Panorama Photography
These panoramas are interactive, use the keys above to navigate – or use your mouse, just don’t get dizzy. The panorama photography involved in this process is complex. I use a 20mm fixed lens to capture the 360° X 180° perspective of each scene, collecting 32 views. In addition, I use HDR photography, bracketing each view 5-7 times in one stop increments. That works out to 160-224 images per panorama. The programs used to process and prepare the images are Photomatix and Photoshop for HRD processing, PTGui for stitching, Pano2VR for creating the sphere, and a WordPress plugin, PanoPress for helping make this relatively easy to display. It takes just over an hour to setup and capture the images for a panorama, then, depending on the scene, another three to five hours of computer time to put it all together.
This panorama was captured under the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, CA. My father worked on this bridge as a young man in his twenties, flagging the cable operator to let out more cable or take up the slack.