Panorama

Panoramic Photography

Who invented panoramas? 
  One of the first recorded panoramic photographs was by Joseph Puchberger, in Austria 1843. This was a hand-cracked, 150° field of view, 8-inch focal length camera that exposed a relativity large Daguerreotype which was 610 mm long. Here is the image:

This technology was further developed by Kodak, which revealed the worlds first panoramic camera in 1899, Model No. 4. 

What are they used for? 
  They are lots of uses for panoramic photographs, and now with the technological convergence of panorama apps on mobile phones people can now take panorama images on there phones whenever and wherever they want to. 
  Also, people who go travelling also like to create panoramic images in order to show the people at home. Examples of this can be found on gigapixel.com, where images can be found from all over the world. These panorama's are enabled to let the audience zoom in and move around the image to explore the space is which the image has been taken. 
  Panorama's are most commonly used for to capture scenes of landscapes of natural beauty or even city skylines. These are the most common because of the beauty that they can capture though the use of the panorama. 

How are they created and made? What is the technique behind panoramas? 
  One of the best ways to create a panoramic image would be to use Photoshop and Photomerge. This is done by taking your images in line with one other, but as you move to the next image you make sure you overlap the two to creating 1/3 of the image the same in each next sequence to the images. Once your images are taken, you then 'stitch' your image together threw the use of Photoshop and Photomerge. Each image is opened up in Photomerge in the sequence of which the panorama will unfold, where it is then sent to Photoshop in order to blend the images together. If the image becomes uneven you should first flatten your image and then do an Arbitrary rotation until the picture looks level. Once this is done, you can then edit your photo to how you wish. This is known as segmented panorama. 

  There are also lots of other ways of creating panoramic photographers, here are a few examples: 

• Catadioptric cameras
• 3D panorama

Catadioptric cameras

  Catadioprtic camera consist of lens and curved mirrors that reflect a 360 degree field of view into the lens' optics. These specific lens and curved mirrors are arranged in order to create a single viewpoint, which means the panorama is effectively viewed from a single point of space. Meaning you can simply warp the acquired image into cylindrical or spherical panorama.   

  

3D panorama

  Some camera's enabled a 3D format when capturing a panorama image, this technology enables the photographer to take shots from different angles and combine them creating a multidimensional effect. Cameras such as Samsung NX1000 and Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 off the 3D panorama mode. 

Use of panoramas as art from and science

Art form

Panorama is used greatly in art form, as to create the panorama's which can be moved and zoomed in on, as I spoke about earlier in this blog. Examples can be found at http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/. These images are taken around the world everyday and are equally interesting to the audience.

Science 

This image from the Apollo 11 shows a man on the moon, this is done extremely well to this experience to others who have not had this scientific experience themselves, which is most people. To see this imagery, we realise just how vastly time and science has moved on as to be able to create such images to see an amazing experience. 
  Also, such panoramic photographs are also use in science as to capture images of nature and such things in order to examine and express. Here are some examples: 

From these panorama's here you can see the different landscapes of which have been captured, these different landscapes are all part of science and evolution over the years which is what makes this type of panoramic photography so interesting and special. 

My panorama images