80 gigapixel London panorama breaks city photo record

by Scott Carmichael on

What you see above is the result of an 80 gigapixel panaormic photo of London. The photo was shot in the summer of 2010 from the top of the Centre Point building.

Using 7886 individual images, the creator turned them into a single image. If you look closely at the right image, you’ll barely make out the London Eye – the image on the left if what you see of the London Eye when you zoom all the way in. This shows just how much detail was captured in the picture.

Go ahead and head on over to the site and spend some time browsing your way through one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Other panorama photos we’ve covered in the past include Prague (18 gigapixels), Paris (26 gigapixels), Dubai (45 gigapixels) and Budapest (70 gigapixels).

[Photo from 360Cities.net / Jeffrey Martin]

GigaPan Epic 100 panoramic photo maker gets the Engadget hands-on

by Scott Carmichael on

Back in January, we wrote about an absolutely astounding photo of the Presidential Inauguration. The photo was stiched together from 100’s of individual photos, made with a GigaPan device which controls the camera movements.

Our buddies over at Engadget just took the GigaPan for a spin and made some of their own panoramic photos.

The results are surprisingly good. They had some minor gripes with its weight, but were generally impressed with the unit and its amazing photo stitching software.

So, head on over to Engadget to check out the GigaPan Epic 100, and the results of their panoramic shooting spree using this $449 robot.

World Wide Panorama: Gardens

by Erik Olsen on

I’m not sure how I missed this since I have participated in several of the World Wide pano projects, but I did. I think it has to do with the fact that the WWP people send out notifications about the project via emails and I get so many of them, that I just started deleting them without reading them.

That sucks for me, because I’ve enjoyed shooting panos for this project since early on. And more than that, I’ve enjoyed seeing all the other work of all the other participants. People literally from around the globe shoot and upload beautiful (and sometimes not) panoramic photographs to the WWP site and you can spend lots of time just cruising around and checking them out. Which leads me to the point of it all. The newest project is called gardens and is worth your time.

Each quarter at the equinox for solstice they do a new series, and you’re supposed to shoot your pano according to a theme. Market was one theme, and so forth. So this time around it’s gardens and the interpretations are varied and wonderful, as usual.

Alps Panos

by Erik Olsen on

As a fan and frequent poster here about panoramic photographs, I wanted to bring to your attention a series here from the Alps. These are superbly shot by Jan Zieba. Although they do not go 360 degrees around, the scenery depicted here is breath-taking to say the least. There are shots of mountains, glaciers, lakes and oceans…amazing landscapes. Some really fine work.

World Wide Panorama Evennt Borders

by Erik Olsen on

By the way, I forgot to mention
that the next World Wide Pano event is
happening. I’ve contributed to three or four
of these and find doing them and being a part of this project a really cool experience. The World Wide Panorama
event is sponsored by the Geography Computing Facility at the University of California Berkeley. It’s a non-commercial
project, put together and contributed to by volunteers (like me). I do it to get my
pano work out there and because, well, because it’s an immensely cool project.

Anyway, every
hemispherical solar quarter (or whatever you call the equinoxes and solstices) they hold a new one, and each time there
is a theme of some kind. This spring the theme is Borders, which can really be interpreted anyway you want. I’ve got my
own interpretation which I’ll post about in a week or so when the site is up and running with all the new
contributions. So here’s what you have to do: you need to go shoot your pano NOW and get it done by the 21st. That’s
the last day. Then you have a week or so to build it and then you upload it to the folks at Berkeley. That simple. I’ll
post more about the project in the coming days. But for now, get busy shooting.