Tag: Monopod Shot

Turf church Hofskirkja (Iceland)

The church was built in 1884, and was the last turf church built in the old style. It is one of six churches still standing, which are preserved as historical monuments. The church is maintained by the National Museum but also serves as a parish church.

This is my contribution for the World Wide Panorama (WWP) event titled heritage.


View this panorama on 360cities.net.

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On the summer stage in Kronberg

I used a monopod extended to about 1,5 m (5 ft). I tried to take the images from the center of the stage in order to get a symmetrical image for the reprojection.

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Reprojected Three Green Stripes (Making Of)

In this article I try to explain the steps, that were necessary to get the result I presented in the previous post. The consecutive steps are explained below and a preview of the result is shown twice. The first one is the original image, the second one a coloured chequered artificial image.

  1. I decided to make a panorama from inside a tripartite pillar. The exact pillar is shown on the image below.
    Three Green Stripes Panorama Location
  2. I used my usual workflow and took three images for each direction. Furthermore I made a zenith and nadir shot. I used the Sigma 8mm F4 fisheye lens on a Sony Alpha 700 and shot RAW images. Postprocessing was made with Bibble 5 Pro.
    Three Green Stripes Raw Images
  3. I stitched the images into an equirectangular image using PTGui Pro. The final panorama was 8000×4000 pixels in size.
    Three Green Stripes EquirectangularColoured Chequered Equirectangular
  4. This equirectangular image was reprojected using again PTGui Pro using a stereographic projection with a field of view of 333° and a pitch angle of 90°. The result is the following image. The original image had a size of 5550×5550 pixel.
    Three Green Strips Cloverleaf ProjectionColoured Chequered Cloverleaf Projection
  5. For  a Droste spiral effect I had in mind you need a somehow circular masked image. I’ve chosen to mask the “leafes” and scale the image down to 4000×4000 pixel. The result was the following image :
    Three Green Stripes Cloverleaf Projection MaskedColoured Chequered Cloverleaf Projection Masked
  6. The last step in the transformation process was again a reprojection applying the Droste effect using the Pixel Bender Toolkit. You find the Pixel Bender filter and an introduction into the Droste effect in this post. The basic parameters for the Droste filter were: strandMirror: yes; transparentInside: yes; transparentOutside: yes; twist: yes; periodicity: 3; strands: 2. I played around with the rest of the parameters until I was satisfied with the result.
    Three Green Stripes Droste ReprojectionColoured Chequered Droste Spiral

Reprojected Three Green Stripes

These images show reprojected versions of this panorama. The tram station “Münchner Freiheit” has a futuristic roof built of white steel, painted green on the inside of the three part pillars. The initial panorama for these reprojections was made inside one of these structures.


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