What is a Gigapixel 360 photo? It is a 360 degree photo made up of over 1 billion pixels (that is 1 000 000 000 pixels! ). A standard SLR camera take 10 megapixels or 20 megapixels (20 million pixels), but by taking a lot of photos and stitching them together in a mosaic, it is possible to create photos of over 1 billion pixels!
This gigapixel panoramic photo I took last week of the Union Buildings, is made up of 925million pixels (almost 1 gigapixel). Created by shooting and stitching together 120 photos. 5 rows each with 24 photos around were taken, and stitched together.
Here is a wide angle view:
And here is a few of the details you can find when you zoom in closer:
Then zoom in a bit more!!
Click on the pictures above to view the interactive Gigapixel panorama!
We joined professional wedding and model photographer Morne Olivier and his wife Nicola on a beach model shoot. The idea was to create a 360 degree view of what a typical beach photo shoot would look like, while Morne creates some great images.
Photography on the beach has its own unique set of challengers for the photographer, and for the model. As usual, this starts with good lighting. Here the rising sun is beating down on the model from behind, leaving her face and body in her own shade. The flash light, as well as reflector, light the model, and create dynamic looking light. Below find some of the photos Morne made on this beach photo shoot.
Based in Pretoria, ExecuRide Limousines offers a limo service for the Pretoria and Centurion area, and we recently created this Virtual Tour showing the inside of the limos. Read more »
Lunar eclipse on 15 June 2011 - click to view larger
The moon is not the easiest thing to photograph, as anyone who has tried well knows. It is very far away, and moves very quickly. We took up the challenge to try to photograph the moon during the lunar eclipse on 15 June. As the shadow of the earth moves over the moon, it darkens the moon, and turns it a red colour, as seen above.
Tech specs: Shot with a 400mm lens with 2x converter on a cropped body (effectively 1280mm).
The Mata-Mata Rest Camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (previously the Gemsbok National Park), has been upgraded and renovated. The new river front chalets offer wide views over the Auob river bed. Read more »
