360° Immersive Birthday Meeting

Hi folks,

this one comes with a big delay. The birthday meeting has been in August 2011. Guess who is celebrating? The hostess Valéria has achieved Bruno’s record and has shown herself 8 times in the picture.

360° Panoramic Birthday

Technical data sheet:

People got too close to each other at this picture. It has made the stitching a little difficult. Most of the joining job has been made in GIMP. In a group like that, where there is people in almost all the horizontal field of view, it is maybe necessary to do a more intensive direction job to guide people’s position and avoid hours and hours of post edition.

See you, Cartola.

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro – 2012

Hi folks,

during Rio de Janeiro Carnival you can follow more than 180 groups in only one weekend. The groups are usually called “blocos” that I guess can be translated to block in English. Last February 12th I went to photograph a block called Vira Lata. I put a pole over the truck to shoot the crowd following the group. You can see the panoramic picture to listen to their sound.

Bloco Vira Lata - Leblon - RJ - 2012
Vira Lata Block - Leblon - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 2012

Technical datasheet:

This time I have used a new adapter to hold the pole. It was simply an aluminum bar over which I put my foot to keep the pole fixed. The truck was shaking very much and it made the stitching very complicated and mainly on the nadir view the immersive panorama needed a lot of post edition in GIMP. Besides that there was the expected difficulty of joining pictures of moving people. It is easy to find some people without head and some other body parts apart.

See you, Cartola.

Republic Museum Gardens at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In this immersive panorama we can see a group of friends from Trilharte in a photographic meeting at “Museu da República” (Republic Museum) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The museum is installed in the old Palácio Nova Friburgo (New Friburg Palace), also known as Palácio das Águias (Eagles Palace). Nowadays it is called Palácio do Catete. Built between 1858 and 1867 it has been the headquarters of Brazilian Republican government during 64 years. 18 presidents have used its installations. Juscelino Kubitschek has finished the presidential age of the place, with the transfer of the federal government to Brasília in 1960. The presidential room has been where the president Getúlio Vargas has committed suicide in August, 1954. More information in Portuguese at the Museum’s site.

Republic Museum's Gardens

Technical datasheet:

I still need to increase the pole stability somehow. It has been used at half high in this picture. One of the problems of the way I am using to stabilize it now is that it takes me too much time. I am using strings from the top until each tripod leg extreme. I need to put strength to each rope little by little in order not to bend the pole. I am thinking of some kind of gear to pull the three strings together.

See you, Cartola.

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