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Hanauma Bay by Richard Palmer

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Richard Palmer Apapane
Explore score
172
Size
5.63 Gigapixels
Views
822440
Date added
May 19, 2008
Date taken
May 19, 2008
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Go to http://share.gigapan.org/viewProfile.php?userid=319 to view my user page and more of my panoramas.
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This is the same Hanauma Bay panorama as http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=4450. It's 70 columns X 25 rows of individual 8 megapixel frames stitched almost seamlessly by the GigaPan stitcher. Wave movement and people movement result in some interesting, often fun, stitching results, though.

Mahalo nui loa to Scott Telstad for fixing the exposure anomalies on the fully stitched image.

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GigaPan Comments (20)

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  1. Saraandy

    sara andy (August 01, 2011, 10:34AM)

    This serious eye candy! http://go4download.com/HP-LaserJet- 1010-drivers

  2. ind1g0

    ind1g0 (May 06, 2010, 06:45AM)

    Great Job!

  3. triopetra

    triopetra akoumiani (June 24, 2009, 03:06AM)

    http://triopetra.tk/ super

  4. Apapane

    Richard Palmer (April 30, 2009, 10:50PM)

    Floris, I hope you try to take a 1750 frame (at ~650mm) gigapan of a major tourist destination and NOT have any movement, be it waves, people, or clouds. You don't have to like it - just understand the conditions under which the panorama was taken, EARLY in the Beta phase, too. I took it SPECIFICALLY to push the limits of the stitcher so that the GigaPan Team could improve their program. I paused the GigaPan unit on many occassions, but too many people were passing through - but, that's just part of the process, and the fun.

  5. floris

    floris van der zwan (April 30, 2009, 02:20PM)

    Hi, i know all comments seem to love this. I think it's awfull. the foreground is a mishmash of mediocre stiches. Tons of errors and ghosts. Sorry, not impressed.

  6. Apapane

    Richard Palmer (November 27, 2008, 04:21PM)

    Paul, The image was stitched using the dedicated GigaPan stitcher. If you took your panorama with the GigaPan camera mount, then it should stitch just fine using the GigaPan stitcher. So far, after much experimentation with other software, it's the only program capable of stitching large areas of sky, or other solid color. If you use a tripod/manual pano-head combo, or shoot hand held, good luck. AutoPano Pro V2.0, due out, hopefully, by the new year, should be able to accomodate large areas of sky/solid color. In the meantime, you might try Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) - it's a free download, or the photo-merge capability of PhotoShop CS3. Also, try looking at the AutoPano Pro forum, and, if you have the GigaPan unit, the GigaPan forum; you might find more help at one of those venues. The Comments section on individual gigapans is not the place for this kind of discussion. That said, I hope one of my suggestions bears fruit for you. Aloha, Richard

  7. gigapan217

    paul bruneau (November 27, 2008, 03:55PM)

    i would like to know what program you used to stitch the image please. because im trying to sitch an image but there are pictures that are only sky and i havnt been able to find a program that can handle it. thank you

  8. Apapane

    Richard Palmer (November 26, 2008, 08:49PM)

    Paul, Please elaborate on your question. Do you want to know what program was used to stitch the image, or what program was used to take out the banding?

  9. gigapan217

    paul bruneau (November 26, 2008, 04:46PM)

    does any body know what program he used (or program i should use)??? i have full sky pics so i need to be able interactively move the images thanks

  10. Apapane

    Richard Palmer (October 03, 2008, 10:19AM)

    Eric, I use 8 & 16 Gigabyte SDHC cards with my Canon S5-IS, and save the images at the highest resolution .jpg, since this camera does not support RAW images. This panorama filled one 8 GB card. The gigapan was stitched at the Carnegie Mellon University research lab at the NASA center in Mountain View, California. Judging from some of my other gigapans, the stitching took at least 18 hours.

  11. darkdiver

    eric condette (October 03, 2008, 01:40AM)

    Hey folks, i want to know what kind of Memorycard you have used to realise such kind of image with 75x25 8 Mpixel images? And maybe you can tell me how long the stiching prozess have taken? I hope i get my GiganPan next Week Best regards from Germany Eric

  12. Apapane

    Richard Palmer (August 31, 2008, 01:12AM)

    Scott Telstad, an intern at CMU West/NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA, used PhotoShop to remove the banding on the fully stitched, 5.92 gigapixel image. He then cropped it to the current 5.63 Gigapixels. BTW, the fofs tag stands for "Fine Outreach for Science", a grant to CMU given by the Fine Family Foundation of Pittsburgh for the initial beta testing of the GigaPan by scientists using the unit in the field. I was lucky enough to have been selected as one of the first seven recipients of the GigaPan unit.

  13. mordani

    Rohit Mordani (August 31, 2008, 12:47AM)

    AWesome - 5.63 gigapixels made my jaw drop to the ground !! Good job - how did you guys fix the different exposures issue?

  14. payam195r

    Payam Rahmani (May 29, 2008, 09:30AM)

    What "fofs" mean? (your tag)

  15. Rich

    Rich Gibson (May 21, 2008, 12:24PM)

    I also want to know how you cleaned up the exposure differences! I think cleaning up my images before stitching is my next big gigapan frontier.

  16. Apapane

    Richard Palmer (May 21, 2008, 06:20AM)

    This panorama is 25 rows x 70 columns. I used the Canon Powershot S5-IS at full zoom plus the 1.5X tele-extender. The entire image took nearly 2 hours to shoot. There were lots of fun conversations with Hanauma Bay visitors, though. :^)

  17. kruegerson

    Markus Krueger (May 20, 2008, 09:37PM)

    wow, very impressive! How many images did you take to get such a high res??

  18. illah

    Illah Nourbakhsh (May 20, 2008, 10:02AM)

    I want to know how you cleaned this up. Wait, I'll ask you the day after tomorrow!

  19. payam195r

    Payam Rahmani (May 20, 2008, 08:29AM)

    5.63 gigapixels ... SO HUGE :D It's amazing

  20. rschott

    Ron Schott (May 19, 2008, 07:29PM)

    Wow! At first I thought you reshot this Gigapan on a less cloudy day, but then I noticed that you got everyone to pose in exactly the same places, too! Nice job of cleaning up the exposure differences. That must have been a monumental effort. I can't wait to see how you realign the waves in version #3. :-P

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