GigaPans

http://GigapanMagazine.org Volume 3 Issue 5

One of the most difficult panoramas i've made, just because of the location and extreme exposure differences from one corner of the room to the next. A 360-degree, triple-exposure HDR image that took three shooting attempts over the last several months to finally get correct. Tonemapped in Photomatix, Stitched in AutoPano Giga, cropped and corrected in Photoshop.

The abandoned pumping station I found a couple years back near South Mountain R...

Sparrow Hills (Vorobyovy Gory) is one of highest points in Moscow.

Canon 50D, EF 24-105 at 105 mm.
2 rows, 12 columns. Exposure bracketing ±2ev.
Individual HDRs created in PhotoMatix, stitched together in PTGui (stitch time ~2 minutes).

A beautiful July 4th concert featuring the National Repertory Orchestra and the Lake Dillon Theatre performers. See how many American flags you can spot!

Created using a Canon T1i and Gigapan Epic 100. APG output to HDR to Photomatix for tone mapping to accentuate the holiday colors and scenic background, then blended HDR and standard exposure shots by hand in Photoshop to eliminate motion bluring of the people in the scene.

No, you mustn't laugh - I was in a terrible accident.

First serious test of the Epic 100 with my Canon 400D. Shot at f/20 and +/-2 bracketing.

This is a true HDR panorama made from a five-image bracket (-2 to 2EV) of each image. The image sets were batch processed in Photomatix and then sharpened in Photoshop before stitching. The panorama shows moderate flooding of Harriet Island in the foreground. See http://gigapan.org/gigapans/45623/ for another view from this location.

For this gigapan i did 972 photos for 324 individual HDR and then stiched with Autopano

The Basilica de Santa María occupies the site of the former principal mosque of Muslim Elche. The mosque was left standing after the conquest of the city by Jaume I in 1265, until 1334 when the first Catholic church, probably Gothic in style and in the shape of a cross, was built, standing until 1492.
The Mystery Play is believed to have been performed for the first time in the above church, requiring th...

This is another panorama of qimet canyon (see my other one). In this case I set up to do an HDR which I processed with basic tone mapping in photomatrix.

Following a discussion about the pros and cons of tone-mapping at http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/61014/ I was reminded by Texas_Photo of a tone-mapped snapshot of Pulteney Bridge in Bath (http://tinyurl.com/24nywj4/) that I sent him some time ago and which he really liked. Then it dawned on me that I had returned a few days later to try and take a tone-mapped gigapan of the same scene but I couldn't remember having uploaded it. So here it is. As you can see it doesn't have the wonderf...

See http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/64169/ for the story.