During the recent cold snap, I produced a series of panoramas of the local countryside. Living on a single track dead end road, it’s never cleared nor gritted and so it doesn’t take much for us to get snowed in. As such, my walks were limited to the neighboring Hertfordshire villages of Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hunsdon and Widford, where I live.
In near white-out conditions and with the snow still falling, the local landscape was totally transformed and provided the opportunity to create sublime panoramas of the ‘near monochrome’ scenery.
Editing the final selection down to three panoramas, and experimenting with a number of different panoramic projections, I found each of the compositions naturally lent themselves to being displayed in their own particular way.
Mercator Panorama for print: Click the panorama to view a larger version
Globe Panorama for print: Click the panorama to view a larger version
Interactive 360 Panorama near Widford: Click the panorma to view
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Full Screen Panoramas, Hertfordshire, Snow
St. Walburga Church, Bruge, Belgium
I recently found time to finish a high resolution panorama of the baroque church St. Walburga, photographed whilst in Bruges late last year. I had been be loaned a pre-production Canon 5D MK2 from Canon UK, and whilst everyone was talking about the HD video funtion of the new 5D MK2, I was interested to explore the possibilities of producing super detailed 360º panoramas at ever higher resolutions.
After experimenting with different stitching work-flows, HDR and post production work in Photoshop the resulting detail in the panorama is superb, and at 24 000 pixels wide, the panorama is sixteen times the size of our standard full screen panoramas (as used on the Pan 3Sixty website) and four times the size of our previous largest offering.
Could we go larger still? With the new hi-res work-flow in place, the 24 000 pixel wide panoramas will be our largest ’standard’ high resolution offering, but we can produce even larger panoramas to order, tailored specifically to the clients requirements. The new high resolution panoramas provide ever greater possibilities for huge panoramic prints or multi-resolution interactive panoramas that enable the user to zoom in on minute details within the scene.
You can see an interactive version of the St. Walburga church panorama under March 2009 entry in the Panorama of the Month section of the Pan 3Sixty website. Please note that this version has been re-sized down to our normal proportions for a full screen panorama.
For more details call us on 0845 644 3605 or get a cost for your virtual tour through our Quotations Page.
Tags: 360 Panoramas, 5d mk2, Baroque, Belgium, Bruge, church, High Resolution Panoramas
