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This is a big gigapan I shot on Saturday evening. It's a huge Gigapan and took 16 hours to stitch. 47 images wide X 23 images tall totaling 1081 images.
I missed some of the balloons on the first pass so I backed the unit up and reshot a section. The lighter background in the sky was caused when I readjusted the exposure during shooting. The sun was setting fast and light was fading. EDS Credit Union Plano Balloon Festival - Plano, Texas - September 19 - 21, 2008 http://www.planoballoonfest.org/fest-facts.html Enjoy the "Lofty Visions" as 70 magnificent, colorful, hot air balloons fill the skies over Plano Friday at 6:00pm, Saturday at 7:00am and 6:00pm, and Sunday at 7:00am and 6:00pm (weather permitting). Fun for all ages, are the Special Shapes that attend the festival. This year, the special shapes include: High Jack, Miss Daisy, Pandy the Panda, Oggy the Dragon, and Woodrow C. Greenleaf. |
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It was about 10 o'clock on a warm Spring night. The sky was clear of the fog that often shrouds Kotzebue this time of year, and the mountains could be seen on the horizon. We hopped on the ATV's and headed out on the loop road which has quite a few interesting views of the tundra and of town.
We came to this place where the sun was low on the horizon behind town. Wanderwoof set up the Gigapan robot on the tripod for a panorama of Kotzebue, and I played with my Nikon D80, collecting these 44 handheld images, which were stitched with Autopano Pro. You might notice the shadows which confirm the near-360 degree field of view of this photograph. |
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This is a gallery opening for the robotic art results of both the Robot250 open studio and Pittsburgh's very own Rossum's art collective. Information on Robot250 is at http://www.robot250.org |
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Professor Matt Mason's office in Newell-Simon Hall, where he is Director of the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) |
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Addison Oktoberfest 2008 - September 18 - 21, 2008
I shot this yesterday evening on the first day of Addison's Octoberfest. It was still a little early so not many people are around. The guy in the suit with all the medals showed up after I shot the GigaPan so I backed the robot up and reshot him. My friend Joe has a new GigaPan also and we set his up and shot as well. You can see his gigapan unit on the far left. This GigaPan is 7 images high and 63 images wide, 441 total images. Tomorrow I shoot a Balloon Festival, so check back in a few days. Please bookmark this image if you like it or leave me a comment. http://www.addisontexas.net/events/Oktoberfest/ More than 60,000 fans of polka, German food and Paulaner Bier will gather in Addison?s spectacular Addison Circle Park for four days of music, folk dancing, sing-alongs, children?s entertainment and more. Addison?s four-day, authentic German festival is one of the largest Oktoberfest festivals outside of the famed Munich celebration. |
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Mt St. Helens from Suavie Island near Portland Oregon. I took this with a Canon G9 and a 2x teleconverter on top of a Gigapan robot. I should have used RAW because of the contrast. What would have been better would have been a series of autobracketed exposures for this image. It much more practical to process the exposure enfuse / tufuse before you stitch the panorama. I ended up applying a curves layer. It took several trys. I also wish I had enlarged the panorama to include the other mountains such as Mt Hood. |
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Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab demonstrated robots to passersby on Craig Street in Pittsburgh on Park(ing) Day, September 18, 2009.
For more info: http://my.parkingday.org/group/parkingdaypittsburgh http://createlab.ri.cmu.edu/ Photographic notes: Stitched at 50% resolution. This gigapan has problems: The memory card filled up about 90% of the way through shooting, and when I set up for the final 10%, the camera's zoom had changed. The memory card that I used for the first 90% must have been slow, because occasionally it would fail to write the image file, so some pictures in the grid got dropped. I wrote a Python program that looked at the time between pictures to help me locate the gaps, and filled them with a blocky gray photo. Without that I never would have been able to stitch this at all. |
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Simulator training facility at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX |
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The "Mower" Robot250 BigBot by Osman Khan. Created from 52 photos (13x4).
Read more about this BigBot at: http://www.robot250.org/festival/bigbots/khan/ |