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An attempt at the World Record for the greatest number of gratuitous occurrences of the same person in a gigapan (140mm lens) without using Photoshop.
Many thanks to the wonderful Miss Pixie for being so patient! Update: The bar has been raised to 22 occurrences - see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21255. |
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What does the man on the blue exercise ball see when he looks around the recording studio of the TWiT Cottage? See for yourself!
If you log in on GigaPan.org you can take a "snapshot" and comment on items of interest around the studio. It might be interesting to see how many of these can be linked to references in specific netcasts... This nearly complete spherical perspective is best appreciated when viewed in Google Earth. This GigaPan was shot with a Canon SX10 IS camera on the Epic100 robot from GigaPan Systems (http://www.gigapansystems.com/). The GigaPan was stitched from 160 original 10 megapixel images shot as a 20 column by 8 row grid, over a span of about 10 minutes. The resolution of this GigaPan is far less than this camera is capable of (I didn't use full zoom), simply because I didn't want to take more of Leo's time after the show than necessary. There are a number of stitching errors in this GigaPan that are not strictly the fault of the GigaPan Stitcher software. For example, the Stitcher software successfully stitched the chatroom text, but consequently misaligned the edges of the monitor. This reflects the time that passed between images and the fact that the scrolling text has more unique control points for stitching than the monitor edges. Other stitching misalignments may be due to the fact that I didn't actually have the camera's nodal point precisely centered (since this is not generally necessary for the majority of distant landscape shots I've been taking most of my current trip - e.g.: http://ron.outcrop.org/blog/?p=384). |
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A GigaPan of the bookshelf in my office intended to highlight a bunch of my "deskcrops" (geologic specimens I have a fond attachment to) for The Accretionary Wedge #4 (http://www.goodschist.com/2007/12/02/the-accretionary-wedge-4-call-for-submissions/). Unfortunately I didn't have any good way to light the office for photography and thus the images are pretty grainy when you zoom in much. I also didn't use the full zoom capability of the camera in order to keep the stitch a reasonable size. | |||
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Office Bookshelf and Deskcrops contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: The John McPhee Section: ... lots more at home.
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Of the panos I have taken, this one is rapidly becoming a favourite because although it is superficially not much to look at, it has a high degree of zoomabilty. Check out the guided tour at http://www.byteswithbite.co.uk/kilgore/org/auto/gen.htm. (This is very much a proof-of-concept rather than a finished product, but I rather like it.)
There is a slightly larger view of the interesting part of this pano in http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9808. Is three suspension bridges in one pano a record? I believe I have found all the churches that you can see in the Bath portion of this pano - unless you know different! For a similar gigapan do check out Brian Bentham's http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15962. Lots to see there too. |
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Taken over the course of an hour, this is a view of the fields of northwest Ellis County, Kansas in late autumn. I caught an individual shot with an eight point buck just before I set this one up. Don't know if he's hiding in here, but there's certainly lots to find.
This is my first large landscape shot with the Canon SX10 IS at the full 20x zoom. There's a small hole where the camera missed a photo - otherwise I'm very pleased. |
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Roadcut in shales south of Wilson Lake, Kansas. Can you identify it's proper place in the stratigraphy (http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/189/09_meso.html#CRET) of the region? |
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The south side of Devils Tower. Can you find the climbers? How about the birds? | |||
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Devils Tower, Morning Light contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Broken Column: ... leaning on the Tower.
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Distant cliffs of Fort Hays Limestone. Use red/blue glasses to view the anaglyph 3D effect. Created from two 12x3 Gigapan images shot about 1 foot apart. Alignment, cropping, and anaglyph shading done in Photoshop. | |||
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Anaglyph Gigapan Proof of Concept - Saline River Valley, Kansas contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Get out those Red-Blue glasses!: Talk about depth of field!
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A ~100 Ma intrusive igneous rock that is characteristic of Cretaceous granitoids of the Sierra Nevada Batholith.
How many minerals can you identify? |
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An Easter Egg hunt on my front porch. There are three dozen eggs 'hidden', as well as two Easter bunnies, two Mainzelmännchen, one Eeyore, one Rubber Duckie, and if you look really closely you'll find the reflection of the photographer pointing to one of the hidden eggs.
Happy Easter and Happy Hunting!!! [Permission for media use is hereby granted.] |
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A Front Porch Easter Egg Hunt contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Easter Bunny: ... one of them, anyhow.
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