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London in 360º at Trafalgar Square in front of the National Gallery

Like at FacebookThe Trafalgar Square is a very frequent destiny for the tourist that goes to London. At its centre is Nelson’s Column, which is guarded by four lion statues at its base, among other commemorative statue and sculptures in the square. The name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars over France which took place on 21 October 1805. The present architecture of the square was completed in 1845.

I’ve been there in 2012, 18 days before the Olympic Games and 51 before the Paralympics. The place invites us to stop a little and watch the people that pass by and the architecture around. The National Gallery is just a few steps from the lions. Founded in 1824 it is one of the most important museums in Europe and one of the most known around the world. It houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 and entry to the main collection is free of charge.

Trafalgar Square e National Gallery 360º
Trafalgar Square e National Gallery 360º

Technical Datasheet:

To make this picture I’ve made 3 expositions using Magic Lantern firmware, but at the end I’ve used only one of them. Multiple exposition in a scene with movement is always painful. I decided to generate different expositions from one original, so making a pseudo multiple exposition to increase a little the dynamic range.

See you, Cartola.

Swimming pool in a hostel in Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil

This is one more picture made in Carolina, countryside of Maranhão, northeast Brazil. We were there, just taking some sun at  Pousada do Lajes. Bruno wanted one more time to appear in all the photos I do to make the panorama, and that’s been done. Even having many natural pools, water falls, lakes and other natural attractions, a “normal” pool has also it’s value. For the kids fun is what matters. A beautiful immersive panoramic picture is a good way of keeping this moment in our memories and makes it easy to share our view of the place. I hope you get amused with the blue sky as we did.

Piscina na Pousada do Lajes
Pool at Pousada do Lajes

I just need to remember of recording the sound to create a better environment to the picture.

Other panoramas in Carolina

Carolina - View From Church
View From Church
Kids at the Farm
Kids at the Farm
Itapecuru Falls
Itapecuru Falls
Torre da Lua
Torre da Lua
Square in Carolina
Square in Carolina
Zipline
Zipline

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See you, Cartola.

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.

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.

Workshop at IV GnuGraf

Hi there,

after a month without publishing due to vacation, end of the year and so on, I come back here. The first 2012 panorama is from 2011, as it could be expected. This was made during the workshop on Immersive Panoramas with Opensource Software at the IV GnuGraf, in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. It was on September 11th at UNIRIO, a University in town. The guy standing up and giving instructions is me with a FreeBSD T-shirt from its 10th anniversary in 2003 (ok, it’s an old T-shirt).

It was a Sunday morning, 9AM and it was raining. This made me believe that the 7 students that have shown up were an excellent number of spectators to the meeting. The picture was used to teach how to make a 360×180 degrees panorama. I thought about doing an outdoor image, but the rain made me give up.

There is no special or ordinary beauty in the picture, but it is reasonably well done and is a good souvenir to remember the moment. It was my first class on this subject.

GnuGraf 2011
GnuGraf 2011

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See you, Cartola.

Meeting Some Friends at Cobal do Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This picture is just to remember this moment with some good friends. Those, including me, are people from CAP-UERJ, which was our school from 1983 to 1989 and for some since 1979. In fact this is just a small group from there. We have a mailing list with about 120 people.

This time I asked people to look at the camera, so I wouldn’t hear those female complaining about taking them in a not adequated position.

Encontro com pessoal do CAP na Cobal
Meeting People from CAP at Cobal in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Technical datasheet:

The photo itself is not very good. Maybe I should have increased the ISO and used a noise reduction filter then. Surely if I have used RAW it would have helped too. The stitching didn’t worked very well and I had to make some post editing to join some lines, mainly on the nadir view, not only to remove the tripod.

See you, Cartola.

Latinoware 2011 in 360 degrees

Hi fellows,

these are two panoramic pictures I made in Latinoware 2011. The first one was made on october 20th, 2011 at the Zabbix speech. The second one was on the 21st during the panoramic photography workshop I did. I liked very much the workshop and I hope the students also liked. Hope we can have some more 360 photographers after that and maybe some more people to colaborate with the free software. The Zabbix speech was made by Alexei Vladisevs, its creator. For those who doesn’t know, Zabbix is a free software used to monitor computers and networks. Take a look at its site: http://www.zabbix.com/

Latinoware 2011 - Palestra Zabbix
Latinoware 2011 - Zabbix Speech

Latinoware 2011 - Aula Foto Panorâmica
Latinoware 2011 - Workshop on Panoramic Photography

Some pictures of the workshop

Foto do curso Foto do curso

Click on the images to see others and also on bigger format. Pictures by Jean from Saga Fotografia.

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First 360 degrees panorama – Zabbix Speech

Second 360 degrees panorama – Panoramic Photography Workshop

On this second image I didn’t make a nadir picture without the tripod. As the nadir had only grass it was easy to take the tripod off with the clone tool using GIMP.

See you, Cartola.

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