Panoramas are up!

Darkphibre

Some are a bit fuzzy, but here's my annual Panorama lineup. I'm also trying out a new Microsoft technology called HDView as a viewer (in addition to posting the traditional flat-projection jpegs.

This year I nearly doubled the photos taken to around 3500. It took two vacation days (and nights) to process them all, and another three nights to process the panoramas. I was the guy walking around with a second flash and a tripod, taking pictures of everything. Hope you guys like them!

Flickr set of top 500.
Flickr set of top 170.
Website of best 2000.
Panoramas.

Of particular note were:



The 72 megapixel view of the Pink Godzilla expensive display case.


A 42 megapixel stitch of the Friday Night Crowd (thank you Enforcer!).


I was granted access to the HeroClix Scarab, and made a high-definition stitch of it.


Same with the Big Daddy.

The OneUps, Optimus Rhyme, Freezepop, Neskimos, Coulton, Frontalot, and Minibosses

And lots, lots more!

Like my absolute favorite...


Nice to see you all! Enjoy!

-Tom


Waving DSes at the Coulton concert

BigRed

That HD-View thing owns my face.

Awesome pics

bombardier

Holy poop these are impressive. Well done, sir.

Big Guy

you.are.amazing.

Crit_Fail

All hail... er... you.

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This would be less awkward if you were willing to change your name to Ball. ;-]

Fantastic work on the panoramas!

Thello

Nice work.

I never stopped by Pink Godzilla's booth, but from these pictures, dear lord are they ever a rip-off. $275 for Suikoden II? An opened copy is maybe $150. They must make a killing regurgitating junk they bought off eBay.

Darkphibre

Thanks everyone for the awesome compliments! Always makes me happy to know that someone actually looks at my work.

BigRed

what camera/lens were you using?

apotheos

"Sorry the HD View Beta is not supported on this platform. Must be Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Server 2003, or Vista."

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Darkphibre

apotheos wrote: »

"Sorry the HD View Beta is not supported on this platform. Must be Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Server 2003, or Vista."

Well, it is a Microsoft product. That said, they added Firefox support this month. As I mention on the page, I'll be figuring out how the scripts changed this weekend so Firefox people can view it in our browser of choice. For Apple/Linux/GeOS/BeOS/OS-2/AmigaOS/etc folks, I still uploaded all the flat projections. ;-)

Fun fact: I had to upload over 1GB of data for the panorama folder.

Blain

Great stuff Darkphibre. I took my camera, but having just come off a photo intensive vacation and not wanting to block traffic (and not being able to take decent low light pictures), almost never touched it. Thanks for doing this, and posting it. Heh. We almost need the "everybody's flickr sets" thread, don't we? Or do we already.

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Chizzer

Oh man, awesome pics. Being at the concert and seeing hundreds of people holding up DS's, phones, and other handhelds... wow!

Darkphibre

Blain wrote: »

Great stuff Darkphibre. <snip> We almost need the "everybody's flickr sets" thread, don't we? Or do we already.

Yup, it's here. I posted my pics there, but I also post a top-level thread when my panoramas go up.

BigRed wrote:

what camera/lens were you using?

The lenses I was using were:

• Canon 10-22 (borrowed)
• Sigma 19-35
• Canon 28-80
• Canon 50 prime
• Canon IS 75-300

I used the 19 & the 10 for the panoramas.

Thanks all!

zombiebot

Wow, these are awesome photos! And you got some of the Jenga round!

Also love the concert pictures. Great shots. Were you on the stage at all?

Darkphibre

zombiebot wrote: »

Wow, these are awesome photos! And you got some of the Jenga round!

Also love the concert pictures. Great shots. Were you on the stage at all?

Thanks! Yeah, that final 1-hour round was crazy. Since my fully-fitted camera weighs over 8 lbs, I finally had to setup a tripod so that I could capture the fall. My arms were tired! :P

As far as the concert, no, that was another fellow (for MC Frontalot) and Kiko. I stood right next to the stage. Sometimes I wish I could be on stage... but really, the artists are look out at the throng of people, so the pictures wouldn't be very good.

I adjusted the curves on your photo, so it's a bit brighter (the 2nd flash wasn't reaching your table very well).