GigaPans

Here's Government Plaza in Minneapolis on a balmy April First. That's Hennepin County Government Center on the left and Minneapolis City Hall on the right.

By merest coincidence, this panorama captured a number of gigapanographers, some more than once. Can you find the following people?
Bill Alberts (logdoggy) http://tinyurl.com/y9s7mel
Eric B. (artsci) http://tinyurl.com/ybet4ud
Heinz Beutler (isbaer) http://tinyurl.com/yeosbrt
Black Sand (blacksandhawaii) http://tinyurl.com/yc...

High resolution pan shot from the Alki Beach area across Elliott Bay. The vantage point from which this was shot is very close to that of an earlier pan. The season is different, and this one was shot through a telescope with a 1000mm focal length.

This pan focuses on the main skyline. To include more recognizable landmarks such as the Space Needle would have nearly doubled the size, processing time, and amount of manual intervention required.

I both love and hate this shot. I love it because it is the most ambitious Gigapan I've shot to date (it took five hours to shoot on the night of July 4th - 36 seconds per photo with my Sony Cybershot) -- I hate it because I had the wrong settings on the camera (as you can see by the stripes).

Still, I invite you to zoom in to the various skyscrappers and and see the wonderful detail.

I vow to get back to the balcony I shot this from and get it perfect.

Sincerely,
Michael Hussey
http://...

This panorama is my answer to Kilgore's GigaPan, The View From Above, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=7536. It is not as *grand* as his, but then Houston, Texas is not Bath, England.

Hand-held panorama of the Houston skyline comprised of 44 photos taken in a brisk wind, using a P&S camera, the SX110.

Note: at the altitude of a six-story parking garage, the wind velocity was enough that this panorama could not have been accomplished had I not used image stablization sinc...

If this pano looks a little low, it's because the GigaPan blurred all the top-row images despite the use of the 2-sec self-timer. Let me know if anyone has a fix for this.
Stitching notes:

GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.3865 (Macintosh)
Panorama size: 384 megapixels (39328 x 9775 pixels)
Input images: 48 (12 columns by 4 rows)
Field of view: 126.5 degrees wide by 31.4 degrees high (top=8.9, bottom=-22.5)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: Ca...

This is the pinnacle of my 2009 GigaPan effort :) 1000 feet up looking out on all of Houston ... what an experience, and I may be going back again.

From Wikipedia: The 75-story, 1,002-foot (305.4 m) tall JPMorgan Chase Tower of Houston, Texas, formerly the Texas Commerce Tower, is the tallest building in Texas, the tallest five-sided building in the world, and is the 45th tallest in the world. http://tinyurl.com/5qkn68

This hand-held panorama has been stitched using the GigaPan Stitche...

Note: an earlier GigaPan, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30905 , did not include the panoramic view of Pasadena and the Houston Ship Channel area as does this panorama.

Taken from the 24th floor of Hilton Americas Hotel: http://tinyurl.com/2og9ru

An stunning view of Houston from Galena Park and the Houston Ship Channel area westward to the heart of the downtown area, especially so since there are two pillars not shown in this panorama, but yet the view can almost be considered ...

A view from the 30th-floor observation deck of the Foshay Tower.

Kilgore661's GigaPans: Zoom Baby, Zoom (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/9802/) and Zoom Baby, Zoom - Revisited (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/63157/) motivated me to return to retake one of my more popular panoramas. There are others on gigapan.org that take *high* altitude panoramas versus panoramas taken from mountain tops, one of which is Tom Nelson (atypical is http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/29680/ and his masterpiece: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/46074/) ... thanks to all for th...