The worlds largest spherical panos 5,3 and 6,2 Gigapixel

[julian kalmar]

The first one shows the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

http://photoartkalmar.com/Photoart Kalmar high res/Gigapixel/KHM.Wien.html

The second shows St. Peter´s in Vienna

http://photoartkalmar.com/Photoart Kalmar high res/Gigapixel/Peterskirche VR/Peterskirche.html

The more than 300 infopoints are not implemented yet, but in some month the infopoints will provide plenty of information about the entire church.
The plan of the church´s rektor is to install a wlan, so that all the tourists will be able to get all the information they are intrested in.

Julian

 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

The first one shows the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

http://photoartkalmar.com/Photoart Kalmar high res/Gigapixel/KHM.Wien.html

The second shows St. Peter´s in Vienna

http://photoartkalmar.com/Photoart Kalmar high res/Gigapixel/Peterskirche VR/Peterskirche.html

Hi Julian,

Well done. Could you tell something about the equipment used, e.g. did you use a manual or motor guided method of shooting.

Cheers,
Bart

 

[julian kalmar]

Hi Julian,

Well done. Could you tell something about the equipment used, e.g. did you use a manual or motor guided method of shooting.

Cheers,
Bart

A manual head.
Using a motorized head in such panos would need too much time.
I know, that this may sound a bit funny, but it´s true.

For the museum I had to take more than 1200 images but for the entire pano I took only about 311 images for the stitching process.
All other images I had to take because of focus and exposure blending.
Of course a 100mm lens do not provide enough DOF, no matter which apperture you are using.
There are motorized head which allow a "step by step" shooting, but this is much slower than doing everything with your hands.
( Only for the floor I had to take between 2 and 5 images to get one sharp image- the farther away from the tripod, the more images)

In the pano of the church, the light condition has been a huge challange.
More than 1000 images for the entire pano and 344 for the stitching.
Only about 100 images for focusblending and the rest for exposureblending.
here you can see two pictures made from other photographers, so that you can imagine how difficult the light situation in this church is
http://www.360cities.net/image/peterskirche-petersplatz-wien-austria ( evening) and
http://www.manfredbauer.de/wp-content/gallery/0905_vienna/IMG_5341.jpg (at daytime)

All images are manually blended ( I do not like the HDR effect in such images)

Julian