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It seems that I've gone over a month now without uploading a new GigaPan - remarkable, anyhow in light of the torrid pace I've kept up for most of the last year and a half. Well, the weather is improving and it's time to make an assault on the 300 cumulative gigapixel barrier, so here we go... This shot is another from the FHSU campus, shot in the same general area and same direction as http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=4649 , but from a little further back. Rather than upload the initial Stitcher output with all its flaws, I decided to take the time clean this one up in Photoshop. It turned out to take me almost three times as long to straighten up that lightpole in the center of the image as it took to shoot the image in the first place. Was it worth the effort? Yes, for the practice and experience working with Photoshop, but probably not for the modest aesthetic improvement it adds to the image as a whole. Scott Telstad's screencast (http://www.screencast.com/t/FecO3zrZm2) about removing movement artifacts was instrumental in guiding my editing - I highly recommend it. I wish I could put revised metadata (Stitcher Notes) into this file upon upload - consider that a feature request for future releases of the GigaPan Uploader software. |
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Springtime blooms in the flowerbeds beside Albertson Hall on the FHSU campus. |
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The FHSU Quad on a quiet Saturday morning. |
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The west side of campus - mostly residential dorms. |
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This panorama was an attempt to stitch a 1500 shot (125x12) 360 degree panorama. It took 4 days to stitch, and I fear that the stitch didn't go as well as I originally hoped. That I didn't break the 4 gigapixel barrier suggests the resulting GigaPan is not as large as I was expecting. This may, in part, be due to the fact that I accidentally kicked the tripod and may have caused one image to misalign (without correcting it). We'll have to see what it all looks like once it's up on the site. |
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Sometimes it's just nice to setup the robot and walk away while it shoots for seventy minutes. |
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This footbridge over Big Creek connects the main academic and dorm area of the Fort Hays State University campus with Cunningham Hall and the Gross Memorial Coliseum.
The FHSU campus sits in the floodplain of Big Creek. A 1951 flood on Big Creek covered much of campus and the downtown area. The current path of Big Creek has been rerouted around campus and a large levee has been built up from the excavated material. In 1993 this levee successfully managed to hold back the most recent significant flooding of Big Creek. |
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180-plus degree panorama at the corner of Park Street and South Campus Drive on the campus of Fort Hays State University. Sheridan Hall is the main administration building at FHSU. Sheridan used to be the main gymnasium on campus and now houses the Beach Schmidt auditorium. Jellison Bridge (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2095) is at the left of the image and Picken Hall (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1922) is visible to the right of Sheridan. I was hoping that changing the exposure over South Campus Drive wouldn't be so obvious as it turned out - next time I'll hide it in the trees. |
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View towards the intersection of College and Gustad Drives, Fort Hays State University.
It took a bit of patience to capture this one because this is a surprisingly busy intersection at this time of day. Nonetheless, it was a beautiful spring evening, and it was worth shooting at full zoom because there are lots of little details worth discovering. |
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FHSU geology students - see if you can find them all - are busily at work mapping a small knob that is not long for this Earth. (For more information about our field camp see: http://www.fhsu.edu/geo/) This locality has been a mapping spot for many years on the FHSU Geology Summer Field Camp, and we'll be sorry to see it go. Word is they're leveling it to make room for RV sites at the Molas Lake Campground. Many geology field camps will miss this particular knob as it was a wonderful example of a particular geological landform/process which for the moment will remain nameless. Once I've established it no longer exists I'll divulge what that landform was. Meanwhile, this was a unique opportunity for Gigapan to preserve (in a manner of speaking) a bit of landscape that will soon disappear forever. |