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This 360 degree GigaPan from a trail in Schenley Park includes the vine covered bank uphill, and the mid canopy of the forest downhill. This early morning shot was taken with fixed exposure (1/3 sec, f8) and automatic focus. The forest canopy includes red and white oak, Norway maple, sycamore, and tulip tree. |
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This view was taken uphill from a gap in the forest which allowed a good view of the mid canopy. It included bright areas of sky which made it a bad decision to use automatic exposure (aperture priority at f8). Individual photos of the large areas of sky were taken with shorter shutter speeds and everything in those frames is conspicuously darker. The forest canopy includes white and red oak, and Norway maple. |
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This is the first 360 degree GigaPan I made during the May fofs Workshop. It is on a steep forested eastern slope of Flagstaff Hill. The goal was to experiment with the focus and exposure challenges in forests, and to explore the potential for capturing vegetation community information from GigaPans. Ignoring the standard GigaPan protocols, the camera was set for automatic exposure (program mode), automatic focus, ISO 200, and the lens was not zoomed in all the way. The panoramic coverage exceeds 360 degrees, despite the fact that this Web site reports a field of view of 306 degrees. Making this test on a steep slope allowed me to capture the lower forest canopy as well as the forest floor with only two rows of photos. |
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This is the first real GigaPan I took during the May fofs Workshop. The view is from Flagstaff Hill toward the Cathedral of Learning. My goal was to experiment with the challenges of great depth of field and low light in forests, although the distant skyline is the real subject of this shot. The focus in all photos for this image was fixed a bit short of infinity. The exposure was fixed at 1/160 sec and f5.6, which highlights the skyline and reduces the recoverable information about the trees. |