PHOTOHOOPS

6:17PM - Manchester University

Manchester University campus from the roof of the University Dental Hospital, which is on the campus. As you can see, there are a mix of very modern and old stone buildings surrounding on the university campus. Winds picked up as I was finishing the panorama, clearing the sky of all cloud, so I took a couple of specific shots before sitting down and enjoying the stars and a small meteor shower.



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6:08PM - RAF/USAF Burtonwood

RAF/USAF Burtonwood is a derelict military air base in NW England. It was used by both British and American forces in WWII, the Cold War and the first Gulf War. It was the largest base in Europe. Two versions of the same panorama, taken from a hangar roof:


Joined at near end


Joined at far end

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1:12AM - Ski Trooper Ridge In Washington's Cascade Range near Mount Rainier

About a week ago, Gene, and Phil, fellow ski patrollers and I skied out to this ridge to scout a hopefully proposed location for a new temporary Mount Tahoma Trails hut about two miles beyond the Copper Creek Hut. The view included Mount Rainier above the Glacier View Wilderness and Mount Beljica, the Goat Rocks, Sawtooth Ridge, Mount Adams, Griffin Mountain, Mt St Helens, Mount Storm King, Puget Sound, and the Olympic Mountain Range. What a day! What a view!
(the image also has three sets of cougar tracks that course along the ridge).

Mount Tahoma Trails - Ski Trooper Ridge - 360º panorama
©2008 Ed Book

We are calling the ridge Ski Trooper Ridge to honor the Army's 10th Mountain Division who got their start early in the 1940's on Mount Rainier. The location is on privately owned timber company land and so any hut we would erect would have to be stationed in place temporarily being moved after the snow season. We've been thinking of designing some sort of arrangement of ocean shipping containers mounted on trailers. This hut would be crude compared to our (Mount Tahoma Trails Association) other huts which are actually (3) two story cabins and a two story yurt located along our 50+ miles of cross country trails.

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Peace

3:26PM - 1st panorama attempt - Edinburgh from Blackford hill

My first attempt at a panorama. Edinburgh from Blackford Hill.

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15 shots with 400D and 18-55 at 33mm, 1/250 at f/8; panorama made with autostitch. Turned out surprisingly well with a light tripod on a windy day.

1:17PM - Winter Camp Wash - Arches National Park, Utah 360 degree panorama

©2004 Ed Book
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This December 8,'04 image was exposed on seven frames of Fujichrome Velvia 50 ISO film in a tripod mounted Nikon F4s camera, scanned with a Nikon Super Coolscan LS-5000 film scanner, panorama stitching with no adjustments with PhotoShop CS3 Photomerge tool, and optimization in Photoshop CS3.

Peace

3:56PM - pano help?

Hi. I've always liked panoramas but until I recently got a digital camera I felt rather intimidated by having to wait until development to see results. Now I'm beginning to play around.

In my most recent pano (my third, taken today) I noticed that the horizon is... wonky. It's kind of cool, but I'd like to know why it's doing that and thought maybe the folks of this community could help. By the way, you all produce some amazing images. You can click on the thumbnail below to see a larger version.


Still, it's alot better than my first pano, where I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.

2:50PM - Puyallup Ridge Lookout ski trail Mount Tahoma Trails

©2006 Ed Book

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I made this crude panorama from about twenty exposures with the Photoshop photomerge command . I'm a volunteer for Mount Tahoma Trails Association and was grooming the xc-ski trail out to the Puyallup Ridge Lookout and when I got to this point, I couldn't continue because of the deep drifts. We had to let the snow consolidate a few days before we could get the large tracked groomer past this point. The snow was about three feet deep but the drifts here on the ridge piled up much deeper.

Mount Rainier is in the clouds beyond the ridge that has the logging roads coursing across it.


Peace

8:43AM - Top of the world

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12:27AM - Anderson Cove Preserve forest

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I went for a walk at a new preserve near my home yesterday and made this PhotoHoop in 16 exposures.

Peace

9:52AM

Carter Creek, Ashley National Forest, Utah.

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GPS:
About 100 yards upstream
40°,50.967' North
-109°45.957' West

10:57PM - Steamy Thermal Wonderland

Here goes my second attempt at an offering for this community... photo(s) taken in the middle of the Hell's Gate geothermal area, near Rotorua, New Zealand.

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5:06PM - 67 degrees north / 34 degrees east

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X-posted to miltonmalone

10:59AM - Pawnee National Grasslands, Colorado.

Sunset in the Pawnee National Grasslands, Colorado.

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(I had some problems matching exposure as the sun was setting, causing the light to change rapidly.)

6:11PM - Shipbuilding hoop-photo

I stumbled upon this community this afternoon... and the concept delights me. In the spirit of "It doesn't have to be well executed or well stitched to be interesting", I stopped to shoot 360degrees worth of photos on the way home from work this evening. No tripod, and at the location I selected no time to be slow and steady or calculating in blocking off the images. Guerrilla hoop photography... the sunflare adds to the "artistic" sense of careless urgency, right?

View from the middle of the gate of one of the largest drydocks in the world (unflodded drydock on one side of the gate, harbor on the other side),

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Next time I will try to be more attentive to composition, to manually controling the exposure so it is consistent throughout, and to shooting a level series of frames (the source of the empty space at the extreme upper left of the image), now where'd I put that tripod... This was a fun first offering.

9:13AM - First timer. :)

Well folks, here it is. My very first, and very bad, photohoop. I suspect they will start to look better once I master the manual settings on my camera. And use my tripod. ...And if I shoot on a less windy day. :)

But, here goes:


The University of Illinois Quad during Summer Session




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9:03AM

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Another photohoop of an area near Elephant Canyon.

Needles District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

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1:26PM

Elephant Canyon, Needles District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

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Scale: Find the person camping in this photo.

12:00PM - Helpful hints

I thought I would distill all that I have learned about making photohoops here in a single post, hoping it will help others and perhaps make this community a little more active ;-)

( Suggestions, not rules )

9:40PM - Eureka Valley

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Peace

12:12AM - A View from Everest (apod)

Photohoop by Roddy Mackenzie: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050306.html