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Hanauma Bay

By:Richard Palmer (Apapane) on May 19, 2008
Tags: hanauma , oahu , hawaii , beach , fofs , beta

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This is the same Hanauma Bay panorama as http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=4450. It's 70 columns X 25 rows of individual 8 megapixel frames stitched almost seamlessly by the GigaPan stitcher. Wave movement and people movement result in some interesting, often fun, stitching results, though.

Mahalo nui loa to Scott Telstad for fixing the exposure anomalies on the fully stitched image.

Date Taken: May 19, 2008
Date Added: May 19, 2008
Bookmarked: 30 times
Total Views: 604142 views
Gear: Gigapan Beta2 with Canon S5-IS
Snapshots: 316
Size: 5.63 gigapixels
Field of View: 163.0 degrees wide, 38.4 degrees high


comments
May 19, 2008 23:29 Flag as inappropriate

Wow! At first I thought you reshot this Gigapan on a less cloudy day, but then I noticed that you got everyone to pose in exactly the same places, too! Nice job of cleaning up the exposure differences. That must have been a monumental effort. I can't wait to see how you realign the waves in version #3. :-P

Posted by rschott
May 20, 2008 12:29 Flag as inappropriate

5.63 gigapixels ... SO HUGE :D It's amazing

Posted by payam195r
May 20, 2008 14:02 Flag as inappropriate

I want to know how you cleaned this up. Wait, I'll ask you the day after tomorrow!

Posted by illah
May 21, 2008 01:37 Flag as inappropriate

wow, very impressive! How many images did you take to get such a high res??

Posted by kruegerson
May 21, 2008 10:20 Flag as inappropriate

This panorama is 25 rows x 70 columns. I used the Canon Powershot S5-IS at full zoom plus the 1.5X tele-extender. The entire image took nearly 2 hours to shoot. There were lots of fun conversations with Hanauma Bay visitors, though. :^)

Posted by Apapane
May 21, 2008 16:24 Flag as inappropriate

I also want to know how you cleaned up the exposure differences! I think cleaning up my images before stitching is my next big gigapan frontier.

Posted by Rich
May 29, 2008 13:30 Flag as inappropriate

What "fofs" mean? (your tag)

Posted by payam195r
August 31, 2008 04:47 Flag as inappropriate

AWesome - 5.63 gigapixels made my jaw drop to the ground !! Good job - how did you guys fix the different exposures issue?

Posted by mordani
August 31, 2008 05:12 Flag as inappropriate

Scott Telstad, an intern at CMU West/NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA, used PhotoShop to remove the banding on the fully stitched, 5.92 gigapixel image. He then cropped it to the current 5.63 Gigapixels. BTW, the fofs tag stands for "Fine Outreach for Science", a grant to CMU given by the Fine Family Foundation of Pittsburgh for the initial beta testing of the GigaPan by scientists using the unit in the field. I was lucky enough to have been selected as one of the first seven recipients of the GigaPan unit.

Posted by Apapane
October 3, 2008 05:40 Flag as inappropriate

Hey folks, i want to know what kind of Memorycard you have used to realise such kind of image with 75x25 8 Mpixel images? And maybe you can tell me how long the stiching prozess have taken? I hope i get my GiganPan next Week Best regards from Germany Eric

Posted by darkdiver
October 3, 2008 14:19 Flag as inappropriate

Eric, I use 8 & 16 Gigabyte SDHC cards with my Canon S5-IS, and save the images at the highest resolution .jpg, since this camera does not support RAW images. This panorama filled one 8 GB card. The gigapan was stitched at the Carnegie Mellon University research lab at the NASA center in Mountain View, California. Judging from some of my other gigapans, the stitching took at least 18 hours.

Posted by Apapane
November 26, 2008 21:46 Flag as inappropriate

does any body know what program he used (or program i should use)??? i have full sky pics so i need to be able interactively move the images thanks

Posted by gigapan217
November 27, 2008 01:49 Flag as inappropriate

Paul, Please elaborate on your question. Do you want to know what program was used to stitch the image, or what program was used to take out the banding?

Posted by Apapane
November 27, 2008 20:55 Flag as inappropriate

i would like to know what program you used to stitch the image please. because im trying to sitch an image but there are pictures that are only sky and i havnt been able to find a program that can handle it. thank you

Posted by gigapan217
November 27, 2008 21:21 Flag as inappropriate

Paul, The image was stitched using the dedicated GigaPan stitcher. If you took your panorama with the GigaPan camera mount, then it should stitch just fine using the GigaPan stitcher. So far, after much experimentation with other software, it's the only program capable of stitching large areas of sky, or other solid color. If you use a tripod/manual pano-head combo, or shoot hand held, good luck. AutoPano Pro V2.0, due out, hopefully, by the new year, should be able to accomodate large areas of sky/solid color. In the meantime, you might try Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) - it's a free download, or the photo-merge capability of PhotoShop CS3. Also, try looking at the AutoPano Pro forum, and, if you have the GigaPan unit, the GigaPan forum; you might find more help at one of those venues. The Comments section on individual gigapans is not the place for this kind of discussion. That said, I hope one of my suggestions bears fruit for you. Aloha, Richard

Posted by Apapane
April 30, 2009 18:20 Flag as inappropriate

Hi, i know all comments seem to love this. I think it's awfull. the foreground is a mishmash of mediocre stiches. Tons of errors and ghosts. Sorry, not impressed.

Posted by floris
May 1, 2009 02:50 Flag as inappropriate

Floris, I hope you try to take a 1750 frame (at ~650mm) gigapan of a major tourist destination and NOT have any movement, be it waves, people, or clouds. You don't have to like it - just understand the conditions under which the panorama was taken, EARLY in the Beta phase, too. I took it SPECIFICALLY to push the limits of the stitcher so that the GigaPan Team could improve their program. I paused the GigaPan unit on many occassions, but too many people were passing through - but, that's just part of the process, and the fun.

Posted by Apapane
June 24, 2009 07:06 Flag as inappropriate

http://triopetra.tk/ super

Posted by triopetra