Category: QTVR

Shooting 360°x180° Images — from a Helicopter

Shooting 360°x180° Images — from a Helicopter

This is a small demo. Please note: this works (properly) only with HTML5 compliant browser — such as Safari on a Mac. It works on iPad2 (i.e. Mobile Safari) but it does NOT work with iPad 1st gen. nor iPhone (except — I was told — it does work with iPhone 4S) — due to non-optimized media and subsequently high processing load. Thats’ … 

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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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What have I done lately…

What have I done lately…

Well, not very much… I mentioned the Berlin blog earlier; the slideshow I did with four simul­taneus images over there did generate some discussion… What I would have liked to do, was having four simul­taneus slideshows, with one ambient audio looping. Then each of these four slideshows would have acted as a hotspot linking to a “proper” slideshow of that particular athlete. … 

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