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Here it is - my first attempt at a Gigapan. I think I need to work on focusing (and brainstorm some other interesting park sites to photograph!) but overall I'm pretty pleased with the inaugural shoot. |
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This was the site of the Fine Outreach For Science Gigapan workshop. 25 scientists and science journalists were invited to the workshop to learn how to use Gigapan and see demonstrations of how Gigapan can be used in various research activities. The reception at the end of the first workshop was held in the Carnegie Music Hall Foyer, a beautiful space built in the 1890s. Thanks to the Fine foundation for making this possible!
You can see another Gigapan of this reception here: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=23802 Camera settings - I used an SX110 to get this shot. The light level was pretty low, so I had an exposure time 1.6", with focus manually set to about 5 meters out. I lowered my F-stop to 5.0 from my typical 8.0, giving up a little depth of field for a shorter exposure time. ISO was 80, though I probably could have gone to 100 or 200 to shorten exposure time even more. I used a 2 second timer on the camera so that the image was taken only 2 seconds after the button pusher pushed the shutter button; with this exposure I needed to set the time per pic on the Gigapan to about 10 seconds/shot (so the total image took 20 minutes). The static parts of the image came out very crisp, so I'm very happy with this. Naturally, most people don't stay still for 1.6 seconds, so people are in varying stages of blurriness depending on how much they moved. |
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http://GigapanMagazine.org vol 1 issue 1
Taken during a Saturday morning spinning class on the roof of the YMCA in Downtown Pittsburgh. |
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This image was a preliminary study for the creation of a detailed, 360-degree panorama of the Pittsburgh area from the top of the US Steel Tower and produced in conjunction with an investigation being conducted by David Bear at Carnegie Mellon University's Studio for Creative Inquiry. For information: highpointpark@cmu.edu.
View to the north: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/34128/ Snapshots from there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/createlab/sets/72157622524078872/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/createlab/sets/72157622524078872/ A video we shot that day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjuwWYqczq8 Info on the building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_steel_tower To improve on this gigapan, it would be nice to build a rig to (safely) support a Gigapan and camera further out, so that one could see straight down to Grant St. Click 'view in Google Earth' for a good time. |
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Outside the front of Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens are the Sustainable Gardens. These beds harbor plants particularly suited to the Pittsburgh region and require little maintainance and will survive without regular watering. |
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360-degree panoramic view of the Dinosaurs In Their Time exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. |
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Taken through a window from the 36th floor of the Cathedral of Learning. |
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Taken from one of the "mushrooms" along Grandview Ave. on Mount Washington, overlooking Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle and the Monongahela River. |
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The Pittsburgh Penguins face the Ottawa Senators at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh during their first round NHL playoff game on Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
Joe Appel/Tribune-Review |
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This view was taken uphill from a gap in the forest which allowed a good view of the mid canopy. It included bright areas of sky which made it a bad decision to use automatic exposure (aperture priority at f8). Individual photos of the large areas of sky were taken with shorter shutter speeds and everything in those frames is conspicuously darker. The forest canopy includes white and red oak, and Norway maple. |