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Wonderful Plateaus in Torre da Lua, Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil

Carolina in Maranhão, Brazil, is full of natural beauties. This is the third picture I have made there and at this time you can see the wonderful view of the plateaus seen from Torre da Lua, the name of the plateau we were in. We went there following the local guide from the tourism company Torre da Lua Ecoturismo. Who likes adventure will surely love that.

Some aspects that I recommend you don’t miss on the picture:

  • The effect on the sun. Try looking at it.
  • The Little Planet view. Turn the picture into Little Planet and interact with it. Click on the globe button to toggle to Little Planet view.
Torre da Lua
View from Torre da Lua

Other panoramas from Carolina

Carolina - View From Church
View from church
Boys at the Farm
Boys at the farm
Itapecuru Falls
Itapecuru Falls

Technical Datasheet:

The picture achieved a good dynamic range. We can see reasonably well people on the shadows. The sky might not be so good for everybody, but I have already spent some time on it. Sometimes it is harder to work on a clear sky than on a cloudy one. This is the first 360 panoramic image that I publish made with my newer Sigma 10-20mm lens. Good result.

See you, Cartola.

Family meeting at home

This meeting was on last July 3rd to celebrate Bruno’s birthday. He is my older kid. We joined the family and some closer friends and I did one more 360 panoramic picture to register the moment. This kind of picture is really very nice to feel the ambiance of the place. It is almost like if you were there, possibly that is why they call it “Immersive Picture” 🙂

During the Meeting

Technical Datasheet:

This panorama let me satisfied with two aspects. First I got specially amazed with the very good fit of the lines on the floor at the bottom view (nadir). One can view some color difference, but the lines are pretty continuous and straight. The other thing I liked was the result of the noise reduction. I have used a specific tool for that called Neat Image. The indoor scenes with people moving at night without flash are usually difficult to do. Probably I would have been able to improve image quality if I had already used RAW at that time.

See you, Cartola.

Pablo Lapidusas at National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Hi people,

this is one more 360 picture in a Music at the Museum project. This one was taken last June during a presentation of Pablo Lapidusas, a Brazilian pianist. On this one we can see a beautiful room of the National Museum of Fine Arts, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Please, never mind about the sound quality, cause I recorded it on my cell phone.

Pablo Lapidusas ao Piano no MNBA
Pablo Lapidusas at the Piano in Rio

Technical data sheet:

I liked the final image quality. There are some ghosts due to the combination of 3 expositions with enfuse. Whoever moved turned into a ghost 🙂

See you, Cartola.

Show at Light Cultural Center

During one more daily edition of the Música no Museu (Music at the Museum) project I’ve had the pleasure to see the Yellow Cake band show. The group plays vocal and is formed by four Eletronuclear employees: Carlos Marcondes, Geraldo Pauluzzi, José Ricardo e Luciano Salvador. They have played with the musicians: Alexandre Caldi (­Sax and Flute), Carlos César Motta ­ (Drums), Daniel Drummond (­Bass), Nando Duarte (Electric Guitar) e Raphael Montechiari (Keyboards).

Yellow Cake no CC da Light
Yellow Cake Show at Light

I went there specially to see my childhood friend Alexandre Caldi. Unfortunately the picture hardly shows him, but he is there, I swear. At the end the one that is better shown in the photo is myself 🙂 As the photographer usually doesn’t show in the picture I guess I can do that sometimes 🙂

Technical data sheet:

I liked the flare effects on the final pano.

See you, Cartola.

FISL 12 – International Free Software Conference – Porto Alegre, Brazil – 2011 – Pan#3

FISL 12 – Central Events Square

This is one more pano from FISL 12 in 2011. This time I show you a picture from the central square where were the expositors at the conference. I have shoot 5 panoramas at FISL 12, so there are 2 more for me to mount. In this one I had my friend Mônica helping me as a model to make the picture nicer 🙂 Thanks Mônica! Although it is not an outdoor picture I liked very much the initial little planet format in the starting animation. You can click with the right mouse button to see the picture in other formats, including little planet.

[pano file=”20110729-FISL-Pavilhao/normal01.xml” preview=”http://cartola.org/panoramas/20110729-FISL-Pavilhao/normal03-thumb.jpg” w=”500″ h=”250″]
Central Events Square – FISL 12

See also the other panoramic images I did at FISL 12:

And as usual, for more information about FISL follows their official site link.

Curiosity

The main actress, Monica, is looking forward and making a V signal with her hand. Curiously each of these parts were originally in a separate picture. In fact, believe in it or not, it was not intentional.

Monica Composition
Monica1 + Monica2 = Monica3

Technical data sheet:

This time as I shoot over the red carpet it was not necessary to use an extra nadir picture to remove the tripod image. I really think I need to improve my image quality next time. Maybe I’m gonna stop using so closed apertures like f22.

This time I also used ImageMagick more than I’m used to. I used the “convert” command line utility to change original images color, contrast and brightness.

See you, Cartola.

 

Itaipu Binacional – 360° View of the Dam

One more 360° panoramic picture from last vacation in Foz do Iguaço, at the south of Brazil. There are two kind of tour you can take there. I did the longer one and this image was taken at the first stop we did. You can see the spillway at the left of the dam. It was closed at that time. To see how the dam is big try to give a zoom at the 6 floor building in front of it, more or less in the middle.

You can see more information at their official site and also some very nice photos.

Stay tuned here, because this is only the first of many 360° panoramas I did there.

At the higher step of the ladder it’s possible to see Arides, one of the nice guides on the tour.

CLICK TO SEE THE PANORAMA INTERACTIVELY

Panorama imersivo 360x180 da vista da barragem de Itaipu
Immersive Panorama 360°x180° at Itaipu - Dam View

This picture gave us also a nice little planet version.

Itaipu - Vista da Barragem - Versao Little Planet
Itaipu - Dam View - Little Planet Version

Technical data sheet (of the picture):

See you, Cartola.

Kite and kitesurf at Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In June it is beginning to get a little cold in Rio de Janeiro – at least cold for the people here. In spite of the shiny sun, the strong wind gave us a little cold sensation. When we saw all those kitesurfs we thought about going to the beach to see if our new eagle kite works. Felipe, the younger boy, didn’t like the cold wind and refused to appear in the picture. Bruno was there to hold the kite strongly and don’t let it go away.

CLICK TO SEE THE PANORAMA INTERACTIVELY

Kite and kitesurfs in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Once again the outdoor picture gave me a beautiful little planet image. Job done, picture taken and we left the beach. Hope you all enjoy as we did. This picture is now at the wall in the boys’ room.

Little Planet in Leblon from the panorama 360

Technical data sheet:

See you, Cartola.

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