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Thus should really be called, "Play on Light," for there are colors, and different zones and some tones and shadows and bright to intense sunlight and even reflections, not to mention some cool looking architecture and granite slabs that you won't find anywhere else ... its got everything!
I was there to capture the sunlit door, the east door going into the chemistry building, Keck Hall. This time of the year, to see the golden color of the door, you have to be there early and the effect only lasts for a few minutes. Because of the early time, I was not expecting many people to be around, especially students and I was surprised to see a couple of students studying (one you will see, but the other left with his friend for breakfast), a Rice Dad and his young son, Landry, named after another Texan, Coach Landry. After the panorama started, all of a sudden, Susannah appeared with her boy friend, a Rice post doc and their two dogs and all agreed to be in my Gigapan. Please compare this Gigapan to a previous Gigapan from a month earlier: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?auth=f1d3c7ab9c51c27b4ab6eeb3222b3398 Notice that the trees have changed their appearence. It is good fortune that I walked away from completing it, otherwise I would not have had a great panorama as what I have with this panorama of Susannah. As always, this Gigapan looks great when viewed in Google Earth via the GE link and was taken in the same area as one of my earliest Gigapans: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=6656 And if you go to: http://www.pbase.com/texas_photo/image/87015471 you will see that this window that we see the reflection is one of my favorite locations on campus. |
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The two earlier GigaPans of Emma, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23013, and of Jennifer, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23002, were extracted from this because the first attempt to stitch a 360-degree panorama of the Academic Quad failed. Because of some help from the GigaPan community, the files were restitched and this is the result. Note: The snapshots that I have created have a link that will take you to a memorable GigaPan, which was taken this past school year... lots of wonderful memories. The view in Google Earth is pretty exciting, but remember, I am biased :) |
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Update: The actual 360-degree GigaPan has been successfully stitched and can be seen here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23597.
On this special day before Commencement, Jennifer, with the support of her friends, endures sunlight to have a GigaPan taken of her achievement. We also see Rebecca and Erin as they are walking across the Academic Quad. This was intended to be a 360 panorama, but encountered some sort of stitching problem, which forced me to make two GigaPans from the 360. The other, Emma and Willy in the Academic Quad, can be seen here: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23013 This GigaPan clearly demonstrates why, when taking a GigaPan(s), I desire blue sky so much. Note: The GigaPan had to be taken when it was taken... *sadly* the clouds gave the initial exposure reading a most difficult time, but all-in-all, considering the circumstances, I would hope that you consider this to be breath-taking :) If I had waited later or earlier, then we would have never seen the special people that we see in these two GigaPans. |
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Last year after I had received my GigaPan robot, I was fortunate to come upon the Sally Ride Science Festival and had taken a GigaPan (http://gigapan.org/gigapans/11021/). Today, I was again lucky and arrived to discover that this was the day for the 2009 Festival.
This panorama could easily become a big-time favorite of mine for it has lots to see... a good size moon rock, two solar telescopes and one of Rice's finest, a RPD officer, who I have had the pleasure of knowing for several years, who you can see in one of the snapshots. This panorama is comprised of 26 photographs, which were taken with a Nikon D-70 using a Nikkor 28-80 f/3.3-5.6G lens and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer). Additional information can be found when clicking Stitcher Notes ... this panorama was taken in 40 seconds. |
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This was taken at about 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon in early December... just two guys out with their Gigapan robots and having a good time.
To see Zoltan's version of this panorama, click on: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=13505 And to see my Gigapans taken either of the Engineering Quad or close to it, click on: http://tinyurl.com/58r2cy |
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This is what one sees as they leave the east door of Fondren Library. |
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Lots to see in this 360 panorama: The three granite slabs, the different schools and labs and the artwork (figural relief sculpture) at the entrance to Abercrombie Laboratory.
Note: In the title to this GigaPan, I included three degree symbols and because of the symbols, when the GigaPan opened in Google Earth, it failed. Now it works since I deleted the symbols. |
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Back to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/countingphotons/4107962241/ |
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The FHSU Quad on a quiet Saturday morning. |
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The first-love of my GigaPan life was this Leica D-Lux 3 and I have brought it back to active use because of the soft-focus panorama I took of Belinda and the Cougars on UofH campus a few days ago. Although the Leica does not have the zoom that the Canon SX110 has, it has never provided blured images of any student on the campus of Rice University. Where the panorama was taken from is at the west side of the Academic Quad, a few feet in front of Fondren Library (remember its Friday, and I am usually here every Friday afternoon). Again, this hand-held 360-degree panorama was taken with a Leica D-Lux 3 and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software and additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run. Note: This gorgeous panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer). |