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 The narrative to my panorama is a girl who has a closet full of clothes and tons of options to pick from but she claims that she has nothing to wear because she can’t decide. This photo is an exaggeration because of the abnormally long closet and selection of clothes. In the photo, I made the closet look large by having the photos surrounding the character/girl be taken closer to the clothes, making the closet look bigger and the girl smaller.

         Some potential titles for this photo are “Tons of options but nothing to wear”, “Indecisive”, “All the same” etc., I would most likely use the 1st title because it does the best job describing the narrative of the photo in the fewest words possible. The 1st title also includes the idea of indecisiveness in the title so it captures 2 points at once. Some techniques I used while creating this panorama was the burning method for the 1st image, burning is where a photo becomes darker in an area where it is too light. To burn the image, I took a cardboard sheet with a hole pierced through the center and after the photo was printed for the first time then I let it print it second time but this time I quickly hovered the cardboard over the photo paper to allow light to hit the area where the image should be darker. The burning method turned out to be a success.

         Some of the things I liked about this photo was contrast in the black and white in the last 3 photos, I also liked the position and body language of the character. I like how he reaching hand gesture looked almost curious-like and she was pulling one of the clothing items to look at it but didn’t seem impressed by the selection. However, some of the thing I didn’t like about the panorama was how the 1st image doesn’t blend very well with the other 3 photos, and how some parts are nearly gray. I also don’t care for the transition of the 3rd and 4th images because of the sudden black to gray transition, I could improve that by cropping out the gray clothing in the 4thimage, so that the black clothing would soften the blend between the photos.

            In conclusion, this narrative panorama is about being indecisive and having to many clothes to wear, but still claiming not to have enough. There are good aspects to this photo but there are still some improvements that could be made. Overall this panorama was a good representative of my narrative.