Pevensy Castle Panorama

I decided to take my first panoramic image at Pevensy Castle because I thought it would be interesting all the way around, as there is a Roman wall circling the site.

Here are my images laid out in order:

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The spot I chose had a view of the castle and a lot of trees. Unfortunately you can't see much of the wall I wanted to include but I still think that the view is attractive all the way round.

I've added in some fake sky using the render - clouds option on photoshop because the blue sky above the castle turns into boring white as the panorama goes round. The pigeons happened to fly up just as I was taking the pictures, which was nice of them. I left them in by masking out part of the overlying layer.

Research into 360 Panoramas

After searching google for a bit I found 360vr.com which has some amazing examples of some very complex virtual reality panoramas such as this one from New Year's Eve in Times Square:

This panorama is especially immersive because it includes some audio of the New Year countdown.

Jook is an example of a photographer that takes these images. Here is his page on the 360vr website, where it is explained that he uses a fish eye lens.

These professional panoramas are taken using fish eye lenses, because the scope of the images they capture allow for less photographs to be taken to get the full 360 degrees, and therefore allowing more realistic panoramas, with less stitching and a more accurate recording of a place or event, especially if there is a lot of movement in the scene, such as the one above.

I also found this blog, Panoramablog.com which has a lot of images with lots of people and action in.

This panorama, again in New York, shows a mass pillow-fight from right in the thick of the action. All the way round there are people moving and feathers flying, but I can't find any joins between photos, which is impressive.

Here is a photo of the photographer and his camera in the crowd.

I like this panorama (the first on the page) , from the same blog, because, for the viewer, as you look around there are different things happening and you feel as though you are actually in the water with everyone else.

http://360vr.com/TS-NYE2009/Nivea-stage/krp/ Times square

http://www.panoramablog.com/index.php?entry=entry090408-143048 Pillow fight

http://360vr.com/jook/ Jook