MetaFilter posts tagged with panorama and photography

Too bad Hillary's eyes are closed.

googly — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:48:25 -0800

How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address. Using gigapan processing, photographer David Bergman patched together 220 separate photos for one remarkable shot.

Panoramic view of the Airbus A380 cockpit

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:40:53 -0800

It's a small cubicle you have toshare, but the view is pretty good.

Video Panorama

bluedaniel — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:31:53 -0800

A most unusual panorama: a proof of concept combining 180 degree panorama photography along with camera movement. The camera mounted with a fish-eye lens is placed on a trolley traveling in a circle.

Behold, the zoomable panorma

Dave Faris — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:55:25 -0800

Science Daily reports that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking panormamic images called Gigapans.

High Quality Photos of Scilly.

Effigy2000 — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:10:31 -0800

Scillywebcam. A frequently updated website with high quality photographs of Scilly. Here are some of my favorites.

Quicktime panoramas of Kyoto

carter — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:05:35 -0800

Quicktime panoramas of Kyoto

Finally, an easy way to share panorama images

SharQ — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:47:07 -0800

The main problem with panorama photography is that good photo stitching software is expensive and often difficult to use. Then when you have finally managed to put together a good panorama, it's nigh-on impossible to share it with your friends. Scrolling back and forth on your screen is possible, of course, that's so un-Web 2.0!

CleVR offers a possible solution with a free, embeddable Flash viewer for panorama photographs, with some cool outdoors, groovy indoors and some downright surreal stuff already available.

Turkey Cinemascope

ztdavis — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:12:10 -0800

Turkey Cinemascope is a series of dramatic photographs from director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Shot all across Turkey, he used them to record locations he was scouting for his films. Many are panoramic, some are epic, others intimate, and all are beautiful. (via and via)

Death Valley Slideshow

hortense — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:34 -0800

Death Valley car trip photos including some panoramas of the racetrack and its mysterious stones, and cute kids. via

a new dimension in automatic image stitching

crunchland — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:38:24 -0800

Autostitch is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This is the first solution to stitch any panorama completely automatically, whether 1D (horizontal) or 2D (horizontal and vertical). Don't miss the gallery.

Hanoi Panoramas

MetaMonkey — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:39:30 -0800

Hanoi Panoramas
Beautifuly atmospheric 360 degree photography in the streets of Hanoi, by Vietnamese photographer Thinh Le. Also black and white panoramas of Downtown Saigon and Chaudoc. A little info on the camera and technique.

360-degree panoramic galleries of European cities

funambulist — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:07:33 -0800

Arounder has an ongoing collection of high-quality full screen Quicktime VR panoramas of European cities, focusing on famous artistic and cultural landmarks (in Rome, Florence, Köln, Barcelona, Cyprus), with interactive maps and travel information. A collaboration with national tourist offices by Swiss company Vrway Communication, which also publishes Vrmag, a bi-monthly review of panorama photography, and the FullscreenQTVR directory in collaboration with the well-known panoramas.dk (previously mentioned on metafilter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

New Year's Eve Around the World

Ljubljana — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:41:33 -0800

New Year's Eve From Around the World. Beautiful 360^o panoramas from the first few minutes of 2006 in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Minneapolis, Ljubljana and elsewhere. [Note: Some of the panoramas also have sound]

Big Eye in the Sky

panoptican — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:46:20 -0800

Big Eye in the Sky. A collection of absolutely incredible 360 degree panoramas by St. Paul photographer Ed Fink of the Twin Cities, Mt. Rushmore, the Post-Katrina Gulf Coast and more. He claims to be the first photographer in the world to do full spherical (180 x 360) panoramas from a helicopter. The effect is truly spectacular. Those with vertigo beware.

Goetze

tellurian — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:27:00 -0800

500 panoramic views of parks in 'quality' order. [QTVR] Here are the full screen VRs. All by Erik Goetze.

Virtual Rome

peacay — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:20:24 -0800

Virtual Rome [via]

Panoramic Louvre Museum Photos

planetkyoto — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 06:57:39 -0800

The Louvre 360 by Virtual Sweden(?) has panoramic photos of the museum. Press 'SHIFT' to zoom in, 'CTRL' to zoom out. Panorama-o-Rama.

Not enough adjectives

panoptican — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:38:09 -0800

360°, semi-panormaic, bullet-time, mega-wicked light graffiti. That is all. [via]

Apollo 11 - 17 Mission Panoramas

AlexReynolds — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:24:41 -0800

Apollo 11 - 17 Mission Panoramas - Hans Nyberg treats us with a stunning full-screen use of QTVR, taking high-resolution scans of Apollo 11, 12 and 17 panoramic photographs, stitching them together for a full 360° view. [from Slashdot]

A world wide panorama shoot.

Ljubljana — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 03:56:56 -0800

A world wide panorama shoot. On Saturday, March 20, more than 170 photographers in 39 countries around the world celebrated the Equinox by creating VR panoramas. This site showcases the results of their efforts. (Quicktime needed)

Japanese Railway Train Panoramas

carter — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:13:43 -0800

Kazumi Namiki uses a slit camera to capture panoramic pictures onto a whole roll of film. He uses his slit camera to take photographs of Japanese railway trains; lots and lots of trains. [via boingboing]

panorama

crunchland — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:39:35 -0800

Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991 ~ 4000+ images archived, courtesy of they US Library of Congress.

World Heritage Tour Panoramas

Irontom — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:06:10 -0800

The World Heritage Tour is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a documentary image bank with panoramic pictures for all of the UNESCO World Heritage sites [warning: frames]. Examples include the tomb of Sety I, discovered in 1817 and permanently closed to the public in 1991 and the baroque churches of the Phillipines. [more inside]

Self Portrait with Gran

gravelshoes — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:26:21 -0800

Self Portrait with My Grandmother. A rather beautiful way of meeting the ancestors at Modern Ruins

Panoramic 360° Photos

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 01:32:29 -0800

Panoramania: Big screen adventures for the discerning armchair traveller. Less discerning small screen 360° fans also catered for.[A companion-piece to mediareport's post below, first link requiring Quicktime.]