My 360 degree hiking and scenic photographs webpage
Isolation Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park (228KB)
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Mount Alice, Rocky Mountain National Park (219 KB)
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Chiefs Head Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park (166 KB)
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Paris, France from the Eiffel Tower (266 KB)
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Pagoda Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park (223 KB)
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Storm Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park (210 KB)
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North Arapaho Peak, Indian Peaks Wilderness (187 KB)
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Navajo Peak, Indian Peaks Wilderness (195 KB)
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Apache Peak, Indian Peaks Wilderness (203 KB)
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Longs Peak from Mount Lady Washington, Rocky Mountain National Park (113 KB)
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Long's Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park (215 KB)
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Mt. Meeker, Rocky Mountain National Park (228 KB)
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Thatchtop, Glacier Gorge - Rocky Mountain National Park (KB)
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Stonehenge, England (151 KB)
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Mt. Audubon, Indian Peaks Wilderness (167 KB)
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Ypsilon Mountain, Rocky Mountain National Park (208 KB)
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Boulder, Colorado from South Boulder Road in Louisville (KB)
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Boulder, Colorado from South Boulder Road Louisville (KB)
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How the photos were created
These photos were created with my regular 35mm Nikon SLR camera and I used a 50mm lens to shoot them. The photos were created by me first selecting an initial point on the terrain to begin taking the pictures. I then turned the camera vertically and aligned the view so that I would get the maximum amount of terrain in the photographs. That meant that the camera was actually angled slightly down from the horizon.
I then took a picture of the terrain. After taking the picture, I would find and remember some terrain feature on the right side of the picture such as a snowfield edge or interesting rock. Then I moved the camera horizontally until I had moved the noted terrain feature to the left side of the frame. I then took another picture. I did make sure that there was some overlap between the pervious frame and the current frame. Again I noted some feature on the right side of the frame and moved the camera to its new position. I continued this process picture taking and horizontal movement until I had moved all the way around in a complete circle. This process usually would require 16 frames of film to complete.
After the film is processed, I scanned each frame of film into the computer using my film scanner. Then I opened up each individual image into Photoshop and I created a very large blank image that will contain the eventual 360 degree composite image. At this point it is basically just a matter to copying each of the individual terrain images into the large composite image and aligning the new image to the ever growing composite image.
More coming...
Last Updated: October 31, 2003
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