My brother-in-laws are visiting for a little while, and Aubrey encouraged me to take them through a canyon. (Well, by “encouraged” I think she might have just asked me if I wanted to… which I took as giving me permission to leave without feeling guilty about leaving her home with the kids…)
We were planning to do the Squeeze in the San Rafael Swell, but the weather didn’t cooperate. By the time we reached the base of Moroni Slopes, the storm clouds were already forming and moving around the sky. I captured a 360×180 panorama while we were there.
Moroni Slopes panorama
Here are several options for how to view this panorama:
- Flash-Player based view of High Resolution Moroni Slopes Panorama (Recommended)
- High Resolution QuickTime VR Moroni Slopes
- Flash-based view of Low resolution Moroni Slopes panorama
I took a Goblin Valley panorama that I have also posted.
How the heck did you do that?
Oh, I took that picture with my phone. What? iPhones can’t take 360×180 panoramas??
Here’s a brief description from a forum post I put up describing the process:
“Both of them are around 117 or 120 shots each – 3 exposures each from 39 or 40 different angles. Merged using PtGui to a 32-bit equirectangular image, tone-mapped in a demo of HDR Expose, tweaked slightly in photoshop, split into cube faces using a equirectangular-to-cube-face-splitting app, bottom cube face edited in photoshop to remove the tripod and add the notes, then shuttled back into Photoshop to do some final retouching. Then posted here for your viewing pleasure!”
The real trick is using a panorama head to get your lens to rotate around the least-parallax-point. I used a Panosaurus for this.
Oh, and I was kidding. I didn’t use my phone
Okay, that sounds like way too much work for me. I don’t know what I was expecting. But, sounds like it takes brainpower and time. I don’t have much of the first. Pics are awesome, though!
I don’t admit this to many people, but I’ve had thoughts of switching to an Android phone. Mostly just for the Google Voice integration. I just haven’t seen hardware I like as much as the iPhone.
Yeah, the google voice integration is pretty awesome. The Samsung Vibrant on T-mobile is pretty nice. I love the Nexus One, but they are kind of long-in-the-tooth already and you can’t get them direct from google anymore.
It is a lot of work, not so much a lot of brainpower though – once you get the flow down a lot of it is automated and it’s just kind of waiting around for it to do stuff.