Archive for January, 2009

Panoramic photos of Abydos by Stefan Geens

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Here is one of many of Stefan Geens’ spectacular panoramic photos from his recent trip to Egypt. You can read more about it on his blog, Ogle Earth.
Be sure to click the “fullscreen” button in the top left of the image!

view Panoramic photography of Inner Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Seti I, Abydos
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Crazy Football

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

One of my favorite old panoramic images, shot in 2005. A bunch of lunatics playing football in the deep winter snowing madness, in the mud, in Letna Park, Prague:

view Crazy Football in Prague

People watching Machines, watching Machines, watching People

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Frank Taylor of the always-informative Google Earth Blog has blogged about this great image of a U2 Spyplane, captured in-flight on Google Earth!

Who is watching who, now? :-)
Click the images to open this location in Google Earth.

How to: photograph and stitch very very very very long scenes

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

While the state of the art of Panoramic Photography has progressed in incredible ways over the last few years, there is still one type of photography stitching that is still a kind of black art: multi-viewpoint “planar” panoramas. Think of an image of all the facades on a street – while it seems simple to [...]

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