Pan 3Sixty photographer Phil Giles won the February Flair Competition run by Creativematch with a panorama of the woodland near Much Hadham created earlier in the year. See the previous blog entry for more about the panorama, or click here to see a larger version.
Creativematch is setup to “provide everything for the UK creative industry, online.” and Flair is their “monthly competition for illustrators and photographers. It is designed as a showcase of recent work, a chance to show off your talents to the wider creative community and it’s clients. It’s also the chance to put your work before a global audience and have it judged by industry experts.”
Tags: Creativematch, Flair Competition, Much Hadham, Snow
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
The ‘World Wide Panorama’ is a series of panoramic events that began back in 2004. There are four events each year, with each event based on a specific theme, attracting entries from photographers all over the world both professional and enthusiast alike.
The latest World Wide Panorama event went live today, showcasing the ‘Best of 2009′. For this event I entered a panorama from one of my favourite places in one of my favourite towns; Bonifacius Bridge in Bruges, Belgium.
Click here to see the World Wide Panorama Project entry. You can also see both day and night views of the bridge my personal portfolio.
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Belgium, Bruges, Full Screen Panoramas, Personal Work, World Wide Panorama Project
In what has been one of our busiest years since starting Pan 3Sixty in 1999, I’ve at long last found a little free time to work on some personal 360° panoramas. Two of my favourite are of Cat Bells in the Lake District which were photographed during a weekend break back in September. The weather was fantastic, the views stunning and with the walk finishing with an easy stroll through the woods on the shoreline of Derwent Water it comes highly recommended. It’s not hard to see why Cat Bells is such a popular walk.
Making the most of the great weather, the next day we walked up Harrison Stickle in the Langdale Pikes. Whilst the views from Harrison Stickle are more far reaching than from Cat Bells (2,145ft as opposed to 1,480ft) there views from Cat Bells take some beating. Catbells also has the advantage of not making you ache so much the next day!
You can view both panoramas of Cat Bells in the Personal Portfolio on the Pan 3Sixty website. More panoramas from the Lake District will follow as and when time allows.
Tags: 360 Panoramas, Cat Bells, Cumbria, Full Screen Panoramas, HDR, Lake District
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
One of our fullscreen 360º panoramas of Queen Mary 2 entering New York has been used in the USA 360 portfolio on Panoramas.dk, a showcase website for the best in 360º photography from around the world.
The panorama was produced whilst Pan 3Sixty were working on the official Cunard virtual tour of Queen Mary 2. Entering New York after a transatlantic crossing from Southampton, we were lucky enough to be given access to the front of the ship from where we produced a number of 360º panoramas of this majestic Ocean Liner slipping into New York as the early morning sun rose over the skyline.
You can view my personal selection of 360º panoramas of Queen Mary 2 on the Pan 3Sixty website, or view the New York Skyline from Queen Mary in the USA 360 portfolio.
Tags: Cruise Virtual Tours, Cunard, Full Screen Panoramas, New York, Panormas.dk, Queen Mary 2
