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This is a view of Boulder Colorado from the east of the city looking west towards the mountains. You can see the Flatirons, the University of Colorado buildings, and much of the downtown. On the right you will see US 36, which is the major highway that leads into the city. It has been a particularly rainy spring and summer in Colorado, so the hills are much greener than they typically are at this time of year. This image was assembled from a thousand pictures taken with a Canon T1i, 300mm lens w/ image stabilizer, and Epic 100 and stitched with the Gigapan stitching software. Photoshop was used for some minor post processing to change the exposure and to manually fix motion artifacts in the cars by copying in elements of the saved projected images files created by the Gigapan stitching software. The overall picture was fairly uniform lighting at this type of day, so I did not go with an HDR exposure (also due to the number of pictures that would have required). |
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A 360 degree view of Salt Lake City shot from the Meterolorgy department building on the campus of the University of Utah. To see a live timelapse from this location go to http://www.timecam.tv
The silver stripe is the pole that our timelapse camera sits on. This image took 3.5 days for my computer to process and upload. I think missing images slow the gigapan stitcher down a lot. |
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The two days that I tried to shoot the Tetons at sunrise ended up being cloudy to partly cloudy. The light was better the day I shot this one than the day before (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/30797/), but not what I was hoping for. Nonetheless, I had time to kill while the sun got to work burning off the clouds, so I went for high detail - 4.2 gigapixels worth, as it turns out. |
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No water shortage here. Saguaro Lake is at the 98% full level and boaters love it. All reservoirs on the Salt River are full. Yellow-flowered brittle bush plants cover the ground between the saguaros. After all, this IS a National Forest.
This is my largest pano yet, taken with a Gigapan EPIC and a modified bracket to hold a Canon EOS XTi with a 75-300mm zoom. |
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Full 360 degrees this time. Stitcher 0.4.4329 fixes my 360 issue. Yay GigaPan Team! The ridgeline at the center of South Mountain Park offers a full view of the Phoenix area. From snow capped peaks 50 miles to the east to the open desert of the west this 360 degree pano shows it all. It was not a perfectly clear day but you can still see the snow on Mount Lemmon, over 90 miles away to the south. In downtown, among the high rises you can see a gigantic portrait of Yao Ming, put on the side of the building across from the site of the NBA Allstar Game as part of an advertisement for T-Mobile. All four major sports venues are visible as well as ASU's Sun Devil Stadium. |
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Spectacular Spring day with lots of backcountry skiers in Aspen highcountry out dodging the avalanches |
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... and a more obstructed view of the Snake River, no need to crop his shot, and considerably worse light... |
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The ridgeline at the center of South Mountain Park offers a full view of the Phoenix area. From snow capped peaks 50 miles to the east to the open desert of the west this 360 degree pano shows it all. It was not a perfectly clear day but you can still see the snow on Mount Lemmon, over 90 miles away to the south. In downtown, among the high rises you can see a gigantic portrait of Yao Ming, put on the side of the building across from the site of the NBA Allstar Game as part of an advertisement for T-Mobile. All four major sports venues are visible as well as ASU's Sun Devil Stadium. |
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The southern Phoenix "urban village" of Ahwatukee Foothills as seen from on top of one of the foothills on the south side of South Mountain. This land was un-developed as a residential community twenty five years ago. The owner of much of this land had been International Harvester who operated a proving ground for their heavy equipment. Close to 85,000 people live here in the 'world's largest cul-de-sac' that is isolated from downtown Phoenix by South Mountain. This hilltop is 3.5mi from the exit off of I-10 and is halfway to the last home in the west end of the village. To the south is the Gila River Indian Community, some of which has been developed as a casino and resort. |
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Finally the clouds have cleared enough to get a really nice view of the range front. How many cascades can you find? |