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Due to the increasing distribution of cell phones most people don’t need telephone booths any more. Being a common mean of communication just 30 years ago, nowadays the telephone booths are mostly waiting to be used…
In Germany the old yellow telephone booths are continuously being removed due to a newer design.
These two facts made me think of the term forgotten place because I wasn’t able to remember when I last used one of these yellow booths.
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This panorama has been stitched from 15 individual fish eye images. I took them handheld. I took 6 sets of three bracketed images, one in each cardinal direction, and a zenith and nadir shot. I combined the panorama using PTGui and exposure fusion.
This panorama has been stitched from five landscape oriented images and has a maximum resolution of 10230×2490 pixels. I made it on the terrace of the Neureuth cabin. The view is towards the Tegernsee.
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This panorama was stitched from five images in portrait orientation. The resulting image is 8000 x 3000 pixel.
The Bauma in Munich is the largest fair in the world with an area of 555.000 m². It takes place every third year and has a large open air ground. The official tower of the Munich fair can be seen in the panorama on the left with the blue sign near the top. It is 86m high. Many of the cranes are even taller! The original panorama was stitched from 15×3 portrait images that gives a final resolution of 14768×6000 pixels. The Konica Minolta Dynax 7D has a resolution of only 6 Megapixel.
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This panorama is my entry for the WWP event “Transportation”.
As the shooting location is the middle of a heavy used bridge I couldn’t use a tripod. Instead I used a virtual tripod, which is also called a Philopod. I just started shooting, and when the passenger volume over the bridge grew too large I could easily step aside.
With a fisheye attached to my camera, four pictures (each with the camera pointing to a different cardinal direction) cover the full sphere. But as I wanted to show some passengers I took 22 shots and afterwards I selected the four shots, with the most passengers captured.
As the roof of the station contains lots of details I took two additional pictures for the zenith. One of the pictures was used in the final panorama. Due to the use of a Philopod as “tripod” it’s footprint was not visible and therefore the nadir was retouched manually.
Show on mapThis is the second panoramic image which I shot with my first DSLR camera. I took eight images in two rows in landscape orientation. The size of the resulting image is 9080 x 3709 pixel.
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At the time of shooting (August 07, 2004) this was my largest and most complex panorama. For this panorama I used 90 images in three rows in portrait orientation. Despite the 5 megapixel of the camera the final image has 32493 x 6171 pixels (that’s ~200 megapixel). It was really tricky to stitch, as the computer was reaching it’s limits in more than one aspect (main memory and hard disk).
This panorama was stitched from three images in landscape orientation. Each of the original images has 5 megapixel. The resolution of the final image is 5120 pixel by 2880 pixel.
