It’s been an ambition of mine to create my own immersive VR panoramas ever since I first came across the 360 Cities website. After saving up for a decent camera, lens and the requisite tripod technology, I’m finally up and running. I bulked at the cost of stitiching software though, and while I really liked PTgui and would love a copy of Autodesk Stitcher I can’t afford them. Fortunately, Hugin is free, Open Source and totally brilliant. I also use Cubic Converter to extract cube faces from the equirectangular images in order to clone out the tripod.
There’s so much to learn about this form of photography; it’s not quite as easy as I had imagined. Here’s one of the first images I’ve produced:
The Nave, Wells Cathedral in England
I’m planning to create a series of images specifically for classroom use. These will eventually be available on Juicy Geography. An example is this image of a brown-field site:
Morlands, Glastonbury in England
I notice that if you right click on the image you can choose different projections. This one works quite well as a “little planet”
Brownfield site, Glastonbury as a Little Planet
Please get in touch if you have suggestions for a panorama for the geography classroom. And if you do use one, why not help me to recoup the massive financial investment by donating to the site development of Juicy Geography?
2 Responses to “I’m a 360 Cities photographer!”
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Love these images Noel!
What about some panoramas that leave some surprises? For example I use two photographs of a tourist resort at the moment – one shows an amazing beach view and the other a refuse tip. Would be great to explore such an area through 360
So impressed, Noel!