[john.sw]

World Heritage Tour is making a documentary image bank with panoramic pictures and interactive virtual reality movies for all sites registered as World Heritage by the UNESCO.

The panoramas are fantastic!

http://www.world-her...sia/in/map.html

[iwanttogoback]

brilliant. absolutely brilliant.

thanks john.

btw - how come you can manage to get a photo or video of the taj without people, but there's always a green garden hose?

[john.sw]

The green garden hose is ok, but where is the ubiquitous red plastic chair?  

[Yashodhara]

Now, how absolutely fantastic is that? Thanks a lot, John.

[YETI]

Wonderful site, John.

There's some great Himalayan ones - have a look at this one of Kala Patthar in Nepal.

[ddutta]

Absolutely great!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Thanx John.

[Judi]

How to fritter away a couple of hours without really trying ..........  

Thanks for this John, they really are brilliant!

[dzibead]

This is seriously addictive.  I love the fact that you can also pan up and down.

[YETI]

The Hampi ones are great, too.

[captmahajan]

damn, i really must get a faster connection.

thanks, john. wonderful stuff

[Fast Eddie]

Ace! I'm thinking of getting the Pentax Optio WP because its just a point and click and it can do panoramas (have a look on this site for some examples) http://www.theworldi...t.com/panoramas They look really good. Anyone got one?

[Cameleer]

Those panos are very good, but as for myself I like showing people, animals and everyday life along the busy streets. Here’s a page showing Bikaner that’s not finished yet but all of the QuickTime panos are working.
Some of these panos were taken from on top of a 17 foot pole to really give you a good overview! Others are more up close and personal to really give you a feel of being there.  
http://www.camelphotos.com/India.html

btw I'm getting a new setup so on my next trip to India I can take much better panos.
Hope you like them.

Sorry, I forgot that link won’t work because this forum changes the lower case I in India to upper case.
Is there a way to stop this from happening?  yes, supermod to the rescue!   all I did was edit it and change the I back to lower case.

Edited by iwanttogoback, 13 June 2007 - 07:39 PM.

[dzibead]

The link still didn't work when I clicked it, so I just typed it directly into the URL box and it worked.

Wow!  Those photos are fantastic!  Talk about about having a sense of really being there!  

I did have to laugh at myself, though, because when I panned down in the "Camel Closeup" shot, I said to myself "what's that guy doing? what's he looking up at?  what's that "CP" thing he's holding?"    Oh, duh ... that's YOU!  

[Cameleer]

I still need to add audio to the 360 panos and finish up the rest of the page links, but this all takes a lot of time and I just do it as a hobby. When I get the video clips and slideshows done you will be able to enjoy the feeling of being there even more.  
Most times I will remove myself from the shot, it gives it more of a feeling of you’re the one who’s there.

I also have one more page that I'm working on that shows the Pushkar Camel Fair: http://www.camelphot...om/pushkar.html
As you will see, I'm changing a copy of the Bikaner page over to the Pushkar page one 360 pano at a time.

[cyberhippie]

Amazing stuff, that's a nice bit of work cameleer with the Quicktime panos very slick indeed!

[YETI]

Great stuff, cameleer!

I wish I knew how to add 360-degree panoramas to my blog.

Do you need a special camera or is it a software thing?

[crvlvr]

What does it take to make it to the UNESCO heritage list?  For example Dalhousie Square in Kolkata (not vey impressive) made it but Halibed/Belur is not on the list?!

[Cameleer]

Dr Funkenstein, on Jun 15 2007, 09:01 AM, said:

Great stuff, cameleer!

I wish I knew how to add 360-degree panoramas to my blog.

Do you need a special camera or is it a software thing?

The easiest way to do these panos is with a DSLR camera and a Sigma 8mm F3.5 fisheye lens. It’s best to use a pano head which you can make or buy for under $200. Take 4 photos around and stitch them using a program like Ptgui, then use another program like Pano2qtvr to turn it into QuickTime for viewing as a 360VR pano.
When I started out I was using a Canon 20D with a 10-24mm lens and had to shoot 17 photos to make a 360VR pano. Then I got the Sigma 8mm F3.5 lens and I could do it with 4 photos. I just recently got the Canon 5D and Nikon (Nikkor) 10.5mm F2.8 lens and can now do high quality ones with only 3 shots.
  
Zoomify is something else that I want to start using and it now comes with Photoshop CS3.  
Here’s an example of what it does.  
This image is a composite of 2,045 individual photographs with a size of 13-gigapixeles:
http://www.harlem-13-gigapixels.com/

[Luckywoman]

Wow, really amazing those panoramas, both on the Unesco site as on yours Cameleer!