GigaPans

Shanghai, one of the most populous cities in the world, has never been pictured in such enormous detail. Let the world experience this fast growing city and understand China is always my dream. Through my telephoto lens, I wish you, the viewer, can blend into the daily life in Shanghai and enjoy your virtual visit.

Before being introduced to Gigapan, I used manual panorama head (Manfrotto 303SPH) and fisheye lens to take spherical panorama and build virtual tours for my clients. In late 20...

raw stitch

** riohk website **
http://rio.hk

see also Corcovado 67 processed
http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/66020/

This image was taken on Canon 7D with 400mm f5.6 and 2X tele-converter. Another image taken on the same day can be found at

http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/59054/

I didn't use tele-converter in the smaller version.

This is a large image, despite its size, there is a major problem due to inconsistent sun light. Since I shot the image in the row first order, the lighting change caused the obvious color strips in the image

Since you are here, you may also want to check out my i...

Shanghai Skyline anniversary stitch

This set of images were taken at Park Avenue in the Arches National Park. FOV (field of view) is about 150 degree horizontal and 50 degree vertical. I used a 400mm prime lens on a Canon 7D.

The Image was stitched by Autopano Giga on a dual Xeon quad-core system (8 cores) with 32G of memory and 6T of hard drive space. Stitching was done in 10 days and uploaded to gigapan in about 50 hours.

I wrote an automatic image trimmer that automatically trim the stitched image.

The image set con...

vignetting correction - level equalization

** riohk website **
http://rio.hk/

vignetting correction

** riohk website **
http://rio.hk/