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Hanauma Bay from the steps along the north rim: 25 rows x 70 columns. Mahalo nui loa to Randy Sargent for stitching this beast! Banding, again, due to strong trade winds and continuous cloud banks. Too many people to use the "pause" function efficiently, so I just let the body parts accumulate. |
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Photo was taken from Yurba Buena Island looking West toward Sanfrancisco. Composed of 105 images taken with a Canon 20D mounted on a modified Gigapan panoramic head. EXIF Data: Camera Model: Canon EOS 20D Owner: Chad Pfarr Date/Time: 2008:10:08 15:26:27 Copyright: chad pfarr Shutter speed: 30 sec Aperture: 9 Exposure mode: Manual Flash: Off Metering mode: Multi-segment ISO: 100 Focal length: 200mm Image size: 3504 x 2336 Color profile: IEC 61966-2.1 Default RGB colour space - sRGB |
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High resolution pan shot from the Alki Beach area across Elliott Bay. The vantage point from which this was shot is very close to that of an earlier pan. The season is different, and this one was shot through a telescope with a 1000mm focal length.
This pan focuses on the main skyline. To include more recognizable landmarks such as the Space Needle would have nearly doubled the size, processing time, and amount of manual intervention required. |
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The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge is unique by the fact the bridge goes into and through an island. The Yerba Buena tunnel disects through Treasure Island and is the midpoint of the bridge. Forming part of Interstate 80 and of the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world. Shown in this panorama is the portion of the bridge from San Francisco into Treasure Island. Not seen in this panorama is the 2nd portion of the bridge which spans from Treasure Island to Oakland. The Bay Bridge opened for traffic on November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. |
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This shot was taken of Trunk Bay, US Virgin Islands from the overlook on North Shore Drive. It is the recurrent photograph of the island. I am amazed how well the Gigapan stitcher software did. I?m using 0.4.3510. Some of the shots have a low contrast clouds in them and some have featureless ocean yet the software managed to place the images. I tried this array using Photoshop CS3 using Photomerge and it choked my computer. I can?t even show you what happened because the program hung and went into a ?non responding? state. I also tried PTgui version 8. It required the addition of hundreds of control points which I haven?t completely adjusted. Some of the control point errors arestill extremely large. It appears that Gigapan stitcher is the only program that takes advantage of the precise location of the images to place them in the panorama. Some additional technical details: Imager SN01097, firmware 0.32.1, powered by AA alkaline batteries. Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3 at the 10x zoom setting, auto exposure and auto focus turned on (they can?t be turned off). Computer: HP laptop, 2.0 GHz processor, 3GB of RAM, Vista 32 bit. I?ll go back next week and repeat this photo. I just missed the power boat in the shot, you can see the wake. The left side of the photo may not be interesting enough so I may crop it out. Goodbye! Doug |
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Old dense icebergs that have broken off from the Antarctic ice sheets travel northward through the Southern Ocean, melting and breaking into smaller pieces as they encounter warmer water.
In this shallow bay in the South Orkney Islands, a considerable number of large, dense icebergs have come to rest in water that is still cold enough to maintain them for many years. Because of the big, resting bergs, this place is known as an "iceberg graveyard". This iceberg is being slowly scupltured by waves as it sits serenely anchored in the bay. The dense ice that has very little air incorrporated within, glows intense blue in the dark blue-gray water. The 6 images of this panorama were photographed with a Nikon D-80 and stitched with Autopano Pro. |
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The Esplanade is a premier theatre for performing arts in Singapore. It sits on the edge of the Marina Bay, a man made reservoir. It is separated from the sea by the Marina Barrage.
Paranoma was taken with a Canon 500D. Pretty heavy for the Epic. That causes problem when taking night shots due to the vibrations. Had problems when wind was blowing as the camera is sitting unsteadily on the arm of the Epic device. Some parts of the picture of the picture did not turn out clear due to the vibrations. Used a mutl-shutter mode. 1st click is to turn up the mirror which also allows vibration due to movement of arm to settle down. 2nd click then takes the shot. Appreciate comments on how to improve. |
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On a snowy, sunny day in October |
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Canon S5IS, 8mp
full zoom = 435mm + 1.5 tele-extender = 650 mm equivalent. 1564 frames stitched with Auto Pano Pro Giga 2.0.3, rendered as APP raw format .kro This is the first .kro rendered gigapan uploaded to gigapan.org |
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The top of Gad Cliff offers one of the most spectacular views along the Dorset and East Devon coast World Heritage Site (the Jurassic Coast). Here the rocks have been folded into a huge ‘S’ shaped kink as the result of earth movements about 15 million years ago. In the foreground, Kimmeridge Clay together with Portland and Purbeck strata, lie in the southern side of the fold and are dipping steeply to the north. In the distance, the same rocks are level as they are located away from the fold. This huge structure, known as the Purbeck Monocline, runs east to west across Purbeck, dominating the landscape.
For more information visit: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/kimgad.htm http://www.coastlink.org/kimmeridge/ |