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Seatown, Dorset at 9:30am.
I went to Seatown with my friend Igor many years ago. We camped in a field right next to the beach and a pub that did good food, and I remembered it as very pleasant spot. So when my friend - fossil-head cmlbath - told me that it was one of the best places in the country for fossils, I suggested we go there and we did. There is a companion shot taken from the beach here: http://tinyurl.com/qslfgy. As you can see, the camp site has grown somewhat! It even has its own sewerage treatment plant. However, this unsavoury fact aside, I enjoyed my stay there. This surprised me because the camp site is big and quite noisy in the evenings with children running around screaming etc. Then I discovered that I rather liked being there because it reminded me of my childhood and how exciting it was to camp and in a place like this in particular. I nearly channelled the spirit of my childhood self and started running around screaming myself. I like this shot very much. My normal reaction when seeing a wonderful coastal view with a camp site like this is to bemoan the visual blight of coastal camp sites. But it struck me that there are all sorts of tiny everyday details in this shot and it is to be much preferred over boring landscape panoramas (imo of course). Also, I have taken a number of gigapans where in principle one could see cmlbath looking for fossils but for one reason or another he is not actually in the shot. But at last I have captured the man in action. 10 points for the first person to snapshot him. (2 points for spotting his car.) If you are a relatively new cmlbath-spotter, you may find this image useful: http://tinyurl.com/ltsu7o. |
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This is a 360 degree Panorama of the Aumndsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole Antarctica.
This was taken on 7-28 during the afternoon at a temperature of around -90F with a windchill of -130F. The moon in the shot was only a slight crescent but is incredibly bright. When the moon is not around we are surrounded by total darkness, unless we happen to be graced by a beautiful aurora! I was lucky enough to catch this nice aurora along with the moon. The moon is so bright down here that it mutes out the sky, making shots of stars quite difficult. I have to move very fast while taking photos down here as my batteries freeze quite quickly and even my tripod freezes and no longer will rotate... Normally I keep a headlamp with me, but this time I had forgotten it while in a rush to capture the dissipating aurora, so had to shoot with whatever I had last set the camera at, and had to hope i didn't bump the rings since i wouldn't be able to see to change anything. Unfortunately while walking out to this point to take the photos I bumped the focal ring on the lens and ever so slightly causing the pictures to bit out of focus, but the pano was so beautiful I couldn't just toss it. These images were taken with a Canon EOS-1D Mark II at 16mm, f-stop 2.8 for 30 second exposures. *edit: You can see each of the constellations drawn in over the skyline here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=31101 |
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This is not one of the sharpest images ever. In fact some of it is really blurry because it was taken in a howling gale at x15 zoom (530mm, 35mm equivalent) - at one point my tripod (made from cast iron by the weight of it) blew over.
I've posted it for a couple of reasons. First, it is an amazing view and I hope this image will inspire someone with better luck (I tried for several hours on each of two days) to capture the scene perfectly. Second, I wanted to advertise the fact that although this was shot with a GigaPan unit, it is made from two sets of images that do not line up so I tried using Autopano Giga RC1 to stitch it, and stitch it it did! I think this is quite remarkable given how blurry the original images are - all the grass in the foreground is completely out of focus too. NB for those of you who know about RC1's ability to import GigaPan images, I did *not* use this function - i.e. the stitcher stitched the 600+ images as if they were a mosaic - incredible! Finally, some of you may be wondering why I have put a gigapan in this gigapan. More of you may not have even noticed it in the bottom right corner. NB it is not a thumbnail it is the full thing http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9168. Ok, it is the smallest possible gigapan (0.05Gpix) but it is a gigapan that many people have enjoyed exploring. It is not my intention to show off. The reason is to show people how big gigapans can be. If you have spent time exploring The Jolly Sailor then you'll be astonished to see how much bigger this gigapan is. If anyone from Kolor is reading this and would like to show us what their Yosemite pano looks like with my gigapan embedded in it then they are very welcome! |
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North New Jersey in late summer.
