{"id":12237,"date":"2007-02-17T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/02\/panopalooza-from-barcelona-to-the-moon.html"},"modified":"2007-02-17T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T11:24:07","slug":"panopalooza_from_barcelona_to_the_moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/17\/panopalooza_from_barcelona_to_the_moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Panopalooza: From Barcelona to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rough&#8211;<em>rough!<\/em>&#8211;when a humble photog like me finds himself pursued from city to city by someone much more capable behind the lens.&#160; But that&#8217;s the situation in which I found myself last week, when <a href=\"http:\/\/dzone.turnpages.nl\/\">Dzone Magazine<\/a> editor Hans Frederiks* (brother of Adobe&#8217;s own Ton Frederiks) joined us in Amsterdam, then in Barcelona.&#160; I found time to squeeze in a few panoramic shots, but every time I&#8217;d turn around, Hans was shooting &amp; had already uploaded  images to his blog.&#160; It&#8217;s all good, though, and I wanted to pass along a few of his images (stitched together with Photoshop CS3):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/weblog\/archives\/barcelonavanuitadobe.html\">Barcelona at sunrise<\/a>  from the Adobe office.&#160; By the time I arrived, the light had changed, so I settled for shooting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/barcelona_workshop.html\">interior<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Barcelona shot from a similar vantage point <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/weblog\/archives\/barca2.html\">later in the day.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindalee.nl\/weblog\/archives\/Het_IJ.html\">The Amsterdam harbor<\/a> just outside the building where we held a press briefing.&#160; (Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/amsterdam\/amsterdam_harbor_pano_building.jpg\">my take<\/a>, as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/amsterdam\/amsterdam_venue.jpg\">interior<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since folks seemed to enjoy my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/paris_pano\/index.html\">Paris panorama<\/a>, here are a few more from the journey**:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/montjuic.html\">Barcelona skyline<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montjuic\">Montju\u00efc<\/a>.&#160; I shot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/barcelona_harbor.html\">the harbor<\/a>, including the cable car that took us to Montju\u00efc, from a similar vantage point. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/barcelona_guell_hill.html\">Barcelona skyline<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parc_Guell\">Parc G\u00fcell.<\/a>&#160; (Bummer that  it was so hazy.)&#160; The Adobe office is in the beachfront high-rise that appears just to the right of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sagrada_familia\">Sagrada Familia<\/a> cathedral.&#160; How people concentrate while working there, I have no idea&#8230; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/parc_guell.html\">This version<\/a> shows a couple of the famous Gaud\u00ed-designed ceramic works in the park, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/parc_guell_arcade.html\">this shot<\/a> points the other direction, back into the park.&#160; (Check out the little lizard king below the columns.) <\/li>\n<li>Interior of the city <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/train_station.html\">train station<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/sagrada_column_interior_sm.jpg\">Interior of one of the columns<\/a> of the Sagrada Familia (also in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/sagrada_column.html\">Zoomify flavor<\/a>, though there&#8217;s more noise than detail to explore).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/sagrada_facade.html\">Sagrada facade<\/a>&#8211;not a pano per se, but a shot that was required stiching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/barcelona\/sagrada_pieces.jpg\">these four images<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Back to Amsterdam: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/amsterdam\/amsterdam_canal_1.jpg\">pair<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/amsterdam\/amsterdam_canal_2.jpg\">images<\/a> of the city&#8217;s famous canals.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/tarragona\/tarragona_museum.jpg\">history museum<\/a> at Tarragona&#8211;just down the coast from Barcelona, and home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tarragona\">Romans&#8217; HQ<\/a> in Iberia. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/europa\/tarragona\/tarragona_sunset.jpg\">Tarragona at sunset<\/a>.   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Figuring that if you&#8217;ve read this far, you must like panoramic flavor, so I&#8217;ll pass along a few more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hans Nyberg has scanned &amp; stitched photographs taken on the surface of the moon, assembling them into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramas.dk\/moon\/apollo-17-2.html\">this excellent QuickTime VR panorama<\/a> (complete with sound!).&#160; More details on the project are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramas.dk\/moon\/mission-apollo.html\">here.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/02\/12749.html\">Via<\/a>]  <\/li>\n<li>Photographer Alexandre Duret-Lutz has turned his panos into a series of super cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gadl\/sets\/72157594279945875\/\">Mini-planets<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2006\/12\/12\/eiffel-planet\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Jim Heid from Macworld passed along this lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jimheid\/1076719\/\">panorama he took from the top of L&#8217;Arc d&#8217;Triomphe<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Photographer Scott Howard creates giant images, and through Zoomify you can see that they remain tack-sharp all the way in.&#160; He writes, &quot;For some examples of gigapano&#8217;s done with a standard (manual!) tripod, but with a nice Canon 100-400L lens have a look at these:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docbert.org\/SydneyByNight\">Sydney By Night<\/a> &#8211; 740 Megapixels\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docbert.org\/MP\">Mega Machu Picchu<\/a> &#8211; 1500 Megapixels\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docbert.org\/ChicagoByNight\">Chicago By Night<\/a> &#8211; 1000 Megapixels&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*<em>I also can&#8217;t offer up phrases like &quot;Eindelijk sneeuw! 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