The Panoramic Photo Thread

[sunvalleylaw]

I was going home night before last, and stopped to get a quick hike up a little trail on the back side of Dollar (the beginner mountain) on the way home. Took these on my iPhone, deciding to make a panoramic photo, as it was so pretty. Share one (or more) from your neighborhood!

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/DollarEvePan.jpg

[Ch0jin]

Here you go SVL. I don't actually live in the USA of course, but i was on a bit of a panorama bender when I was there.

Las Vegas (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ch0jin/4786328270/in/set-72157624476257464/lightbox/)

Here are some more that didn't end up on my Flickr page. Apologies for not just embedding the images here, I thought I could do that with box.net, but I guess I can't

Union Square SF (http://www.box.net/shared/olqzz0uuby)

Grand Canyon (http://www.box.net/shared/kkhed4a3ge)

SF Bay from Alcatraz (http://www.box.net/shared/8mqz011n2l)

and lastly A 360 degree panorama of Las Vegas (http://www.box.net/shared/3dg14tfcze)

Some of those are from my dslr, some from a little Sony and I think the 360 degree one might have been my iphone..

All of them were stitched in PS CS4

[otaypanky]

What's the altitude Steve?

Darren, I couldn't get SF and LV 360 to open ~~~

[Ch0jin]

H'mm thats strange, they open when I try them. Lets see if anyone else wanders in for a peek and see how they go.

[sunvalleylaw]

What's the altitude Steve?

Darren, I couldn't get SF and LV 360 to open ~~~

You are looking at Bald Mountain (Baldy) which is 9100 feet at the top. Ketchum, at its feet, sits at a bit over 6000. That is where my office is. In fact, my office is just this hike. The valley to the left heads south to Hailey, where I live, which sits at about 5500.

[Tig]

H'mm thats strange, they open when I try them. Lets see if anyone else wanders in for a peek and see how they go.

I could get to the Flickr hosted shots (very nice work, BTW!), but am blocked at work to the Box hosted ones, so I'm no help. :wave:

[Eric]

H'mm thats strange, they open when I try them. Lets see if anyone else wanders in for a peek and see how they go.
They all worked for me. Very nice shots!

[deeaa]

I was going home night before last, and stopped to get a quick hike up a little trail on the back side of Dollar (the beginner mountain) on the way home. Took these on my iPhone, deciding to make a panoramic photo, as it was so pretty. Share one (or more) from your neighborhood!

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/DollarEvePan.jpg

Looks like Mt.Doom before Sauron took over :-)

[deeaa]

Here's our old family cottage (now mostly my sister's cottage):

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_6nk96PAbWiI/TM12Ug9LS_I/AAAAAAAADb4/G4dcH0Kq16Q/s1280/m%C3%B6kkiranta1.jpg

Unless I'm badly mistaken, the pic is taken sometime near midsummer, near midnight a few summers back. It's a 180 so the shore is actually rather straight, the panorama makes it look curved.

[sunvalleylaw]

Yeah, mine is a 180 or more, so the perspective is off. Let's say the main view is Baldy, then that trail would be a bit back over my right shoulder.

[Spudman]

Those of you that want to make a panorama and have at least 2 overlapping photos can use AUTOSTITCH (http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html). It's a free program and works really well. It does everything automatically for you.

[Ch0jin]

Thanks for the nice comments :)

In case anyone is interested, I think the best results I've received were through the use over a very wide lens and only stitching a few together like my Flickr Vegas strip shot. The 10mm lens gives an enormous field of view compressed into a 4:3 frame so you can use less frames to stitch a 180 degrees or more FOV together and not lose as much height.

Here are 2 examples of unfinished work showing what I mean.

Jordan (http://members.iinet.net.au/~ch0jin/stuff/wide%20test.jpg)

That's Wadi Rum visitor Centre in Jordan. As you can sort of see from the blend lines in the sky that's four frames @ 10mm stitched to give well over 180 degrees but I lose quite a lot of height still.

This is Cairo (again another unfinished project, so apologies for the crap shot) in three frames. Slightly less FOV but more height.

CAIRO (http://members.iinet.net.au/~ch0jin/stuff/Cairo%20Panorama.jpg)

For my current dslr rig, I think between 3 and 4 frames makes an acceptable aspect ratio.

