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Panorama – City of Nottingham [180°]
Here’s an interactive panoramic image of the city of Nottingham viewed from the top of Nottingham castle on a nice sunny day. The panorama is made up of 9 photos spanning 180° of surrounding views in Nottingham.
The camera used in this image was a Canon EOS 20D dSLR. Since I did not have a tripod around on the day, I used the horizon as a reference point to keep all the photos roughly at an even level throughout.
In the photomerge tool of Photoshop, I’ve chosen the cylindrical option as it created the best stitching result. I was really surprised with the outcome of the panoramic image as the merging on the photos were faultless and no adjustments were needed.
What I like about this panorama is the different type of buildings it has on either sides, the left side having older factory buildings and on the right side there’s newer commercial buildings. I particularly like the contrast of the orange tone on the left and the grey tone on the right.
The large white bulding at the centre of the image and the forest on the horizon produces a central focal point and creates some nice interest to the piece.
Panorama – Computer Room 2 [360°]
Here is the second interactive panoramic image showing the other computer room situated in the Bonington building. The same method were used to create both panoramic pieces.
The trickiest part in the making of these panoramas was joining the ends together. The lighting on either ends were different and a seam can be seen, they also overlapped each other and so the duplicate area had to be cropped.
To create a seamless 360° panorama I’ve copied one of the ends and pasted it on the other side, I’ve then added a layer mask and applied a horizontal black and white gradient on the mask to gradually fade the top layer with the background.
Panorama – Computer Room 1 [360°]
Here is the first in a series of interactive panoramic images that I have recently done. This particular panorama shows one of the computer room situated in the Bonington building of Nottingham Trent university.
The original photos were taken a while back during my first year at university. I used an old Sony 3 megapixels cybershot camera and a tripod.
On the day of shooting, I placed the camera at the centre of the room and took a set of 26 photos with 10-15° degrees rotation intervals, making sure the photos were overlapping each other.
My first attempt at stitching the photos together using Photoshop did not produce a good result and the photos were left unused for a few years. It is only recent that I’ve made an another attempt using a newer version of Photoshop with its Automated photomerge and this achieved a much better result with only a few correction needed to be made.
In some parts of the panoramic image where 2 photos are merged together there were some alignment that were off, to correct the problem I’ve copied and pasted the certain areas and nudged them back to the right place and erased the surrounding edges.
After using Photoshop I’ve imported the final image to Pano2vr which outputs the image into an interactive flash format with its own control parameters.
Photography – Chinese New Year 2009
I haven’t posted much for awhile, currently working on 3D at the moment. Anyway, Here are some photos taken from Liverpool on 25-01-09. Happy new year!