The moving clouds affected the exposure of some areas but the resolutions are equally clear across the whole pano. Another high resolution (HR) gigapan for the suburb of New York City, the New Jersey side of lower Hudson River, including Jersey City/Newport, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, etc., is here: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/33920/ For the extension view (to th right) of this gigapan, please click here: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/35825 A similar view but taken in the fall is here: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/36611/ |
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. Description of Cloud Gate (from official Millenium Park website - http://www.millenniumpark.org/ ) Cloud Gate (aka "The Bean") is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives. Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high. Cloud Gate sits upon the At&T Plaza, which was made possible by a gift from AT&T. Kapoor's Discussion of Cloud Gate: "What I wanted to do in Millennium Park is make something that would engage the Chicago skyline…so that one will see the clouds kind of floating in, with those very tall buildings reflected in the work. And then, since it is in the form of a gate, the participant, the viewer, will be able to enter into this very deep chamber that does, in a way, the same thing to one's reflection as the exterior of the piece is doing to the reflection of the city around." About the Panorama: 11 portrait-mode images were stitched together to create this image. There are many wonderful pictures of the Bean on Flickr - these are some of the very best - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmah_v/galleries/72157622779850820/ Checkout our "Chicago Skyline" Gigapan taken from Grant Park with Buckingham Fountain in the foreground: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/35434/ |
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This is a test of a technique to capture action in low light. I used the Canon G10 to capture the scene at .25-.60 second, ISO 80, accepting the fact that I could not capture peak action. I then shot action with the Nikon D3 at ISO 1000 and patched those parts into the scene in Photoshop. The Canon fits the GigaPan but has poor high-ISO performance; the Nikon works superbly at high ISOs but won't fit even the Epic 100. Let me know if you think the result is realistic. This GigaPan has been sized down to fit the 3K-per-side limit for JPG files-- the larger TIFF and RAW files would not upload.
Gibbons are apes, not monkeys. These gibbons come from Southeast Asia. There are seven gibbons, eleven ducks and an English sparrow in this image -- can you find them all? Stitching notes: GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.3865 (Macintosh) Panorama size: 1166 megapixels (46842 x 24910 pixels) Input images: 140 (14 columns by 10 rows) Field of view: 101.0 degrees wide by 53.7 degrees high (top=23.9, bottom=-29.8) Settings: All default settings Original image properties: Camera model: Canon PowerShot G10 with Raynox DCR-1540 tele convertrer Image size: 4416x3312 (14.6 megapixels) Capture time: 2009-06-27 12:32:30 - 2009-06-27 12:50:49 Exposure: 0.25 - 0.6 at f/8 ISO: 80 Focal length (35mm equiv.): 219 Exposure mode: Manual Horizontal overlap: 23.4 to 36.9 percent Vertical overlap: 17.1 to 40.4 percent Camera model: Nikon D3, 70-210mm Nikkor Exposure 1/80 at f/8 ISO: 1000 Focal length (35mm equiv.): 210mm Computer stats: 8192 MB RAM, 4 CPUs Total time 1:55:41 (0:49 per picture) Alignment: 5:44, Projection: 14:46, Blending: 1:35:10 |
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On the roof of the Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano; Milanese: Domm de Milan) is the cathedral church of Milan in Lombardy, northern Italy. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi.
See the Milan Cathedral as high resolution panorama http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=12474 or another panorama from the roof: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=12507 This is a spherical 360° panorama best viewed with Google Earth, there you will also find out what the shining metal is... |
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The gallery is currently showing work by Mitchell, H. R. Giger and H. Natalevičius. See http://www.darkblackart.com/ for details.
A gigapan of the Giger room is here: http://tinyurl.com/giger661. Unfortunately the work by Natalevičius is not in focus, so I have included a separate image here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=13763. To see what goes on behind the brown door, see http://tinyurl.com/5lfyot. To see some of Mitchell's earlier work, see http://tinyurl.com/6fvpcm. For those of you interested in gigapan applications, see http://www.myspace.com/darkblackart for a good use of embedded gigapans. |
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This shot was inspired by Payam Rahmani's fantastic shot http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9577. I can't hope to compete with Payam's shot, but when I was little boy, all sweet shops used to look like this. Sadly they are very few and far between these days, but they are unmistakeably part of my culture.
This shop is really worth visiting - they even sell Parma Violets! Update: what is it with gigapanographers and sweet shops? Jurassic Coast Gigapan workshop participants Daisy and Cleo were spontaneously drawn into a sweet shop for their first gigapanographic shoot out in the field: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=19673. |
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Here is a belatedly uploaded image of our thanksgiving dinner in Pennsylvania this year, made primarily out of New York Times recipes we found just this year. We think it was a hit! |