I've shown you the classic, in-camera Holga panoramic. This is quite a bit different. I'd love to say I was original enough to come up with this, but alas, it's a direct rip-off of a technique used by Ted Orland. Not sure if he was the first to do it, or how he came up with the idea, but either way, I have to tip my hat to him, because it's so awesome.
How it's done: It's a lot like digital panoramic stitching. You shoot separate frames and then merge them digitally in Photoshop. Quite a bit more hands on, though, for a number of reasons. You still have to wind the film to a new frame before snapping the next picture, and I like to wind it fully, so there's no overlap in the exposures, and you get that sweet black border on all sides. Rotating a bit between shots, and maybe cocking the angle a bit for interest when the frames get put together. This shot is essentially made of an entire roll of film, 12 exposures. Scan in all the shots, then manually align them as best you can in Photoshop. There's an automatic panoramic function that I use for digital panos, but it will attempt to blend the images, which for this technique is best left to the artist, in my opinion. I tried the auto-align function with the auto-blend turned off, but the black borders confused the program too much, so I just went with the manual alignment. Once the shots were all aligned, I starting changing their stacking order and painting in various masks to create seamless transitions in some areas, but also leaving in the film frame in areas that call attention to the technique. I think this is the sweetest part about this method, and Orland really uses it to great effect, much better than mine here. This is where it really looks different from any other stitched panoramic, and becomes something so much cooler.
-llg