This image is from the March page of my 2019 calender. It shows the Black Forest near Titisee-Neustadt.
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Trees in the Black Forest
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Tag: Hand Held
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Visiting the Wartburg
This image is from the February page of my 2019 calender. It shows the Wartburg near Eisenach, a famous german castle.
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Winter impression of Bavaria
Visiting Berlin…
This image shows the title page of my 2019 calendar. It was taken in Berlin.
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View from the tower of Burg Eppstein
This spherical panorama shows the view from the tower of Burg Eppstein.
Technique:
The shooting was done from top of a tower to reach a more elevated viewpoint. Stitched from 13 images taken with a Walimex (Samyang) 7.5mm fish eye lens on a Sony ILCE-QX1.
Europaturm
This image shows the Europaturm, a 337.5-metre (1,107 ft) high telecommunications tower in Frankfurt am Main.
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View from the SkyPod of CN Tower
With a height of 553.33 m (1,815.4 ft) the CN Tower is currently (June 2016) the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The upper observation deck is located in the so called SkyPod, which is 447 m (1,467 ft) above ground. With an elevation of 447 m (1,467 ft) above ground this sphere is currently one of a kind in my portfolio, as I have never done a tower shot this high. It’s also unique in two other aspects. To date it’s the sphere with the highest resolution (32 k x 16 k pixel) and with the longest retouching time (about 20 hours to get everything perfect).
Technique:
The final panorama consists of two hemispheres. The lower hemisphere, which was taken from the aforementioned SkyPod and the upper half which was taken from another spherical, which I took some years ago. These two hemispheres were blended together with Pano2VR and Photoshop. The 36 images for the lower hemisphere were taken in two rows.
Court House Courtyard
This panorama has been shot handheld with the innovative Sony ILCE-QX1 ‘camera’. I took one image in each cardinal direction and an extra shot for zenith and nadir. I held the camera obove my head to reach a higher view point and released using my smart phone. For a more detailed description of the setup see this post from PanoTwin Jürgen.
The maximum equirectangular panorama size of this setup is about 10000×5000 pixel according to PTGui. However the one you see below has been downsized to 6000×3000 pixel before publishing it on Google Views.
View from Goetheturm
The tower is a 43-metre high construction which was built entirely out of wood. It was renovated from 2010 – 2014 and was reopened April 11, 2014 for the public.
Technique
Stitched from eight images taken with a Walimex (Samyang) 8mm fish eye lens on a Sony A7. Handheld from the viewing plattform of the tower. I took an image approx. every 45°. I had to do some serious retouching in the sky and I had to create the roof of the tower as I was standing underneath and not above…
Skyline of Frankfurt am Main on a sunny day in August 2014
This panorama was stitched from twenty images in landscape orientation. The resulting panorama is 15887 x 11915 pixels.
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