Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Panorama Photography

After a long time....more than a year, got something interesting to write here - "Panorama". Yesterday when browsing through the new applications in iphone, Saw an application named 360 panorama and checked the functionality of the app and found interesting. Immediately bought it ($1.99) and tried few photographs in iphone and wow.. it was amazing.!!! I have seen some pictures which were extremely wide angle and mind blowing, (and also tried few by photo-stitching) but was not aware that the technology used on those photographs is panorama. Out of curiosity googled out and found many interesting factors about this. Here is a short description on Panorama Photography from wiki.

"Panoramic photography
is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio. While there is no formal division between "wide-angle" and "panoramic" photography, "wide angle" normally refers to a type of lens, but using this lens type does not necessarily make an image a panorama. An image made with an ultra wide angle fisheye lens covering the normal film frame of 1:1.33 is not automatically considered to be a panorama. An image showing a field of view approximating, or greater than, that of the human eye – about 160° by 75° – may be termed panoramic. This generally means it has an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as it is high. The resulting images take the form of a wide strip. Some panoramic images have aspect ratios of 4:1 and sometimes 10:1, covering fields of view of up to 360 degrees. Both the aspect ratio and coverage of field are important factors in defining a true panoramic image."

This one is the first trial captured through iphone app of my apartment (Hall). Will post more pictures here in the coming days.