Some wild pano shots

**PappaG** · 07-07-2009, 04:50 PM

Just stumbled upon this while searching for some stitching software ... pretty wild stuff with the help of Hugin.

Link: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tag...n/interesting/ - keep scrolling down as there's apparently 14,000 images.

Some examples:

**Wes Mantooth** · 07-07-2009, 05:24 PM

holy fuck, the only one I could basically see was the 2nd to last one

**blackhand** · 07-07-2009, 06:28 PM

i love how it looks like individual planets

portraits done like this could be awesome like in the third to last picture

**7cs** · 07-07-2009, 10:54 PM

That's really cool, especially the free part!

**gpetrics** · 07-08-2009, 07:40 AM

holy hell! i'm gonna try some of these!

edit: That was fun.... here's the result from an old mosaic:

http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/skiing-an-orb/

definitely needs improvement (e.g. actually thinking about this when taking the photo). i used gimp... seemed to do some really aggressive distortion that I didn't like. I wonder if photoshop does a better job? seems like i'll need to play with where to place the "ground line" and "sky line" to tweak the appearance of the orb...

**Poop~Ghost** · 07-08-2009, 10:16 AM

cool orb shot gpetrics

**iscariot** · 07-08-2009, 11:07 AM

You is talking loco...and I like it!

**dipstik** · 07-08-2009, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by blackhand

portraits done like this could be awesome like in the third to last picture

Check out the "peripheral portraits" by Andrew Davidhazy, a prof at RIT. I don't really know how to explain it, but its sort of a 360 degree reverse panoramic camera. The subject stays stationary, and the camera he built moves 360 degrees around them, taking pictures at every angle, but all on the same piece of film.

**cmor** · 07-08-2009, 11:43 PM

I gave it a go with what I had on hand, I think I'll try to take one the next couple of days that would work better

**gpetrics** · 07-09-2009, 11:34 AM

cmor: what was (roughly) the ratio of the pano you started with? i've found 4:1 width:height to be about the best to minimize the distortion... i'd say your's is maybe even wider than that... though that's just an eyeball estimate...

i'm gonna do the math later this afternoon to figure out exactly what it should be... and where the distortion gets minimized... just trying to figure out what the answer is roughly at this point...

**blackhand** · 07-09-2009, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by dipstik

woah his stuff is awesome thanks for the tip

**cmor** · 07-09-2009, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by gpetrics

cmor: what was (roughly) the ratio of the pano you started with? i've found 4:1 width:height to be about the best to minimize the distortion... i'd say your's is maybe even wider than that... though that's just an eyeball estimate...

i'm gonna do the math later this afternoon to figure out exactly what it should be... and where the distortion gets minimized... just trying to figure out what the answer is roughly at this point...

It's really wide, about 5:1. I did in in photoshop, I'd like to try the hugin path but can't figure out exactly how to do it. This a tutorial on their site related to it but I can't figure out how to import and equirectangular image and move it into a stereographic projection

Edit: Tried 4:1. looks about the same

**cmor** · 07-09-2009, 08:10 PM

Try #2, used Hugin

**gpetrics** · 07-10-2009, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by cmor

Try #2, used Hugin

that's alot better.... for whatever reason.... i like the electric wire going down to "the planet". would you mind posting the original (before the transformation to polar coordinates)?

**PappaG** · 07-13-2009, 11:20 AM

Got around to working with Hugin a bit more over the weekend, but haven't done anything creative yet. The photo stitching abilities seem to be pretty good as the pictures below were done with 10-25 photos per pano - even with bodies moving around, the software did a decent job minimizing ghost figures.

**Lane Meyer** · 07-13-2009, 11:28 AM

Thanks for the tip on the software. Have to give that a try.

You guys should check out my buddy Will Essig's shots, he does similar panoramic compositions, and some of his shots are spectacular.

http://www.doubleue.com/

**gpetrics** · 09-28-2010, 06:18 AM

Have made a few more attempts at this since last summer

Details: 10mm on a crop sensor (canon 40d), 360 degrees on top of mt abe in VT, tilted slightly down.

Also did this one from the middle of one of the high alpine lakes of New England just before making a schuss (was waiting for a splitboarder to transition, and hence had a few minutes :P)

i actually don't have the technicals on this second one right now, but it is also 360 degrees

**Aenigma** · 09-28-2010, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by dipstik

Check out the "peripheral portraits" by Andrew Davidhazy, a prof at RIT. I don't really know how to explain it, but its sort of a 360 degree reverse panoramic camera. The subject stays stationary, and the camera he built moves 360 degrees around them, taking pictures at every angle, but all on the same piece of film.

These are awesome! The other panos posted seem to just be a demonstration of an effect, which to me is boring after about 10 seconds or so.

**DeathVan** · 09-28-2010, 02:07 PM

Intriguing to say the least

Does anyone do this underwater?

**gpetrics** · 09-29-2010, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by Aenigma

These are awesome! The other panos posted seem to just be a demonstration of an effect, which to me is boring after about 10 seconds or so.

that's fair... i like perfecting photo styles and techniques i guess. there's a big difference to me between just coming up with/learning a technique and coming up with a first example, as opposed to sticking with it and getting it as dialed as possible within my skill level (and sharing/learning from others' efforts--which is what I thought this board was about)...

of course more highly skilled folks will no doubt get from first example to mastery much faster than me...

**Aenigma** · 09-29-2010, 12:09 PM

If you guys want to do some really weird panos, build a slit-scan camera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slit-scan_photography

I kind of want to make one that takes 120 film, or adapt a back for my 4x5 that will do it.

**farmer** · 09-30-2010, 12:19 AM

if you are looking for another great pano software, I've switched from hugin to microsoft ICE. its a free one that I found works better and faster than hugin. managed to put together a 21 picture pano that I took (3 rows of 7 shots) that I took handheld, and didn't line up at all with photostitch, sort of worked in hugin, and was perfect AFAIK in ICE.

**gpetrics** · 09-30-2010, 10:42 AM

woah that feature list and demo looks pretty cool... can't get it to load on ubuntu though :/

**geomorph** · 02-28-2013, 07:13 PM

Bump from the depths. I gave this a try, with mixed results. Both are 360 panos shot at 18mm, I forget the exact exposure settings but had it on manual and wb on manual as well, but still am getting some lines at the stitch boundaries. Any suggestions? Photo stitching was with Canon photo stitch and polar coordinates transform in GIMP 2.8.

**Chainsaw_Willie** · 03-01-2013, 12:48 AM

geomorph - try different stitching software. Hugin is the best I've found and it's free. Microsoft ICE also works really well. Looks to me like your stitching software is shitty at blending the exposure & WB values which Hugin & ICE are very good at.

I love Hugin but it stopped working on my computer. Gives a weird error during the alignment process and won't go any further. The limited tech support for it didn't turn up any solutions so I moved to ICE which works good but isn't as powerful and feature-rich.