But if it's extreme you like then I've copied that 360 degree view of Vegas shot on a little sony DSCT300 in 1920x1080 mode to my site to avoid box.net issues. That's 21 frames stitched your looking at ;)

Vegas 360 (http://members.iinet.net.au/~ch0jin/stuff/360%20Vegas.jpg)

[sunvalleylaw]

Those of you that want to make a panorama and have at least 2 overlapping photos can use AUTOSTITCH (http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html). It's a free program and works really well. It does everything automatically for you.

Yeah, I used Hugin, a free one for the Mac. Funny, they have an Autostitch app for iPhones, but not a computer version for the Mac. The free Hugin program I downloaded works great though.

[deeaa]

I think autostitch was what I used. I think it came with one of the Canon cameras.

[NWBasser]

Hey Steve, that looks like a fairly fresh fault at the base of the Mt. in the middle. Do you get much seismic activity?

[Spudman]

Hey Steve, that looks like a fairly fresh fault at the base of the Mt. in the middle. Do you get much seismic activity?


That's just the valley floor. Not much seismic stuff happens there. More of it happens east of Sun Valley.

[sunvalleylaw]

You are probably seeing where the valley floor and river bench drops into the actual current river drainage. There is a bench that runs the valley, that drops around 50 feet or so to a lower basin that has eroded over time from the Bigwood River. We have had quakes over here, but mostly in relation to stuff that has happened east as Spud says. There is a very visible fault along the Lost River range which includes Borah, the highest peak in Idaho, which is quite visible. http://www.summitpost.org/borah-peak-as-seen-from-us/683/c-150190

[NWBasser]

Those linear-trending faceted ridge faces are suggestive of active faulting. I wouldn't be surprised if there were several north to south trending synthetic fault systems in that area.

Yeah, I knew about Mt. Borah. I'd like to see that fault scarp myself someday.

The front of the Wasatch around Salt Lake City has very dramatic fault scarp at the base. That thing looks like it could pop any day!

[Spudman]

The front of the Wasatch around Salt Lake City has very dramatic fault scarp at the base. That thing looks like it could pop any day!

According to my Geology professor that whole line up into southern Idaho is past due to go. With all the geologic activity around the world lately I wouldn't be surprised if it happened soon. I wouldn't be thrilled about it, but I wouldn't be surprised.

[sunvalleylaw]

Those linear-trending faceted ridge faces are suggestive of active faulting. I wouldn't be surprised if there were several north to south trending synthetic fault systems in that area.

Yeah, I knew about Mt. Borah. I'd like to see that fault scarp myself someday.

The front of the Wasatch around Salt Lake City has very dramatic fault scarp at the base. That thing looks like it could pop any day!


What's a "linear-trending faceted ridge face"? Where are you looking in the photo? I am curious now. It has been a long time since Geology 101 at UW. That was not long after Mt. St. Helens, and the focus was obviously on that, and plate tectonics and the Cascades. I have never taken time to learn much about intermountain geology, except that there is some relation to the same stuff, but deeper.

[NWBasser]

Well, if you take a close look at the mt. in the middle with the ski slopes you'll see that there are several ridges extending downward toward you that suddenly terminate in a triangular shape rather than continuing at a steady slope to the valley floor. Each of these triangular (faceted) ridges appears cutoff along a straightish line (fault?) at their base. These fault-block mountains are fairly common around the intermountain west as seen at Borah Mt., Tetons, Wasatch, etc.

You can get somewhat similar geomorphology from glaciers (Yosemite Valley), but I don't really see other clues pointing to a glacial origin.

[NWBasser]

Here's a bit of related news for the seismically active Idaho.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40248881/?gt1=43001

[Commodore 64]

Ch0jiin's Grand Canyon shot is now my desktop background. Thanks!

[sunvalleylaw]

Here's a bit of related news for the seismically active Idaho.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40248881/?gt1=43001

We are up at or near Stanley all the time in the summer. The last big quake that caused damage around here was miles away, and exposed that fault line linked above The Borah Peak earthquake of 1983. (I was in Seattle then).

http://www.mtexpress.com/2003/03-10-22/03-10-22borah.htm

[Ch0jin]

Ch0jiin's Grand Canyon shot is now my desktop background. Thanks!

Wow thanks!!!