Category: Equirectangular Image

360° Aerial Photography

360° Aerial Photography

We are doing an interesting project in Lahti (LAMK a.k.a Lahti University of Applied Sciences), where we were assigned to shoot some video footage and stills images on our local outdoor possi­bi­lities. The client did not ask for it, but I volun­teered to shoot some 360° stills as well — I figured that since we already were on … 

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You cannot Define the Truth Instrumentally

You cannot Define the Truth Instrumentally

About two weeks ago I was surfing the net and I stumbled on this image on a Helsinki Times page. “Nice HDR-work” was my initial reaction (took me c. two seconds) and then, WTF? Byline with photo­grapher and STT/Lehtikuva/Reuters… What was this? I got interested, googled this particular photo­grapher just to see if this was his style in general. … 

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Vancouver Olympics, day 19: Bronze medals and multimedia hiccups

Vancouver Olympics, day 19: Bronze medals and multimedia hiccups

I’m ready to go home — I guess we all are. Three more days. I’m wet, I’m tired… Presently shooting women’s slalom in real low visibility, due to heavy snowfall. Even if you expose correctly, set the white­point and then push the black all the way to the 100 in ARC, you still use about one third of the … 

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Vancouver Olympics, day 11: Panoramic Images

Vancouver Olympics, day 11: Panoramic Images

For the first week it was pissing rain and you could not shoot anything with an extreme wideangle, as you would have only gotten fog and water on the lens. But it has gotten better. I have had couple of friends already asking for these so here we go. I had a free morning and I decided to shoot … 

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The World is Shrinking…

The World is Shrinking…

My two last posts have had pretty serious content, so maybe I’m allowed something which is just trivial fun… These are actually called “Stereoscopic 300 degree projec­tions”, a sort of sub-category of panoramic photo­graphy. Took me a while to figure out how these are done — I mean directly out of raw images it was straight forward, but out … 

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