Category: Panorama

Looking Back, Looking Ahead — and Looking for Inspiration

Looking Back, Looking Ahead — and Looking for Inspiration

(UPDATED 19th Jan, 2010; see end) It is this time of the year. POY (Pressi­mages of the year / Vuoden Lehti­kuvat) had a deadline last Friday. I looked at my images, selected some and submitted them. The best image of the year — in MHO — was not of sports: not Kira Korpi, not Tero Pitkämäki, not Saku … 

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Levi Alpine WC — Living Multimedia

Levi Alpine WC — Living Multimedia

(UPDATED) Almost two in the morning… Just uploaded the first version of the multi­media project I am doing here in the Levi Slalom World Cup. Presently it has three panoramas 360°x180° and each one has a dedicated narration by Tanja Poutiainen describing different sections of the course. It is displayed on MTV3 website and presently the captions are … 

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Sölden — lessons learned

Sölden — lessons learned

Sunny days in Sölden are history and it is back to business as usual. Flying home tomorrow. Skied in good company as you can see in the image on the right. ;-) As I said somewhere (FB): “The fact that I was the last one over the finishing line beats me…” Image Managed to get one or two decent images … 

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Multimedia: Working on a New Interface

Multimedia: Working on a New Interface

Been busy lately working with a new interface format. Meaning: lots of sleepless nights. I’ve been trying to minimize the role of HTML-code and move the emphasis — as much as possible — to flash. And as anyone familiar with flash knows, it is a rather complicated program. Nothing new in this per se, but with a couple of … 

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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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