica in Weingarten, Germany. It’s five verticals joined together.

Think “wildlife” and you’ll likely think “color”—vivid plumage, multitone fur, brilliant scales, all against backdrops of verdant green and sky blue. So naturally everyone shoots wildlife in color. It’s all the rage these days—particularly in nature shooting—to crank up color saturation to make photos stand out. But while vivid colors certainly catch the eye, sometimes taking the saturation in the other direction can have just as much, if not more, impact.

The cityscapes in Chin Boon Leng’s Flickr stream offer more than 100 colorful and evocative depictions of urban Southeast Asia. Among this Singapore native’s most successful techniques: framing background subjects within the lines created by bridge trellises, columns, highway overpasses, and, as pictured here, monorail tracks.